1915 IN FILM

The year '1915 in film' involved some significant events.
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Events

Top grossing films

Films released in 1915

Short film series

Births

Deaths

Events

★ June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) was formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.

★ The Allan Dwan directed film ''David Harum'' is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood.

★ The Duplex Corporation creates a Split Duplex, an early widescreen film format where the film image is rotated 90 degrees and occupies half of a conventional frame.

Top grossing films

# ''The Birth of a Nation''

Films released in 1915

★ ''The Awakening''

★ ''La Banda della cifre''

★ ''The Birth of a Nation'', directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Sam De Grasse, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, and Blanche Sweet

★ ''Burlesque on Carmen''

★ ''Carmen'', starring Theda Bara

★ ''The Cheat''

★ ''David Harum''

★ ''Der Golem'', starring Paul Wegener

★ ''The Eternal City''

★ ''Fatty's Tintype Tangle'', starring and directed by 'Fatty' Arbuckle

★ ''La Folie du Docteur Tube''

★ ''A Fool There Was'', starring Theda Bara

★ ''His New Job''

★ ''Honeymoon for Three''

★ ''Inspiration''

★ ''The Italian''

★ ''Martyrs of the Alamo'' by D.W Griffith

★ ''The Morals of Marcus'', starring Marie Doro

★ ''Regeneration''

★ ''The Tramp''

★ ''Les Vampires'', directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora and Edouard Mathé

Short film series

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

★ ''Harold Lloyd'' (1913-1921)

★ ''Charlie Chaplin'' (1914-1923

Births

★ January 9 - Anita Louise, actress (d. 1970)

★ January 9 - Fernando Lamas, actor (d. 1982)

★ January 11 - Veda Ann Borg, actress (d. 1973)

★ January 29 - Victor Mature, actor (d. 1999)

★ January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress (d. 1934)

★ February 7 - Eddie Bracken, actor (d. 2002)

★ February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (d. 1987)

★ February 21 - Ann Sheridan, actress (d. 1967)

★ February 23 - Jon Hall, actor (d. 1979)

★ February 28 - Zero Mostel, actor (d. 1977)

★ March 2 - Lona Andre, actress (d. 1992)

★ March 17 - Henry Bumstead, art director (d. 2006)

★ April 21 - Anthony Quinn, actor (d. 2001)

★ May 5 - Alice Faye, actress (d. 1998)

★ May 6 - Orson Welles, actor, director (d. 1985)

★ June 12 - Priscilla Lane, singer, actress (d. 1995)

★ July 7 - Yul Brynner, actor (d. 1985)

★ August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (d. 1982)

★ September 5 - Jack Buetel, actor (d. 1989)

★ September 10 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (d. 1985)

★ October 13 - Cornel Wilde, actor (d. 1989)

★ December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor

★ December 12 - Frank Sinatra, singer, actor (d. 1998)

★ December 13 - Curd Jürgens, actor (d. 1982)

Deaths

★ April 26 – John Bunny, silent film comedian