1924 in film
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
The year 1924 in motion picture involved some significant events and films.
Contents
Events
- January 10 - CBC Distributions corp. is renamed as Columbia Pictures.
- April 17 - Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a silent film of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. MGM and the estate of L. Frank Baum failed to come to an agreement so the rights were sold to Chadwick Pictures.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
Rank | Title | Gross |
---|---|---|
1. | The Sea Hawk | |
2. | He Who Gets Slapped | $349,000 |
3. | Girl Shy | |
4. | A Society Scandal | |
5. | The Humming Bird | |
6. | The Marriage Circle | |
7. | Beau Brummel | |
8. | The Thief of Bagdad | |
9. | Greed | $274,827.55 |
10. | Secrets | |
11. | Hot Water |
Notable films released in 1924
U.S.A. unless stated
- Aelita, directed by Yakov Protazanov - (U.S.S.R.)
- The Alaskan, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Thomas Meighan and Estelle Taylor
- Along Came Ruth, directed by Edward F. Cline
- America, directed by D. W. Griffith
- Au Secours! (Help), directed by Abel Gance, starring Max Linder - (France)
- Ballet Mécanique, directed by Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger - (France)
- Beau Brummel, directed by Harry Beaumont; starring John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis and Irene Rich
- Captain January directed by Eddie Cline; starring Baby Peggy and Hobart Bosworth
- Carlos and Elisabeth, starring Conrad Veidt - (Germany)
- Claude Duval, starring Nigel Barrie, Fay Compton (GB)
- The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) - (Austria)
- Dante's Inferno, directed by Henry Otto
- The Enchanted Cottage dir. by John S. Robertson and starring Richard Barthelmess and May McAvoy
- Entr'acte, directed by René Clair - (France)
- The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Neobychainye priklyucheniya mistera Vesta v strane bolshevikov) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Forbidden Paradise, directed by Ernst Lubitsch; starring Pola Negri, Adolphe Menjou and Rod La Rocque
- Girl Shy, starring Harold Lloyd
- Gösta Berlings saga, directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Greta Garbo - (Sweden)
- The Grand Duke's Finances (Die Finanzen des Großherzogs), directed by F. W. Murnau - (Germany)
- The Great Well directed by Henry Kolker - (GB)
- Greed, directed by Erich von Stroheim; starring ZaSu Pitts and Gibson Gowland
- Happiness, directed by King Vidor
- The Hands of Orlac, starring Conrad Veidt - (Austria)
- He Who Gets Slapped, directed by Victor Sjöström; starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer and John Gilbert
- Helena, directed by Manfred Noa (Germany)
- Helen's Babies, starring Edward Everett Horton, Baby Peggy and Clara Bow
- Her Night of Romance, directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Constance Talmadge and Ronald Colman
- His Hour, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert
- Hot Water, starring Harold Lloyd
- The Humming Bird, starring Gloria Swanson
- Icebound, directed by William C. deMille, starring Richard Dix and Lois Wilson
- L'Inhumaine (The Inhuman Woman) - (France)
- 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 (Der Letzte Mann), directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Emil Jannings - (Germany)
- Little Robinson Crusoe, starring Jackie Coogan
- The Marriage Circle, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
- Michael, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Germany)
- Monsieur Beaucaire, directed by Sidney Olcott; starring Rudolph Valentino and Bebe Daniels
- The Navigator, starring Buster Keaton
- Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, directed by Fritz Lang; starring Paul Richter - (Germany)
- Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache, by Fritz Lang - (Germany)
- Open All Night, starring Viola Dana
- The Passionate Adventure, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Clive Brook - (GB)
- Peter Pan, starring Betty Bronson
- The Sea Hawk, starring Milton Sills
- Secrets, starring Norma Talmadge
- Sherlock, Jr., starring and directed by Buster Keaton
- Stupid, But Brave, directed by Fatty Arbuckle
- Symphonie diagonale - (Germany)
- The Thief of Bagdad, directed by Raoul Walsh; starring Douglas Fairbanks
- Three Weeks, starring Conrad Nagel and Aileen Pringle
- Three Women, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
- Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett), directed by Paul Leni, starring Conrad Veidt and Emil Jannings - (Germany)
- Wild Oranges, directed by King Vidor
- Wine, directed by Louis J. Gasnier; starring Clara Bow
- Wine of Youth, directed by King Vidor; starring Eleanor Boardman and ZaSu Pitts
Short film series
- Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
- Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
- Our Gang (1922-1944)
Animated short film series
- Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
- Koko the Clown (1919–1934)
- Alice Comedies
- Alice's Day at Sea
- Alice's Spooky Adventure
- Alice's Wild West Show
- Alice's Fishy Story
- Alice and the Dog-Catcher
- Alice the Peacemaker
- Alice Gets in Dutch
- Alice Hunting in Africa
- Alice and the Three Bears
- Alice the Piper
Births
Day | Name | Profession | Year of death |
January 9 | Sergei Parajanov | director | 1990 |
January 16 | Katy Jurado | actress | 2002 |
February 19 | Lee Marvin | actor | 1987 |
April 3 | Marlon Brando | 2004 | |
April 13 | Stanley Donen | director | |
April 20 | Nina Foch | actress | 2008 |
Leslie Phillips | actor | ||
May 1 | Dodo Abashidze | director | 1990 |
May 2 | Theodore Bikel | actor | 2015 |
June 25 | Sidney Lumet | director | 2011 |
July 4 | Eva Marie Saint | actress | |
July 21 | Don Knotts | actor | 2006 |
August 10 | Martha Hyer | actress | 2014 |
September 16 | Lauren Bacall | ||
September 28 | Marcello Mastroianni | actor | 1996 |
September 30 | Truman Capote | author | 1984 |
October 25 | Billy Barty | actor | 2000 |
November 22 | Geraldine Page | actress | 1987 |
December 2 | Vilgot Sjöman | director | 2006 |
December 25 | Rod Serling | screenwriter | 1975 |
Deaths
Day | Name | Profession | Year of birth |
April 16 | Amleto Novelli | Italian stage and screen actor | 1885 |
April 21 | Eleonora Duse | Italian veteran & stage actress who made one film in 1916 | 1858 |
August 9 | L. Rogers Lytton | American stage and screen actor | 1867 |
September 23 | Ben Deeley | film actor married to Barbara La Marr | 1878 |
October 12 | Kate Lester | English veteran stage & film actress, age 67 | 1857 |
November 19 | Thomas Ince | American actor & pioneer film producer | 1882 |