Overview of the events of 1923 in film
This is an overview of1923 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
[ edit ] The top eight films released in 1923 by U.S. gross are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1923 Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals 1 The Ten Commandments Paramount $4,169,798[ 1] 2 The Covered Wagon $3,500,000[ 2] 3 Safety Last! The Hunchback of Notre Dame Pathé Exchange Universal $1,500,000[ 2] 4 Scaramouche Metro $1,000,000[ 3] 5 Adam's Rib Paramount $881,206[ 1] 6 Main Street Warner Bros. $510,000[ 4] 7 The Gold Diggers $470,000[ 4] 8 Tiger Rose $466,000[ 4]
Notable films released in 1923 [ edit ] American films unless stated otherwise
The Balloonatic Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starringBuster Keaton Barsoum Looking for a Job Bishara Wakim – (Egypt )The Bells , directed byEdwin Greenwood , based on the 1867 playThe Polish Jew Erckmann-Chatrian [ 5] GB )The Bishop of the Ozarks Finis Fox [ 5] Black Oxen Frank Lloyd , starringCorinne Griffith The Blizzard Mauritz Stiller – (Sweden )Blood and Soul (Chi to Rei) , directed byKenji Mizoguchi [ 5] Japan )The Blue Lagoon Dick Cruikshanks , starringMolly Adair andArthur Pusey - (GB /South Africa )Bonnie Prince Charlie Charles Calvert , starringIvor Novello andGladys Cooper – (GB )The Brass Bottle Maurice Tourneur The Lady Owner Walter West – (GB )The Last Moment Henry Hull ,Doris Kenyon andLouis Wolheim Little Old New York Sidney Olcott , starringMarion Davies The Lost Soul , directed byHugo Werner-Kahle [ 8] Austria )The Love Nest Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starringBuster Keaton The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots Denison Clift , starringFay Compton – (GB )Main Street Harry Beaumont The Man in the Iron Mask (Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske)Max Glass – (Germany )The Merchant of Venice (Der Kaufmann von Venedig)Peter Paul Felner , starringWerner Krauss andHenny Porten – (Germany )Merry-Go-Round Erich von Stroheim , starringMary Philbin andNorman Kerry Miss Suwanna of Siam (Nang Sao Suwan)Henry MacRae The Monkey's Paw Manning Haynes , based on the 1902short story byW. W. Jacobs – (GB )Mysteries of a Barbershop (Mysterien eines Friseursalons)Erich Engel – (Germany )The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu , 15-part serial directed byA. E. Coleby [ 9] GB )Raskolnikow Robert Wiene – (Germany )The Red Inn (L'auberge rouge) , directed byJean Epstein , based on the 1831short story byHonoré de Balzac (remade in 1951)[ 11] France )Red Lights Clarence G. Badger , starringMarie Prevost , based on the playThe Rear Car byEdward Everett Rose [ 12] Le Retour à la Raison (Return to Reason)Man Ray – (France )Rosita Ernst Lubitsch , starringMary Pickford La Roue (The Wheel)Abel Gance – (France )Rupert of Hentzau Victor Heerman Safety Last! Fred C. Newmeyer andSam Taylor , starringHarold Lloyd Salomé Charles Bryant , starringAlla Nazimova Scaramouche Rex Ingram , StarringRamón Novarro ,Alice Terry andLewis Stone Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination (Shadows - a Nocturnal Hallucination)Arthur Robison – (Germany )The Shock Lambert Hillyer , starringLon Chaney The Shriek of Araby F. Richard Jones , starringBen Turpin The Sign of Four Maurice Elvey , starringEille Norwood , based on the 1890novel byArthur Conan Doyle – (GB )Slave of Desire George D. Baker , starringBessie Love , based on the 1831 novelLa Peau de chagrin Honoré de Balzac Souls for Sale Rupert Hughes , starringEleanor Boardman ,Mae Busch andRichard Dix A Spectre Haunts Europe Vladimir Gardin , based on the 1842 short storyThe Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe [ 13] U.S.S.R. )Squibs M.P. George Pearson , starringBetty Balfour – (GB )The Street (Die Straße)Karl Grune – (Germany )Suzanna F. Richard Jones , starringMabel Normand The Ten Commandments Cecil B. DeMille , starringTheodore Roberts This Freedom Denison Clift , starringFay Compton andClive Brook – (GB )Three Ages Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starringBuster Keaton andWallace Beery Three Wise Fools King Vidor Through Fire and Water Thomas Bentley , starringClive Brook andFlora Le Breton – (GB )Tiger Rose Sidney Franklin (director) , starringLenore Ulric The Treasure (Der Schatz)G. W. Pabst – (Germany )Trilby James Young , based on the 1894novel byGeorge du Maurier [ 14] Tut-Tut and his Terrible Tomb , directed byBertram Phillips – (GB )While Paris Sleeps Maurice Tourneur , starringLon Chaney andJohn Gilbert , based on a novelThe Glory of Love by Leslie Beresford[ 15] The White Shadow Graham Cutts , starringBetty Compson andClive Brook – (GB )The White Sister Henry King , starringLillian Gish andRonald Colman Why Worry? Fred C. Newmeyer andSam Taylor , starringHarold Lloyd andJobyna Ralston Wild Bill Hickok William S. Hart Within the Law Frank Lloyd , starringNorma Talmadge A Woman of Paris Charles Chaplin , starringEdna Purviance Woman to Woman Graham Cutts , starringBetty Compson andClive Brook – (GB )Animated short film series [ edit ] January 1 –Valentina Cortese , Italian actress (died2019 ) January 3 -Bud Tingwell , Australian actor (died2009 ) January 5 -Boris Leskin , Soviet-American actor (died2020 ) January 7 –Pinkas Braun , Swiss actor, director (died2008 ) January 8 –Larry Storch , American actor (died2022 ) January 17 -Carol Raye , British-born Australian actress, comedian and singer (died2022 ) January 19 –Jean Stapleton , American actress (died2013 ) January 22 -Diana Douglas , American actress (died2015 ) January 23 –Silvano Campeggi , Italian poster designer (died2018 ) January 26 –Anne Jeffreys , American actress (died2017 ) January 29 –Paddy Chayefsky , American screenwriter (died1981 ) February 2 –Bonita Granville , American actress (died1988 ) February 12 –Franco Zeffirelli , Italian director (died2019 ) February 18 -Allan Melvin , American actor and impressionist (died2008 ) February 21 –Lola Flores , Spanish actress (died1995 ) February 28 –Charles Durning , American actor (died2012 ) March 10 –Dolores Fuller , American actress (died2011 ) March 12 -Vladek Sheybal , Polish character actor, singer and director (died1992 ) March 19 –Pamela Britton , American actress (died1974 ) March 24 -Murray Hamilton , American actor (died1986 ) April 2 –Gloria Henry , American actress (died2021 ) April 4 April 5 -Michael V. Gazzo , American actor (died1995 ) April 6 -Chang Feng , Chinese actor (died2022 ) April 12 –Ann Miller , American dancer, singer, actress (died2004 ) April 13 -Don Adams , American actor, comedian and director (died2005 ) April 17 April 28 –Adele Mara , American actress (died2010 ) April 29 -Irvin Kershner , American director, actor and producer (died2010 ) May 4 –Eric Sykes , British actor and comedian (died2012 ) May 7 –Anne Baxter , actress (died1985 ) May 14 –Mrinal Sen , Bengali director (died2018 ) May 20 –Edith Fellows , American actress (died2011 ) May 26 May 30 -Jimmy Lydon , American actor and producer (died2022 ) June 5 -Peggy Stewart , American actress (died2019 ) June 8 –Peggy Maley , American actress (died2007 ) June 12 –Herta Elviste , Estonian actress (died2015 ) June 18 -Robert Ellenstein , American actor (died2010 ) June 20 -Jerzy Nowak , Polish actor (died2013 ) June 28 -Ray Boyle , American actor (died2022 ) July 6 –Cathy O'Donnell , American actress (died1970 ) July 8 -Val Bettin , American actor (died2021 ) July 14 –Dale Robertson , American actor (died2013 ) July 18 –Michael Medwin , English actor and producer (died2020 ) July 22 –Mukesh , Indian singer (died1976 ) July 25 August 3 –Jean Hagen , American actress (died1977 ) August 9 -John Stephenson , American actor (died 2015) August 10 August 14 –Alice Ghostley , American actress (died2007 ) August 15 –Rose Marie , American actress, singer (died2017 ) August 17 –Julius Harris , American actor (died2004 ) August 24 -June Dayton , American actress (died1994 ) August 28 -Alexander Doré , British actor, director and screenwriter (died2002 ) August 29 –Richard Attenborough , English actor and director (died2014 ) August 31 -Ed Grady , American actor (died2012 ) September 7 –Peter Lawford , British-American actor (died1984 ) September 9 -Cliff Robertson , American actor (died2011 ) September 11 -Betsy Drake , American actress, writer (died2015 ) September 20 -Ricardo Montez , Gibraltarian actor (died2010 ) September 23 September 27 September 28 -William Windom , American actor (died2012 ) October 1 –Kim Yaroshevskaya , Russian-born Canadian actress (died2025 ) October 4 –Charlton Heston , American actor (died2008 ) October 5 –Glynis Johns , British actress (died2024 ) October 10 -Patrick Jordan , British actor (died2020 ) October 16 –Linda Darnell , American actress (died1965 ) October 23 -Frank Sutton , American actor (died1974 ) November 12 -Richard Venture , American actor (died2017 ) November 13 –Linda Christian , Mexican-American actress (died2011 ) November 21 -Helen Horton , American actress (died2007 ) November 28 December 10 –Harold Gould , American actor (died2010 ) December 11 –Betsy Blair , American actress (died2009 ) December 12 -Bob Barker , American television game show host (died2023 ) December 29 January 18 –Wallace Reid , American actor (born 1892) March 3 –Dante Testa , Italian actor and director (born 1861) March 26 –Sarah Bernhardt , French actress (born 1844) May 21 –Charles Kent , veteran actor and director (born 1852) June 11 –Porter Strong , American silent film actor June 17 –Macey Harlam , screen actor (born 1873) July 12 – Harry Lonsdale, stage and screen actor (born 1865) July 30 –Charles Hawtrey , veteran British actor (born 1858) August 29 –Bernard Durning , American actor and director, (born 1893) September 11 –Siegmund Lubin , American motion picture pioneer (born 1851) September 26 –Jerome Patrick , Broadway stage and silent film leading man (born 1883) October 28 –Joe Roberts , American actor (born 1871) November 20 –Allen Holubar , American actor and director (born 1888) November 30 –Martha Mansfield , American actress (born 1899) December 28 –Frank Hayes , American actor and comedian (born 1871) ^a b Birchard, Robert S. 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