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The year 1917 in film involved some significant events.

Events



  • February - Buster Keaton first meets Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in New York and is hired as a co-star and gag man.
  • April 23 - Release in the United States of the short The Butcher Boy, the first of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's series of films with the Comique Film Corporation, and Buster Keaton's film debut.
  • April 25 - Thomas Lincoln Tally, in a meeting in New York, co-founds the First National Exhibitors Circuit.
  • September 13 - Release in the United States of The Gulf Between, the first film made in Technicolor System 1, a two-color process.
  • November 9 - World's first feature-length animated film is made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani (El Apóstol)
  • December 18 - Foundation of Universum Film AG (UÆ'A), as a propaganda film company, in Berlin.
  • Movette, another revision of the 17.5 mm film format, is made available.

Top grossing films (U.S.)



Notable films released in 1917


1917 in film

U.S.A. unless stated

  • The Adventurer, a Charlie Chaplin short.
  • All Aboard, a Harold Lloyd short
  • The Bad Boy, starring Robert Harron, Mildred Harris, Colleen Moore
  • Bestia (aka The Polish Dancer), starring Pola Negri - (Poland)
  • Big Timber
  • Bucking Broadway, directed by John Ford, starring Harry Carey
  • The Butcher Boy, starring "Fatty" Arbuckle with Buster Keaton
  • Camille, starring Theda Bara
  • Cleopatra, starring Theda Bara
  • The Colonel (Az Ezredes), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bela Lugosi - (Hungary)
  • Coney Island, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
  • The Cure, a Charlie Chaplin short.
  • Dombey and Son directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Hayford Hobbs - (GB)
  • The Dying Swan (Umirayushchii Lebed) - (U.S.S.R.)
  • Easy Street, starring Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
  • El Apóstol (The Apostle), animated by Quirino Cristiani - (Argentina)
  • Fear directed by Robert Wiene and starring Conrad Veidt - (Germany)
  • Frank Hansen's Fortune directed by Viggo Larsen - (Germany)
  • The Gay Lord Quex directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Ben Webster and Irene Vanbrugh - (GB)
  • Golden Rule Kate, a drama western starring Louise Glaum
  • Great Expectations, starring Jack Pickford
  • The Gulf Between, All color movie.
  • Harrison and Barrison, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Márton Rátkai - (Hungary)
  • Her Right to Live, directed by Paul Scardon, starring Peggy Hyland, Antonio Moreno, Mae Costello, John S. Robertson
  • His Wedding Night, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
  • The Immigrant, starring Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance
  • A Kentucky Cinderella, starring Ruth Clifford
  • The Labour Leader, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Owen Nares, Fay Compton - (GB)
  • The Little American, starring Mary Pickford; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
  • A Little Princess, directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Mary Pickford, Norman Kerry, ZaSu Pitts
  • Der Magische Gürtel ("The Magic Girdle") (Germany)
  • A Man There Was (Terje Vigen), directed by Victor Sjöström - (Sweden)
  • The Man Without a Country, starring Florence La Badie
  • The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach, directed by Rudolf Biebrach, starring Henny Porten, Emil Jannings - (Germany)
  • Oh Doctor!, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
  • One Law for Both directed by Ivan Abramson
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray) - (Germany)
  • The Poor Little Rich Girl, starring Mary Pickford
  • Raffles the Amateur Cracksman, starring John Barrymore
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, starring Mary Pickford
  • A Reckless Romeo, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle short.
  • A Romance of the Redwoods, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Mary Pickford
  • The Rough House, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
  • Satan Triumphant (Satana likuyushchiy) - (U.S.S.R.)
  • Souls Triumphant, starring Lillian Gish
  • Straight Shooting, directed by John Ford
  • The Sultan's Wife, starring Gloria Swanson
  • Teddy at the Throttle, a Keystone comedy starring Gloria Swanson
  • Thaïs - (Italy)
  • Tom Sawyer, starring Jack Pickford
  • The Tornado, directed by John Ford (his debut)
  • The Torture of Silence (Mater Dolorosa), directed by Abel Gance - (France)
  • U-Boote Heraus! ("U-Boat Release") (Germany)
  • Wild and Woolly, starring Douglas Fairbanks

Comedy film series



  • Harold Lloyd (1913â€"1938)
  • Charlie Chaplin (1914â€"1940)
  • Lupino Lane (1915â€"1939)
  • Buster Keaton (1917â€"1944)

Births



  • January 2 - Vera Zorina, dancer, actress (died 2003)
  • January 5 - Jane Wyman, actress (died 2007)
  • January 10 - Hilde Krahl, actress (died 1999)
  • January 24 - Ernest Borgnine, actor (died 2012)
  • February 6 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress
  • February 21 - Lucille Bremer, actress (died 1996)
  • March 2 - Desi Arnaz, actor (died 1986)
  • March 12 - Googie Withers, actress (died 2011)
  • March 22 - Virginia Grey, actress (died 2004)
  • April 14 - Valerie Hobson, actress (died 1998)
  • April 29
    • Celeste Holm, actress (died 2012)
    • Maya Deren, experimental filmmaker (died 1961)
  • May 1 - Danielle Darrieux, actress
  • May 10 - Margo, actress (died 1985)
  • May 16 - George Gaynes, actor
  • May 21 - Raymond Burr, actor (died 1993)
  • May 25 - Steve Cochran, actor (died 1965)
  • June 7 - Dean Martin, singer, actor (died 1995)
  • June 30
    • Lena Horne, singer, actress (died 2010)
    • Susan Hayward, actress (died 1975)
  • July 8 - Faye Emerson, actress (died 1983)
  • July 17 - Phyllis Diller, comedian, actress (died 2012)
  • July 26 - Lorna Gray, actress
  • August 6 - Robert Mitchum, actor (died 1997)
  • August 8 - Earl Cameron, actor
  • August 25 - Mel Ferrer, actor (died 2008)
  • September 9 - Rolf Wenkhaus, actor (died 1942)
  • September 11 - Herbert Lom, actor (died 2012)
  • October 7
    • Helmut Dantine, actor (died 1982)
    • June Allyson, actress (died 2006)
  • October 16 - Alice Pearce, actress (died 1966)
  • October 17 - Marsha Hunt, U.S. actress
  • October 22 - Joan Fontaine, actress (died 2013)
  • November 2 - Ann Rutherford, actress (died 2012)
  • November 4 - Virginia Field, actress (died 1992)
  • December 7 - Hurd Hatfield, actor (died 1998)
  • December 22 - Frankie Darro, actor (died 1976)

Deaths



  • February 21 - Fred Mace, 38, American actor & comedian, What Happened to Jones, His Last Scent (short), A Lover's Might (short), The Love Comet (short)
  • March 6 - Valdemar Psilander, 32, Danish actor, Rytterstatuen, Lykken, Lydia, Klovnen, Favoriten, In Defense of a Nation, John Redmond, the Evangelist
  • July 2 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 64, English stage & screen actor, Beerbohm Tree, The Great English Actor; Henry VIII; Macbeth; Trilby; The Old Folks at Home
  • October 13 - Florence La Badie, 29, American actress, The Man Without a Country, War and the Woman, The Woman in White, When Love was Blind
  • October 25 - Jack Standing, 31, English actor, With Hoops of Steel, The Curse of Eve, The Innocent Sinner, The Price of Her Soul, One Touch of Sin
  • December 20 - Eric Campbell, 38, Scottish actor, The Immigrant, Behind the Screen, The Count, Easy Street, The Adventurer (short), The Cure (short)

Film debuts



  • Marion Davies - Runaway, Romany
  • Vittorio De Sica - The Clemenceau Affair
  • Richard Dix - One of Many
  • Elsie Ferguson - Barbary Sheep
  • John Ford - director, The Tornado (short) (as Jack Ford)
  • Mary Garden - Thais
  • Buster Keaton - actor, The Butcher Boy (short); writer, director, The Rough House (short)
  • Stan Laurel - Nuts in May (short) (as Stan Jefferson)
  • Bela Lugosi - Az ezredes (as Arisztid Olt)
  • ZaSu Pitts - Uneasy Money (short)
  • Marjorie Rambeau - The Greater Woman
  • Loretta Young - The Primrose Ring (uncredited)

References



  1. ^ Films of the Golden Age.
  2. ^ First National filmography.


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