- 1917 in film
The year 1917 in film involved some significant events.
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Events
*Foundation of
Universum Film AG (UƒA), as a propaganda film company, inBerlin .
*Technicolor System 1, a two-color process, is introduced. The first film to use it was "The Gulf Between".
*World's first feature-length animated film is made inArgentina byQuirino Cristiani ("El Apóstol ")
*Movette , another revision of the 17.5 mm film format, is made available.
*Buster Keaton makes his film debut.
*April 25 -Thomas Lincoln Tally , in a meeting in New York, co-founds the First National Exhibitors Circuit. [ [http://www.filmsofthegoldenage.com/foga/1998/winter98/firstnational.shtml Films of the Golden Age] ] [ [http://www.imdb.com/company/co0051651/ First National filmography] ]Top grossing films
#"Cleopatra"
#"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm "
#"The Poor Little Rich Girl "Films released in 1917
*"The Man Without a Country", starring
Florence La Badie
*"The Adventurer", a Charlie Chaplin short.
*"Big Timber"
*"Bucking Broadway ", directed byJohn Ford .
*"The Butcher Boy", a 'Fatty' Arbuckle /Buster Keaton short (Keaton's film debut).
*"Camille", starringTheda Bara
*"Cleopatra", starringTheda Bara
*"Coney Island", a 'Fatty' Arbuckle /Buster Keaton short.
*"The Cure", a Charlie Chaplin short.
*"The Dying Swan", a Russian film aka "Umirayushchii Lebed"
*"Easy Street", starring Charlie Chaplin
*"El Apóstol ", animated byQuirino Cristiani
*"Great Expectations", starringJack Pickford
*"The Gulf Between"
*"His Wedding Night ", a 'Fatty' Arbuckle /Buster Keaton short.
*"Her Right to Live ", starringPeggy Hyland ,Antonio Moreno ,Mae Costello andJohn S. Robertson , directed byPaul Scardon
*"The Immigrant ", starring Charlie Chaplin
*"Joan the Woman ", starringGeraldine Farrar ; directed byCecil B. DeMille
*"The Little American ", starringMary Pickford ; directed byCecil B. DeMille .
*"A Little Princess", starringMary Pickford ,Norman Kerry andZaSu Pitts , directed byMarshall Neilan .
*"Oh Doctor! ", a 'Fatty' Arbuckle /Buster Keaton short.
*"The Poor Little Rich Girl ", starringMary Pickford .
*"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm "
*"A Reckless Romeo ", a 'Fatty' Arbuckle short.
*"The Rough House ", a 'Fatty' Arbuckle /Buster Keaton short.
*"Straight Shooting ", directed byJohn Ford .
*"Teddy at the Throttle ", a Keystone comedy withGloria Swanson .
*"Terje Vigen "
*"Tom Sawyer", starringJack Pickford
*"The Tornado ", directed byJohn Ford (his debut)
*"The Wild Girl ", starringEva Tanguay andThomas J. Moore hort film series
*"
Harold Lloyd " (1913 -1921 )
*"Charlie Chaplin " (1914 -1923
*"Buster Keaton " (1917 -1941 )Births
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January 5 -Jane Wyman , actress (d. 2007)
*January 2 -Vera Zorina , dancer, actress (d. 2003)
*January 10 -Hilde Krahl , actress (d. 1999)
*January 24 -Ernest Borgnine , actor
*February 6 -Zsa Zsa Gabor , actress
*February 21 -Lucille Bremer , actress (d. 1996)
*March 12 -Googie Withers , actress
*March 22 -Virginia Grey , actress (d. 2004)
*April 14 -Valerie Hobson , actress (d. 1998)
*May 1 -Danielle Darrieux , actress
*May 10 -Margo , actress (d. 1985)
*May 21 -Raymond Burr , actor (d. 1993)
*May 25 -Steve Cochran , actor (d. 1965)
*June 7 -Dean Martin , singer, actor (d. 1995)
*April 29 -Celeste Holm , actress
*June 30 -Lena Horne , singer, actress
*July 17 -Phyllis Diller , comedian, actress
*August 6 -Robert Mitchum , actor (d. 1997)
*August 25 -Mel Ferrer , actor (d. 2008)
*September 9 -Rolf Wenkhaus , actor (d. 1942)
*September 11 -Herbert Lom , actor
*October 7 -June Allyson , actress (d. 2006)
*October 7 -Helmut Dantine , actor (d. 1982)
*October 17 -Alice Pearce , actress (d. 1966)
*October 17 - Marsha Hunt, U.S. actress
*October 22 -Joan Fontaine , actress
*November 4 -Virginia Field , actress (d. 1992)
*December 7 -Hurd Hatfield , actor (d. 1998)
*December 22 -Frankie Darro , actor (d. 1976)Film Debuts
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Buster Keaton Deaths
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February 21 -Fred Mace , actor & comedian
*July 2 -Herbert Beerbohm Tree , stage & screen star
*October 13 -Florence La Badie , pioneer actress
*October 25 - Jack Standing, silent film actor, age 30, son of Herbert Standing and brother ofGuy Standing &Wyndham Standing .References
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