1923 IN FILM

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Films released in 1923

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Events

★ April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.

Top grossing films

#''The Covered Wagon''

Films released in 1923

★ ''The Covered Wagon''

★ ''The Daring Years'', starring Mildred Harris, Charles Emmett Mack and Clara Bow

★ ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', starring Lon Chaney

★ ''The Lights of London''

★ ''Our Hospitality'', directed by and starring Buster Keaton

★ ''The Purple Highway'', starring Madge Kennedy, Monte Blue, Vincent Coleman and Pedro de Cordoba

★ ''Safety Last!'', starring Harold Lloyd. In one scene, Lloyd is seen climbing around and hanging off the side of a tall building, including a very famous scene where he hangs off a clock. Lloyd did all of his own stunts, and worked without a safety net.

★ ''Salomé'', starring Alla Nazimova; directed by Charles Bryant

★ ''Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination'' (aka ''Warning Shadows''), directed by Arthur Robison

★ ''Scaramouche (1923 film)'' Staring Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Ingraham

★ ''Souls for Sale'', starring Richard Dix and Eleanor Boardman

★ ''Die Straße'' (''The Street''), directed by Karl Grune

★ ''The Ten Commandments'', starring Theodore Roberts; directed by Cecil B. DeMille

★ ''Why Worry?'', starring Harold Lloyd

★ ''A Woman of Paris'', starring Edna Purviance; directed by Charles Chaplin

Short film series

★ ''Charlie Chaplin'' (1914-1923)

★ ''Buster Keaton'' (1917-1941)

★ ''Laurel and Hardy'' (1921-1943)

★ ''Our Gang'' (1922-1944)

Animated short film series

★ ''Felix the Cat'' (1919-1930)

★ ''Koko the Clown'' (1919-1934)

★ ''Aesop's Film Fables'' (1921-1934)

★ ''The Red Head Comedies'' (1923).

Births

★ January 7 - Pinkas Braun, actor, director

★ January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan, actress (d. 1992)

★ January 19 - Jean Stapleton, actress

★ January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky writer (d. 1981)

★ February 2 - Bonita Granville, actress (d. 1988)

★ February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, director

★ February 21 – Lola Flores, actress (d. 1995)

★ February 28 - Charles Durning, actor

★ April 12 - Ann Miller, dancer, actress (d. 2004)

★ May 7 - Anne Baxter, actress (d. 1985)

★ July 22 - Mukesh, singer (d. 1976)

★ August 3 - Jean Hagen, actress (d. 1977)

★ August 10 - Rhonda Fleming, actress

★ August 29 - Richard Attenborough, English actor and director

★ September 7 - Peter Lawford, actor (d. 1984)

★ October 5 - Glynis Johns, actress

★ October 16 - Linda Darnell, actress (d. 1965)

★ November 9 - Dorothy Dandridge, singer, actress (d. 1965)

★ November 28 - Gloria Grahame, actress (d. 1981)

Deaths

★ January 18 – Wallace Reid American actor

★ March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress

★ November 30 - Martha Mansfield, American actress