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Events

Top grossing films

Films released in 1924

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a silent film of ''The Wizard of Oz''. MGM and L. Frank Baum failed to come to an agreement so the rights were sold to Chadwick Pictures.

Top grossing films

★ ''The Thief of Bagdad''

Films released in 1924

★ ''Aelita'', directed by Yakov Protazanov.

★ ''America (film)'', directed by D.W. Griffith.

★ ''Ballet Mécanique'', directed by Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger.

★ ''Forbidden Paradise'', starring Pola Negri; directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

★ ''Girl Shy'', starring Harold Lloyd.

★ ''Greed'', starring Zasu Pitts and Gibson Gowland; directed by Erich von Stroheim.

★ ''He Who Gets Slapped'', starring Lon Chaney.

★ ''The Iron Horse'', starring George O'Brien.

★ ''Isn't Life Wonderful'', directed by D.W. Griffith.

★ ''Janice Meredith'', starring Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, and Tyrone Power, Sr.

★ ''The Last Laugh''

★ ''The Marriage Circle'', directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

★ ''Michael'', directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.

★ ''Monsieur Beaucaire'', starring Rudolph Valentino, directed by Sidney Olcott.

★ ''The Navigator'', starring Buster Keaton

★ ''Peter Pan'', starring Betty Bronson.

★ ''The Sea Hawk'', starring Milton Sills.

★ ''Sherlock, Jr.''

★ ''The Thief of Bagdad'', directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks.

★ ''Three Weeks'', starring Conrad Nagel and Aileen Pringle.

Short film series

★ ''Buster Keaton'' (1917-1941)

★ ''Laurel and Hardy'' (1921-1943)

★ ''Our Gang'' (1922-1944)

Animated short film series

★ ''Felix the Cat'' (1919-1930)

★ ''Koko the Clown'' (1919-1934)

★ ''Alice Comedies'' ('1924'-1927)

Births

★ January 16 - Katy Jurado, actress († 2002)

★ January 21 - Telly Savalas, actor

★ April 3 - Doris Day, actress, singer

★ April 3 - Marlon Brando, actor († 2004)

★ April 20 - Nina Foch, actress

★ July 4 - Eva Marie Saint, actress

★ July 21 - Don Knotts, actor

★ September 16 - Lauren Bacall, actress

★ September 28 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor

★ September 30 - Truman Capote, author

★ November 22 - Geraldine Page, actress

★ December 25 - Rod Serling, screenwriter

Deaths

★ Thomas Ince, actor & film producer