1918 in film

The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.

Events

January 27 – Tarzan makes his film debut in Tarzan of the Apes.
March 10 – Warner Bros. release their first produced picture, My Four Years in Germany.
July – The animated The Sinking of the Lusitania is one of the first examples of animation being used for something other than comedy.
Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the Motion Picture Patents Company disbands.
Louis B. Mayer arrives in Los Angeles and forms Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation.
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.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top six 1918 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1918
Rank	Title	Studio	Domestic rentals
1	Old Wives for New	Paramount	$286,504^[1]
2	The Squaw Man		$283,556^[1]
3	The Whispering Chorus		$242,109^[1]
4	We Can't Have Everything		$207,890^[1]
5	Till I Come Back to You		$183,834^[1]

Films by country

Notable films

Films produced in the United States unless stated otherwise

Comedy film series

Only the films of the series released in 1918 are collected

Buster Keaton (1917–1944)

Films starring Roscoe Arbuckle, featuring Buster Keaton released in 1918:

January 20: Out West as Sheriff / Saloon owner.
March 18: The Bell Boy as Bellboy.

Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)

11 August: Triple Trouble; compilation assembled by Leo White with scenes from Police and an unfinished short, Life, along with new material shot by White. Chaplin includes this production in the filmography of his autobiography.
May 1918: Chase Me Charlie; a seven-reel montage of Essanay films, edited by Langford Reed. Released in England.

Charlie Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, and starred in 9 films for his own production company between 1918 and 1923. These films were distributed by First National. Below the movies released in 1918:

Uncompleted and unreleased films

How to Make Movies: Never assembled, although parts were used in The Chaplin Revue (see below)
Reconstructed in 1981 by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill^[4]
Untitled film: A charity film co-starring Harry Lauder.

Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)

Glasses character ("The Boy"):

The Tip
The Lamb
Hit Him Again
Beat It
A Gasoline Wedding
Look Pleasant, Please
Here Come the Girls
Let's Go
On the Jump
Follow the Crowd
Pipe the Whiskers as Janitor
It's a Wild Life
Hey There!
Kicked Out
The Non-Stop Kid
Two-Gun Gussie
Fireman Save My Child
The City Slicker
Sic 'Em, Towser
Somewhere in Turkey
Are Crooks Dishonest? – sometimes wrongly titled as Doing, Doing, Done
An Ozark Romance
Kicking the Germ Out of Germany
That's Him
Bride and Gloom
Two Scrambled
Bees in His Bonnet
Swing Your Partners
Why Pick on Me?
Nothing but Trouble
Back to the Woods
Hear 'Em Rave
Take a Chance
She Loves Me Not

Lupino Lane (1915–1939)

Short films acting as his character Mr. Butterbun released in 1918:

His Busy Day
His Salad Days
Love and Lobster
The Blunders of Mr. Butterbun: Trips and Tribunals
The Blunders of Mr. Butterbun: Unexpected Treasure
The Haunted Hotel

Births

January 29 – John Forsythe, actor (died 2010)
February 4 – Ida Lupino, actress, director (died 1995)
February 15 - Allan Arbus, actor (died 2013)
February 16 – Patty Andrews, singer, actress, member of The Andrews Sisters (died 2013)
February 19 - Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (died 2019)
March 1 – Roger Delgado, actor (died 1973)
March 9
- Marguerite Chapman, actress (died 1999)
- Mickey Spillane, writer, actor (died 2006)
March 14 –Dennis Patrick, actor (died 2002)
April 14 – Mary Healy, actress, singer (died 2015)
April 17
- William Holden, actor (died 1981)
- Anne Shirley, actress (died 1993)
April 18 – Shinobu Hashimoto, screenwriter (died 2018)
May 14 – June Duprez, actress (died 1984)
May 15 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor (died 2009)
May 20 - Patricia Ellis, American actress (died 1970)
May 21 - Jeanne Bates, American actress (died 2008)
May 26 – John Dall, actor (died 1971)
June 8 – Robert Preston, actor, singer (died 1987)
June 10 - Barry Morse, actor (died 2008)
June 11 – Jane Bryan, actress (died 2009)
June 13 - Ben Johnson, actor (died 1996)
June 15 - Elisabeth Waldo, American former musician and actress
June 21 - Adriana Sivieri, Italian actress (died 1970)
June 26 – Ellen Liiger, actress (died 1987)
July 6 – Sebastian Cabot, actor (died 1977)
July 8 – Craig Stevens, American actor (died 2000)
July 14 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish actor, writer, director (died 2007)
July 16 – William Bishop, actor (died 1959)
July 18 – Jane Frazee, singer, actress (died 1985)
July 25 - Nan Grey, actress (died 1993)
July 26 – Marjorie Lord, actress (died 2015)
August 1 – Cheryl Walker, model, actress (died 1971)
August 9 – Robert Aldrich, director (died 1983)
August 17 – Evelyn Ankers, actress (died 1985)
August 25 – Richard Greene, actor (died 1985)
September 10 – Rin Tin Tin, canine actor (died 1932)
September 13 – Dick Haymes, Argentine actor, singer (died 1980)
September 16 - Branka Veselinović, Serbian actress (died 2023)
September 21 – Rand Brooks, American actor (died 2003)
September 24 - Audra Lindley, American actress (died 1997)
September 28 – Arnold Stang, American actor and comedian (died 2009)
October 9 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (died 2000)
October 13
- Yvette Thuot, Canadian actress (died 2021)
- Robert Walker, actor (died 1951)
October 17 – Rita Hayworth, actress (died 1987)
October 23 - Peggy Moran, actress (died 2002)
October 25 - Milton Selzer, actor (died 2005)
October 27 – Teresa Wright, actress (died 2005)
October 29 – Diana Serra Cary, born Peggy-Jean Montgomery ("Baby Peggy"), child silent film actress (died 2020)
November 4
- Art Carney, actor (died 2003)
- Cameron Mitchell, actor (died 1994)
November 27 - Stephen Elliott, actor (died 2005)
November 30 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor (died 2014)
December 10 – Anne Gwynne, actress, model (died 2003)
December 15 – Jeff Chandler, actor (died 1961)
December 23 - Kumar Pallana, Indian-American character actress (died 2013)

Deaths

January 8 – Johannes Pääsuke, 25, Estonian photographer and director (train crash)
January 12 – Simeon Wiltsie, American actor
February 1 – Joseph Kaufman, 36, American silent film actor & director, married to film star Ethel Clayton
February 15 – Vernon Castle, 30, American dancer & writer
March 13 – William Courtleigh, Jr., 26, American actor
April 30 – "Mother" Mary Maurice, 73, American veteran stage & film actress
May 19 – Sidney Rankin Drew, 26, American actor and director.
June 29 – John van den Broek, 23, Dutch cinematographer
July 4 – Walter Stradling, 43, British cinematographer
August 12 – Anna Held, 46, Polish actress & singer
September 21 – Hal August, 28, American actor;
October 2 - Edwin Arden, American stage & film actor
October 19 – Harold Lockwood, 31, American actor
October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez, 27, American actress
October 22 – Julian L'Estrange, 38, English actor
October 28 – Louise Vale, American actress
November 6 – William Shea, 67, Scottish veteran film actor & director
November 18 – Wayland Trask Jr., 31, American comedian
December 6 – Charles Gunn, 35, American actor
December 29 – Jode Mullally, 32, American actor

Film debuts

Walter Abel – Out of a Clear Sky
Renée Adorée – £500 Reward
Erville Alderson – Her Man
Lionel Atwill – Eve's Daughter
Warner Baxter – All Woman
Faire Binney – Sporting Life
Ferike Boros – Her Boy
William Boyd – Old Wives for New
Joyce Carey – God and the Man
Cyril Cusack – Knocknagow
Karl Dane – My Four Years in Germany
Marguerite De La Motte – Arizona
Lya De Putti – The Emperor's Soldiers
Maude Eburne – A Pair of Sixes
Aristide Garbini – The Crusaders
Ralph Graves – Men Who Have Made Love to Me
Raymond Griffith – The Red-Haired Cupid
Hale Hamilton – The Winning of Beatrice
Neil Hamilton – The Beloved Impostor
Phillips Holmes – Uneasy Money
Lloyd Hughes – Love Me
Allan Jeayes – Nelson
Cecil Kellaway – Bond and Word
Lila Lee – The Cruise of the Make-Believes
Ben Lyon – The Transgressor
Margaret Mann – The Heart of Humanity
Fay McKenzie – Station Content
Robert Middlemass – Other Men's Daughters
Irene Rich – A Desert Wooing
Will Rogers – Laughing Bill Hyde
Elena Sangro – Fabiola
Arthur Shields – Knocknagow
Gloria Swanson – Society for Sale
Ernest Thesiger – Nelson

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813123240.
^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
^ Holger-Madsen, Himmelskibet (Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi), Gunnar Tolnæs, Zanny Petersen, Nicolai Neiiendam, Nordisk Film, retrieved 2024-03-22
^ "How to Make Movies". Charlie Chaplin Encyclopedia. 3 April 2010. Archived from the original on 19 September 2010.

External links

[birchard-1] Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813123240.

[2] Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

[3] Holger-Madsen, Himmelskibet (Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi), Gunnar Tolnæs, Zanny Petersen, Nicolai Neiiendam, Nordisk Film, retrieved 2024-03-22

[4] "How to Make Movies". Charlie Chaplin Encyclopedia. 3 April 2010. Archived from the original on 19 September 2010.

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