1923 in film

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The following is an overview of 1923 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Highest-grossing films

The top ten films released in 1923 by U.S. gross are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1923
Rank	Title	Studio	Box office gross rental
1	The Covered Wagon	Paramount Pictures	$3,500,000[1]
2	The Ten Commandments	Paramount Pictures	$2,457,710[2]
3	Safety Last!	Pathé Exchange	$1,500,000[1]
4	Scaramouche	Metro Pictures	$1,400,000[3]
5	Little Old New York	Goldwyn Pictures	$1,100,000[3]
6	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Universal Pictures	$1,019,798[4]
7	Rosita	United Artists	$900,000[5]
8	Main Street	Warner Bros.	$510,000[6]
9	The Gold Diggers		$470,000[6]
10	Tiger Rose		$466,000[6]

Events

April 4 – Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. incorporated in the United States.
April 15 – Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.
Henry Roussel's Les Opprimés is released, introducing mattes (painted by W. Percy Day) to French cinema.

Notable films released in 1923

American films unless stated otherwise

H

The Harbour Lights directed by Tom Terriss; starring Tom Moore and Isobel Elsom – (Britain)
Hoy O Nuca, Besame, directed by Jose Nepomuceno - Philippines[7]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney

I

I Will Repay directed by Henry Kolker; starring Holmes Herbert, Flora Le Breton – (GB)
I.N.R.I., directed by Robert Wiene – (Germany)
The Isle of Lost Ships, directed by Maurice Tourneur; starring Anna Q. Nilsson, Milton Sills, Frank Campeau, Walter Long, Aggie Herring
The Lady Owner – directed by Walter West; starring Violet Hopson and James Knight – (Britain)

L

Little Old New York, directed by Sidney Olcott, starring Marion Davies and Harrison Ford
The Love Nest, a Buster Keaton short
The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots, directed by Denison Clift; starring Fay Compton, Gerald Ames and John Stuart – (GB)

M

Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske (The Man in the Iron Mask), directed by Max Glass – (Germany)
The Merchant of Venice (Der Kaufmann von Venedig), starring Henny Porten and Werner Krauss – (Germany)
Merry-Go-Round, directed by Erich von Stroheim
Miss Suwanna of Siam – The first international feature film set in Thailand it features an all Thai cast
Mysteries of a Barbershop (Mysterien eines Friseursalons) – (Germany)

O

Our Hospitality, directed by & starring Buster Keaton
Out to Win, directed by Denison Clift; starring Catherine Calvert, Clive Brook – (GB)

P

Paddy the Next Best Thing, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Mae Marsh (Britain)
The Pilgrim, directed by & starring Charlie Chaplin with Edna Purviance and Syd Chaplin
The Purple Highway, starring Madge Kennedy, Monte Blue, Vincent Coleman and Pedro de Cordoba

R

Raskolnikow, directed by Robert Wiene – (Germany)
Rosita, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Mary Pickford
Le Retour à la Raison (Return to Reason) – (France)
La Roue (The Wheel), directed by Abel Gance – (France)
Rupert of Hentzau, directed by Victor Heerman

S

Safety Last!, starring Harold Lloyd – This film has the famous scene where Lloyd is seen hanging from a clock.
Salomé, directed by Charles Bryant; starring Alla Nazimova
Scaramouche Starring Ramón Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Ingraham
Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination (aka Warning Shadows), directed by Arthur Robison – (Germany)
The Shock, starring Lon Chaney
The Shriek of Araby, starring Ben Turpin
Souls for Sale, starring Richard Dix and Eleanor Boardman
The Street, directed by Karl Grune – (Germany)
Squibs M.P. directed by George Pearson; starring Betty Balfour – (GB)
Suzanna, starring Mabel Normand

T

The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Theodore Roberts
This Freedom directed by Denison Clift; starring Fay Compton and Clive Brook – (GB)
Three Ages, a Buster Keaton film
Three Wise Fools, directed by King Vidor
Through Fire and Water directed by Thomas Bentley; starring Clive Brook, Flora Le Breton – (GB)
The Treasure (Der Schatz), directed by G.W. Pabst – (Germany)

U

Under the Red Robe, directed by Alan Crosland; starring Robert B. Mantell
The Unknown Tomorrow (Das unbekannte Morgen), directed by Alexander Korda – (Germany)

W

The White Shadow, starring Betty Compson and Clive Brook – (GB)
The White Sister, starring Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman
Why Worry?, starring Harold Lloyd
Wild Bill Hickok, directed by Clifford Smith
Within the Law, directed by Frank Lloyd; starring Norma Talmadge
A Woman of Paris, directed by Charles Chaplin; starring Edna Purviance
Woman to Woman, starring Betty Compson and Clive Brook – (GB)

Short film series

Charlie Chaplin (1914–23)
Buster Keaton (1917–41)
Laurel and Hardy (1921–43)
Our Gang (1922–44)

Animated short film series

Felix the Cat (1919–36)
Koko the Clown (1919–34)
Aesop's Film Fables (1921–34)
Alice Comedies
- Alice's Wonderland
The Red Head Comedies (1923).

Births

January 7 – Pinkas Braun, Swiss actor, director (died 2008)
January 8 – Larry Storch, American actor
January 19 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (died 2013)
January 23 – Silvano Campeggi, Italian poster designer (died 2018)
January 26 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress (died 2017)
January 29 – Paddy Chayefsky American writer (died 1981)
February 2 – Bonita Granville, American actress (died 1988)
February 12 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director (died 2019)
February 21 – Lola Flores, Spanish actress (died 1995)
February 28 – Charles Durning, American actor (died 2012)
March 10 – Dolores Fuller, American actress (died 2011)
March 19 – Pamela Britton, American actress (died 1974)
April 2 – Gloria Henry, American actress
April 4 – Gene Reynolds, American actor, producer (died 2020)
April 12 – Ann Miller, American dancer, singer, actress (died 2004)
April 28 – Adele Mara, American actress (died 2010)
May 4 – Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian (died 2012)
May 7 – Anne Baxter, actress (died 1985)
May 14 – Mrinal Sen, Bengali director (died 2018)
May 26 – Roy Dotrice, British actor (died 2017)
June 12 – Herta Elviste, Estonian actress (died 2015)
July 6 – Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (died 1970)
July 18 – Michael Medwin, English actor and producer (died 2020)
July 22 – Mukesh, Indian singer (died 1976)
August 3 – Jean Hagen, American actress (died 1977)
August 10 – Rhonda Fleming, American actress (died 2020)
August 14 – Alice Ghostley, American actress (died 2007)
August 15 – Rose Marie, American actress, singer (died 2017)
August 29 – Richard Attenborough, English actor and director (died 2014)
September 7 – Peter Lawford, British-American actor (died 1984)
September 27 - Mary McCarty, American actress (died 1980)
October 4 – Charlton Heston, American actor (died 2008)
October 5 – Glynis Johns, British actress
October 16 – Linda Darnell, American actress (died 1965)
November 13 – Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (died 2011)
November 28
- Gloria Grahame, American actress (died 1981)
- James Karen, American actor (died 2018)
December 10 – Harold Gould, American actor (died 2010)
December 11 – Betsy Blair, American actress (died 2009)
December 29 – Dina Merrill, American actress (died 2017)

Deaths

January 18 – Wallace Reid, American actor (born 1892)
March 3 – Dante Testa, Italian actor and director (born 1861)
March 26 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (born 1844)
May 21 – Charles Kent, veteran actor and director (born 1852)
June 11 – Porter Strong, American silent film actor
June 17 – Macey Harlam, screen actor (born 1873)
July 12 – Harry Lonsdale, stage and screen actor (born 1865)
July 30 – Charles Hawtrey, veteran British actor (born 1858)
August 29 – Bernard Durning, American actor and director, (born 1893)
September 26 – Jerome Patrick, Broadway stage and silent film leading man (born 1883)
October 28 – Joe Roberts, American actor (born 1871)
November 20 – Allen Holubar, America actor and director (born 1888)
November 30 – Martha Mansfield, American actress (born 1899)
December 28 – Frank Hayes, American actor and comedian (born 1871)

Film debuts

References

Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
Box Office Information for The Ten Commandments
"All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990. p. M150.
Box Office Information for The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Balio, Tino (2009). United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 91.
Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 2 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
"Hoy o Nuca, Besame (1923)". imdb.com.

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[Finler-1] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[2] Box Office Information for The Ten Commandments

[AllTime-3] "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990. p. M150.

[4] Box Office Information for The Hunchback of Notre Dame

[5] Balio, Tino (2009). United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 91.

[warners-6] Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 2 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551

[7] "Hoy o Nuca, Besame (1923)". imdb.com.