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The year '1913 in film' involved some significant events.
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Events

Top grossing films

Films released in 1913

Short film series

Births

Deaths

Events

★ ''The Squaw Man'', the first Hollywood feature film, is made.

★ December 29, Charlie Chaplin signs a contract with Mack Sennett to begin making films at Keystone Studios.

★ D. W. Griffith completes his series of Biograph shorts, begun in 1909, and leaves the Biograph Company in New York City to make full length motion pictures.

Top grossing films

# ''Traffic in Souls''

Films released in 1913

★ ''Addio giovinezza!''

★ ''The Adventures of Kathlyn''

★ ''American Born''

★ ''Article 47, L'''

★ ''Antony and Cleopatra''

★ ''At Midnight''

★ ''Atlantis''

★ ''The Bangville Police''

★ ''The Student of Prague (1913 film)''

★ ''Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life''

★ ''The Bartered Bride''

★ ''The Battle at Elderbush Gulch''

★ ''Beautiful Bismark''

★ ''The Caged Bird''

★ ''Calamity Anne's Beauty''

★ ''Calamity Anne's Dream''

★ ''Calamity Anne's Inheritance''

★ ''Calamity Anne's Vanity''

★ ''Calamity Anne, Heroine''

★ ''The Cub Reporter's Temptation''

★ ''A Desperate Chance''

★ ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''

★ ''L'Enfant de Paris''

★ ''Evidence of the Film''

★ ''The Face at the Window''

★ ''Fantômas — À l'ombre de la guillotine''

★ ''The Fire Coward''

★ ''The Flirt and the Bandit''

★ ''For Her Boy's Sake''

★ ''For the Crown''

★ ''For the Flag''

★ ''For the Peace of Bear Valley''

★ ''A Forest Romance''

★ ''The Game Warden''

★ ''The Girl and the Greaser''

★ ''The Grasshopper and the Ant''

★ ''The Greater Love''

★ ''The Haunted House''

★ ''The Heart of a Fool''

★ ''Her Big Story''

★ ''Her Gallant Knights''

★ ''His Wife's Child''

★ ''The House in the Tree''

★ ''The Idol of Bonanza Camp''

★ ''In the Firelight''

★ ''In the Mountains of Virginia''

★ ''The Influence of a Child''

★ ''Ingeborg Holm''

★ ''Justice of the Wild''

★ ''Juve contre Fantômas''

★ ''The Lady Killer''

★ ''The Last Days of Pompeii''

★ ''Mabel's Awful Mistakes''

★ ''The Mirror''

★ ''A Mix-Up in Pedigrees''

★ ''Moondyne''

★ ''Le Mort qui tue''

★ ''The Mothering Heart''

★ ''Mrs. Carter's Campaign''

★ ''The New Conductor''

★ ''The Night Before Christmas''

★ ''Nursery Favorites''

★ ''The Oath of Pierre''

★ ''The Other (Der Andere)''

★ ''The Oath of Tsuru San''

★ ''Our Wives''

★ ''Personal Magnetism''

★ ''The Proof of the Man''

★ ''The Pursuit of the Smugglers''

★ ''Quicksands''

★ ''Raja Harishchandra''

★ ''Rick's Redemption''

★ ''Rose of San Juan''

★ ''A Sawmill Hazard''

★ ''The Sea Wolf'', based on the novel by Jack London

★ ''The Scimitar of the Prophet''

★ ''The Shoemaker and the Doll''

★ ''The Shriner's Daughter''

★ ''Some Fools There Were''

★ ''The Speed Kings''

★ ''The Speed Queen''

★ ''The Spender''

★ ''The Tale of the Ticker''

★ ''Through the Neighbor's Window''

★ ''Through the Sluice Gates''

★ ''Traffic in Souls''

★ ''Transported''

★ ''Trapped in a Forest Fire''

★ ''Truth in the Wilderness''

★ ''Unto the Third Generation''

★ ''The Werewolf''

★ ''When Lincoln Paid''

★ ''While There's Life''

★ ''Woman's Honor''

Short film series

★ ''Broncho Billy Anderson'' (1910-1916)

★ Harold Lloyd (1913-1921)

Births

★ January 2 - Anna Lee, actress (d. 2004)

★ January 6 - Loretta Young, actress (d. 2000)

★ January 15 - Lloyd Bridges, actor (d. 1998)

★ January 18 - Danny Kaye, actor (d. 1987)

★ February 8 - Betty Field, actress (d. 1973)

★ February 25 - Jim Backus, actor (d. 1989)

★ February 25 - Gert Fröbe, actor (d. 1988)

★ March 3 - Charlotte Henry, actress (d. 1980)

★ March 4 - John Garfield, actor (d. 1952)

★ March 15 - MacDonald Carey, actor (d. 1994)

★ March 18 - René Clément, director (d. 1996)

★ May 5 - Tyrone Power, actor (d. 1958)

★ May 6 - Stewart Granger, actor (d. 1993)

★ May 26 - Peter Cushing, actor (d. 1994)

★ May 27 - Linden Travers, actress (d. 2001)

★ July 10 - Joan Marsh, actress (d. 2000)

★ July 29 - Gale Page, actress (d. 1983)

★ July 18 - Red Skelton, actor, comedian (d. 1997)

★ August 10 - Noah Beery Jr., actor (d. 1994)

★ August 13 - Rita Johnson, actress (d. 1965)

★ August 24 - Dorothy Comingore, actress (d. 1971)

★ September 3 - Alan Ladd, actor (d. 1964)

★ September 7 - Anthony Quayle, actor (d. 1989)

★ September 19 - Frances Farmer, actress (d. 1970)

★ September 29 - Trevor Howard, actor (d. 1988)

★ September 29 - Stanley Kramer, producer, director (d. 2001)

★ September 30 - Bill Walsh, producer, writer (d. 1975)

★ November 2 - Burt Lancaster, actor (d. 1994)

★ November 4 - Gig Young, actor (d. 1978)

★ November 5 - Vivien Leigh, actress (d. 1967)

★ November 9 - Hedy Lamarr, actress (d. 2000)

★ November 20 - Judy Canova, actress (d. 1983)

★ November 24 - Howard Duff, actor (d. 1990)

★ November 24 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress (d. 2005)

★ December 1 - Mary Martin, actress (d. 1990)

★ December 14 - Dan Dailey, actor (d. 1978)

★ December 18 - Lynn Bari, actress (d. 1989)

Deaths

★ (unknown)