1923 in film

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of 1923 3 Movies Released 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• 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.

• The Covered Wagon
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney
• Safety Last, starring Harold Lloyd. In one scene, Lloyd is seen climbing around and hanging off the side of a tall building. Lloyd did all of his own stunts, and worked without a safety net.
• The Ten Commandments, starring Theodore Roberts; directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• Why Worry, starring Harold Lloyd
• A Woman of Paris, starring Edna Purviance; directed by Charles Chaplin

• January 7 - Pinkas Braun, actor and film director
• January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan, French actress
• January 19 - Jean Stapleton, actress
• February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, italian director

• March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress