1919 in film

Events

• February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists
• Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader, becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture.

Top Grossing Films of the Year

Movies Released

• Back Stage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Blind Husbands, directed by Erich von Stroheim.
• Broken Blossoms starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess; directed by D.W. Griffith.
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt.
• Daddy-Long-Legs, starring Mary Pickford.
• A Day's Pleasure, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Homesteader
• Madame DuBarry, starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings.
• Male and Female, starring Gloria Swanson; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
• The Garage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Shackleton's Expedition to the Antarctic (documentary)
• Sunnyside, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• True Heart Susie, starring Lillian Gish.

Births

• January 1 - Carole Landis, actress (+1948)
• January 13 - Robert Stack, actor (+2003)
• February 5 - Red Buttons, actor
• February 11 - Eva Gabor, actress
• February 18 - Jack Palance, actor
• March 2 - Jennifer Jones, actress
• June 29 - Slim Pickens, actor
• July 7 - Jon Pertwee, actor (+1996)

Deaths

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