1914 IN FILM

The year '1914 in film' involved some significant events.
__TOC__

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Films released in 1914

Short film series

Births

Deaths

Events

★ The 3,300-seat ''Strand Theater'' opens in New York City.

★ February 2 - Charlie Chaplin's first film, ''Making a Living'' is released.

★ May 8 - Paramount Pictures is formed.

★ Filteo Alberini introduces a new 70 mm format, Panoramico, with the film ''Il sacco di Roma''

Top grossing films

★ ''The Squaw Man''

★ ''Tillie's Punctured Romance''

Films released in 1914

★ ''A Little Madonna''

★ ''Assunta Spina''

★ ''The Avenging Conscience''

★ ''The Aztec Treasure''

★ ''A Bathing Beauty''

★ ''Cabiria''

★ ''Child of the Big City''

★ ''The Exploits of Elaine''

★ ''Gertie the Dinosaur'', animated

★ ''The Hazards of Helen'', (serial) starring Helen Holmes

★ ''The Magic Cloak of Oz'', starring Mildred Harris

★ ''His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz'', starring Mildred Harris

★ ''In the Land of the War Canoes''

★ ''Judith of Bethulia''

★ ''Kid Auto Races at Venice''

★ ''Mabel at the Wheel''

★ ''Mabel's Strange Predicament''

★ ''Making a Living''

★ ''My Official Wife'', starring Clara Kimball Young

★ ''O Mimi San'', starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Mildred Harris

★ ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'', starring Mildred Harris

★ ''The Perils of Pauline'', (serial) starring Pearl White

★ ''Il sacco di Roma''

★ ''The Squaw Man'', starring Dustin Farnum

★ ''A Study in Scarlet'' directed by George Pearson

★ ''Tillie's Punctured Romance'', directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin

★ ''The Wishing Ring''

★ ''The Wrath of Gods'', starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Frank Borzage

Short film series

★ ''Broncho Billy Anderson'' (1910-1916)

★ ''Harold Lloyd'' (1913-1921)

★ ''Charlie Chaplin'' (1914-1923)

Births

★ January 4 - Jane Wyman, actress

★ January 5 - George Reeves, actor (d. 1959)

★ January 6 - Danny Thomas, singer, actor, comedian (d. 1991)

★ January 14 - Harold Russell, actor (d. 2002)

★ January 30 - John Ireland, actor (d. 1992)

★ February 9 - Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque performer, actress, writer (d. 1970)

★ February 24 - Zachary Scott, actor (d. 1965)

★ February 26 - Robert Alda, actor (d. 1986)

★ March 2 - Martin Ritt, director (d. 1990)

★ April 2 - Alec Guinness, actor (d. 2000)

★ April 4 - Rosemary Lane, singer, actress (d. 1974)

★ April 16 - John Hodiak, actor (d. 1955)

★ May 24 - Lilli Palmer, actress (d. 1986)

★ June 7 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director (d. 1987)

★ June 18 - E. G. Marshall, actor (d. 1998)

★ August 2 - Beatrice Straight, actress (d. 2001)

★ August 14 - Andrea Leeds, actress (d. 1984)

★ August 31 - Richard Basehart - actor (d. 1984)

★ September 10 - Robert Wise, director (d. 2005)

★ September 12 - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)

★ October 26 - Jackie Coogan, actor (d. 1984)

★ October 30 - Ruth Hussey, actress (d. 2005)

★ December 10 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (d. 1996)

★ December 13 - Larry Parks, actor (d. 1975)

★ December 26 - Richard Widmark, actor

★ December 30 - Jo Van Fleet, actress (d. 1996)

Deaths

★ (unknown)