1914 in film

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The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.^[1]

Events

• The 3,300-seat Mark Strand Theatre opens in New York City.
• February 2 - Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living is released.
• April 18 - Cabiria
• 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 (U.S.)

Films released in 1914

• A Little Madonna
• A Study in Scarlet dir; George Pearson
• A Bathing Beauty
• Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı, directed by Fuat Uzkınay, considered to be the first Turkish movie - (Ottoman Empire)
• Brewster's Millions
• By the Sun's Rays
• Cabiria
• Child of the Big City
• Cinderella
• Gertie the Dinosaur, animated
• His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, cast; Mildred Harris
• Il sacco di Roma
• In the Land of the Head Hunters
• Judith of Bethulia
• Kid Auto Races at Venice
• Mabel at the Wheel
• Mabel's Blunder
• Mabel's Strange Predicament
• Making a Living
• My Official Wife, starring Clara Kimball Young
• O Mimi San, cast; Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Mildred Harris
• Rose of the Rancho, cast; Bessie Barriscale ^[2]
• Salomy Jane
• The Last Egyptian
• The Avenging Conscience
• The Aztec Treasure
• The Exploits of Elaine
• The Patchwork Girl of Oz
• The Perils of Pauline, (serial) cast; Pearl White
• The Squaw Man, cast; Dustin Farnum ^[1]
• The Million Dollar Mystery, (serial), cast; Florence La Badie
• The Hazards of Helen, (serial) cast; Helen Holmes
• The Magic Cloak of Oz, cast; Mildred Harris
• The Stain, cast; Theda Bara
• The Man from Home
• The Master Mind
• The Only Son
• The Man on the Box
• The Call of the North, cast; Robert Edeson ^[3]
• The Ghost Breaker
• The Virginian, cast; Dustin Farnum ^[4]
• The Wishing Ring
• The Wrath of Gods, cast; Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Frank Borzage
• Tillie's Punctured Romance, dir; Mack Sennett, cast; Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
• What's His Name, cast; Max Figman ^[5]

Short film series

• Broncho Billy Anderson (1910–1916)
• Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)

Births

• January 5 - George Reeves, actor (died 1959)
• January 6 - Danny Thomas, singer, actor, comedian (died 1991)
• January 14 - Harold Russell, actor (died 2002)
• January 30 - John Ireland, actor (died 1992)
• February 24 - Zachary Scott, actor (died 1965)
• February 26 - Robert Alda, actor (died 1986)
• March 2 - Martin Ritt, director (died 1990)
• April 2 - Alec Guinness, actor (died 2000)
• April 4 - Rosemary Lane, singer, actress (died 1974)
• April 16 - John Hodiak, actor (died 1955)
• May 24 - Lilli Palmer, actress (died 1986)
• June 7 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director (died 1987)
• June 18 - E. G. Marshall, actor (died 1998)
• July 31 - Louis de Funès, actor (died 1983)
• August 2 - Beatrice Straight, actress (died 2001)
• August 14 - Andrea Leeds, actress (died 1984)
• August 31 - Richard Basehart - actor (died 1984)
• September 10 - Robert Wise, director (died 2005)
• September 12 - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (died 1999)
• September 20 - Kenneth More English actor
• October 26 - Jackie Coogan, actor (died 1984)
• October 30 - Ruth Hussey, actress (died 2005)
• December 10 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (died 1996)
• December 13 - Larry Parks, actor (died 1975)
• December 26 - Richard Widmark, actor (died 2008)
• December 30 - Jo Van Fleet, actress (died 1996)

Deaths

• January 9 - Gladys Rankin, Mrs. Sidney Drew, American stage & screen actress
• January 11 - William A. Russell, American actor Essanay
• March 25 - Frederic Mistral, French writer
• June 19 - Brandon Thomas, British writer Charley's Aunt
• July 1 - Grace McHugh, American actress died while filming the movie Across The Border
• July 1 - Owen Carter, American cinematographer
• August 21 - Charles J. Hite, President and CEO of Thanhouser Film Corporation
• October 24 - Gustav Wied, Danish Playwright and novelist
• November 14 - Stellan Rye, Danish film director

Film Debuts

• Theda Bara
• Ethel Barrymore
• John Barrymore
• Milton Berle (at 6 years old)
• Charlie Chaplin
• Marguerite Clark
• Hazel Dawn
• Sam De Grasse
• Gaby Deslys
• Oliver Hardy
• William S. Hart
• Sessue Hayakawa
• Emil Jannings
• Thomas Meighan
• Beatriz Michelena
• Musidora
• Pola Negri
• Tyrone Power, Sr.
• Milton Sills
• Gloria Swanson
• Constance Talmadge
• Rudolph Valentino

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