1913 in film

The year 1913 in film involved some significant events.

§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 ends his series of Biograph shorts, begun in 1908, and leaves the Biograph Company in New York City to make full length motion pictures.
• Georges Méliès' career as a director comes to an end; Mitchell and Kenyon shoot their last known films.
• The first full-length Indian (and Marathi) feature film Raja Harishchandra (silent) was released on 21 April (premiere) and 3 May (public).

§Top grossing films (U.S.)

§Films released in 1913

• Addio giovinezza!
• The Adventures of Kathlyn
• American Born
• Article 47, L'
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Arizona
• 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, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mae Marsh and Lillian Gish
• Beautiful Bismark
• The Caged Bird
• Calamity Anne's Beauty
• Calamity Anne's Dream
• The Battle of Gettysburg
• Calamity Anne's Inheritance
• Calamity Anne's Vanity
• Calamity Anne, Heroine
• Caprice
• The Cub Reporter's Temptation
• David Copperfield
• David Garrick
• A Desperate Chance
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• L'Enfant de Paris
• Evidence of the Film
• The Face at the Window
• Fantômas (film serial, parts 4 and 5 released in 1914)

• À l'ombre de la guillotine
• Juve contre Fantômas
• Le Mort qui tue

• 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
• Hamlet
• The Haunted House (1913 film)
• The Heart of a Fool
• Her Big Story
• Her Gallant Knights
• Hinemoa
• His Wife's Child
• The House in the Tree
• The Idol of Bonanza Camp
• In the Bishop's Carriage
• In the Firelight
• In the Mountains of Virginia
• The Influence of a Child
• Ingeborg Holm
• Ivanhoe
• Justice of the Wild
• The Lady Killer
• The Last Days of Pompeii, directed by Mario Caserini and Eleuterio Rodolfi (One of the early blockbusters in cinema. One of the earliest feature films.)
• Mabel's Awful Mistakes
• The Mirror
• A Mix-Up in Pedigrees
• Moondyne
• 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
• The Reformers, or the Lost Art of Minding One's Own Business, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Rick's Redemption
• The Rose of San Juan
• A Sawmill Hazard
• Scrooge
• The Sea Wolf, based on the novel by Jack London
• The Scimitar of the Prophet
• The Shoemaker and the Doll
• The Shriner's Daughter
• Il sire di Vincigliata
• Some Fools There Were
• The Speed Kings
• The Speed Queen
• The Spender
• The Student of Prague, starring Paul Wegener
• Suspense, directed by Lois Weber
• 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
• Twilight of a Woman's Soul
• Unto the Third Generation
• The Unwelcome Guest
• The Werewolf
• When Lincoln Paid
• While There's Life
• Woman's Honor
• Zhuangzi Tests His Wife

§Short film series

• Broncho Billy Anderson (1910â€"1916)
• Harold Lloyd (1913â€"1921)

§Births

• January 2 - Anna Lee, actress (died 2004)
• January 6 - Loretta Young, actress (died 2000)
• January 15 - Lloyd Bridges, actor (died 1998)
• January 29 - Victor Mature, actor (died 1999)
• February 8 - Betty Field, actress (died 1973)
• February 25
  • Gert Fröbe, actor (died 1988)
  • Jim Backus, actor (died 1989)
• March 4 - John Garfield, actor (died 1952)
• March 15 - MacDonald Carey, actor (died 1994)
• March 18 - René Clément, director (died 1996)
• May 6 - Stewart Granger, actor (died 1993)
• May 8 - Sid James, actor and comedian (died 1976)
• May 26 - Peter Cushing, actor (died 1994)
• May 27 - Linden Travers, actress (died 2001)
• July 10 - Joan Marsh, actress (died 2000)
• July 18 - Red Skelton, actor, comedian (died 1997)
• July 29 - Gale Page, actress (died 1983)
• August 10 - Noah Beery Jr., actor (died 1994)
• August 13 - Rita Johnson, actress (died 1965)
• August 24 - Dorothy Comingore, actress (died 1971)
• September 3 - Alan Ladd, actor (died 1964)
• September 7 - Anthony Quayle, actor (died 1989)
• September 19 - Frances Farmer, actress (died 1970)
• September 29
  • Stanley Kramer, producer, director (died 2001)
  • Trevor Howard, actor (died 1988)
• September 30 - Bill Walsh, producer, writer (died 1975)
• November 2 - Burt Lancaster, actor (died 1994)
• November 4 - Gig Young, actor (died 1978)
• November 5 - Vivien Leigh, actress (died 1967)
• November 20 - Judy Canova, actress (died 1983)
• November 24
  • Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress (died 2005)
  • Howard Duff, actor (died 1990)
• December 1 - Mary Martin, actress (died 1990)
• December 18 - Lynn Bari, actress (died 1989)
• December 25 - Tony Martin, singer, actor (died 2012)

§Deaths

• June 2 - Eleanor Caines, silent film actress (b. 1880)
• August 3 - Joseph Graybill, actor with D.W. Griffith (b. 1887)

§Film debuts

• Wallace Beery - His Athletic Wife (short)
• Gladys Brockwell - His Blind Power
• Minnie Maddern Fiske - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• Harold Lloyd - The Old Monk's Tale (short) (uncredited)
• Paul Wegener - Der Verfuhrte
• Lillie Langtry - His Neighbor's Wife
• Cissie Loftus - A Lady of Quality

§References

1. ^ Overview New York Times.
2. ^ List of Marathi films#1913 to 1919
3. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0003471/business