1918 In Film Information

The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband.
• 28 mm safety standard film, designed by Alexander Victor, becomes one of the earliest film formats to use "safety film" bases in order to safeguard the amateur market against nitrate fires.
• Warner Bros. Pictures is established.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1918

• Alraune
• Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne
• Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Mary Pickford
• L'ame du bronze
• America's Answer
• Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific
• Arizona
• The Bell Boy, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short
• The Bond
• Bound In Morroco, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The City of Dim Faces, starring Sessue Hayakawa and Marin Sais
• The Cook, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short
• A Dog's Life, a Charlie Chaplin short
• The Embarrassment of Riches
• The Eyes of Julia Deep
• Father Sergius, directed by Yakov Protazanov, starring Ivan Mozzukhin
• The Ghost of Rosy Taylor
• The Ghost of Slumber Mountain
• The Goddess of Lost Lake, starring Louise Glaum
• Headin' South, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The Heart of Humanity (starring Erich von Stroheim)
• Hearts of the World, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish
• The House of Mirth, directed by Albert Capellani, starring Katherine Corri Harris
• Huck and Tom
• Johanna Enlists
• The Light of the Western Stars
• Masks and Faces
• Men Who Have Made Love to Me
• Mickey, directed by F. Richard Jones, starring Mabel Normand
• Moonshine, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short
• Nocturnal Tunes
• Out of the Inkwell, animated film, directed by Max Fleischer
• Out West, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short
• The Outlaw and His Wife, directed by and starring Victor Sjöström
• The Richest Girl
• The Romance of Tarzan
• Shoulder Arms, a Charlie Chaplin film
• The Sinking of the Lusitania, a short animated propaganda film by Winsor McCay
• Salomé, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, starring Theda Bara
• Stella Maris, directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Mary Pickford
• Tarzan of the Apes, directed by Scott Sidney, starring Elmo Lincoln and Enid Markey
• The Tenth Symphony, directed by Abel Gance, starring Séverin-Mars and Jean Toulout
• Tih Minh, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring René Cresté
• Triple Trouble, a Charlie Chaplin short, starring Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance
• Vendemiaire
• Under the Yoke, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, starring Theda Bara
• Under the Greenwood Tree directed by Emile Chautard starring Elsie Ferguson

Comedy film series

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

Births

• January 29 - John Forsythe, actor (d. 2010)
• February 4 - Ida Lupino, actress, director (d. 1995)
• February 16 - Patty Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters
• March 1 - Roger Delgado, actor (d. 1973)
• March 9 - Mickey Spillane, writer, actor (d. 2006)
• April 17 - Anne Shirley, actress (d. 1993)
• April 17 - William Holden, actor (d. 1981)
• May 14 - June Duprez, actress (d. 1984)
• May 26 - John Dall, actor (d. 1971)
• June 8 - Robert Preston, actor, singer (d. 1987)
• June 30 - Susan Hayward, actress (d. 1975)
• July 6 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (d. 1977)
• July 14 - Ingmar Bergman, actor, writer, director (d. 2007)
• July 18 - Jane Frazee, singer, actress (d. 1985)
• July 26 - Marjorie Lord, actress
• August 9 - Robert Aldrich, director (d. 1983)
• August 17 - Evelyn Ankers, actress (d. 1985)
• September 5 - Rin Tin Tin, canine actor (d. 1932)
• September 21 - Rand Brooks, actor (d. 2003)
• October 9 - Lila Kedrova, actress (d. 2000)
• October 13 - Robert Walker, actor (d. 1951)
• October 17 - Rita Hayworth, actress (d. 1987)
• October 27 - Teresa Wright, actress (d. 2005)
• November 4 - Art Carney, actor (d. 2003)
• November 4 - Cameron Mitchell, actor (d. 1994)
• November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor
• December 20 - Audrey Totter, actress

Deaths

• January 12 - Simeon Wiltsie, actor The Wishing Ring, (b. 1853)
• February 1 - Joseph Kaufman, silent film actor & director, married to film star Ethel Clayton
• February 15 - Vernon Castle, dancer (b. 1887)
• April 30 - "Mother" Mary Maurice, veteran stage & film actress (born 1844)
• June 29 - John Van Den Broek, Dutch cinematographer, worked on several Maurice Tourneur films (drowned) while filming the movie Woman(1918)
• July 4 - Walter Stradling, cinematographer several films with Mary Pickford (b. 1875)
• August 12 - Anna Held, actress & singer (b. 1873)
• September 21 - Hal August, actor; brother of Edwin August (b. 1890)
• October 19 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b.1887)
• October 28 - Louise Vale, American actress
• November 6 - William Shea, veteran film actor & director, b. 1862
• December 6 - Charles Gunn, American actor (b. 1883)

Debuts

• Noel Coward
• Will Rogers

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