The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
Rank | Title | Gross |
1. |
The Birth of a Nation |
$10,000,000[2] |
2. |
Carmen |
$147,600 |
3. |
The Cheat |
$137,364 [3] |
4. |
Temptation |
$102,437 |
5. |
The Girl of the Golden West |
$102,224 |
6. |
The Warrens of Virginia |
$85,770 |
7. |
The Golden Chance |
$83,504 |
8. |
Chimmie Fadden |
$78,944 |
9. |
Chimmie Fadden Out West |
$72,036 |
10. |
The Arab |
$66,036 |
Notable films released in 1915
All following films are American, except where stated.
- Are You a Mason?, directed by Thomas N. Heffron, starring John Barrymore
- Assunta Spina, starring Francesca Bertini - (Italy)
- The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish
- The Caprices of Kitty, directed by Phillips Smalley, starring Elsie Janis
- Carmen, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Geraldine Farrar
- Carmen, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Theda Bara
- The Champion, starring Charles Chaplin and Edna Purviance
- The Cheat, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa
- The Crazy Clock Maker
- Double Trouble, starring Douglas Fairbanks
- Enoch Arden, starring Lillian Gish
- Fatty's Spooning Days, starring Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and The Keystone Cops
- Filibus - (Italy)
- A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara
- Four Feathers
- A Gentleman of Leisure, directed by George Melford, starring Wallace Eddinger
- The Golden Chance, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Cleo Ridgely and Wallace Reid
- The Golem (Der Golem), directed by and starring Paul Wegener - (Germany)
- The Immigrant
- Inspiration
- The Italian
- The Lamb, starring Douglas Fairbanks
- Madame Butterfly, directed by Sidney Olcott, starring Mary Pickford
- The Man Who Stayed at Home - (GB)
- Martyrs of the Alamo
- The Raven
- Regeneration, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Rockliffe Fellowes and Anna Q. Nilsson
- Sagebrush Tom, starring Tom Mix
- The Senator, directed by Joseph A. Golden
- The Soul of Broadway
- The Tramp, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
- Le traquenard, starring Irène Bordoni - (France)
- The Two Orphans, starring Theda Bara
- Work, directed by & starring Charles Chaplin
Births
- January 9
- January 11 - Veda Ann Borg, actress (died 1973)
- January 26 - William Hopper, actor; son of Hedda Hopper (died 1970)
- January 29 - Bill Peet, Disney author and illustrator (died 2002)
- January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress (died 1934)
- February 7 - Eddie Bracken, actor (died 2002)
- February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (died 1987)
- February 21 - Ann Sheridan, actress (died 1967)
- February 23 - Jon Hall, actor (died 1979)
- February 28 - Zero Mostel, actor (died 1977)
- March 2 - Lona Andre, actress (died 1992)
- March 17 - Henry Bumstead, art director (died 2006)
- March 19 - Patricia Morison, actress (died 2018)
- April 10 - Harry Morgan, American actor (died 2011)
- April 21 - Anthony Quinn, actor (died 2001)
- May 5 - Alice Faye, actress, (died 1998)
- May 6 - Orson Welles, actor, director (died 1985)
- May 8 - John Archer, American actor (died 1999)
- May 19 - Renée Asherson, actress, (died 2014)
- June 12 - Priscilla Lane, singer, actress (died 1995)
- August 2 - Gary Merrill, actor (died 1990)
- August 15 - Signe Hasso, (died 2002)
- August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (died 1982)
- September 5 - Jack Buetel, actor (died 1989)
- September 10 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (died 1985)
- September 14 - Douglas Kennedy, actor (died 1973)
- September 29 - Brenda Marshall, American actress (died 1992)
- October 29 - Evi Rauer, Estonian actress (died 2004)
- December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor (died 2014)
- December 12 - Frank Sinatra, singer, actor (died 1998)
- December 13 - Curd Jürgens, actor (died 1982)
- December 14 - Dan Dailey, actor (died 1978)
Deaths
- January 10 - Marshall P. Wilder, 55, American diminutive stage and screen actor
- April 26 – John Bunny, 51, American silent film comedian, A Strand of Blond Hair, Bunny's Little Brother, Bunny Backslides
- June 5 - John C. Rice, 58, stage and film actor, The Kiss
- June 16 - Elmer Booth, 32, American silent screen actor, brother of film editor Margaret Booth, The Musketeers of Pig Alley, The Narrow Road, An Unseen Enemy
- October 31 - Blanche Walsh, 42, American stage actress appeared in Zukor's 3 reel feature "Resurrection" 1912
References
- ↑ "The Metro Corporation". Motography. XIII (8). February 20, 1915. p. 278. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
- ↑ Rucker, Walter C.; Upton, James N., eds. (2007). Encyclopedia of American race riots. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-313-33301-9.
...earning more than $10 million at the box office in 1915. By 1949, it had earned $50 million
- ↑ Birchard, Robert S. (2004), Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 19,
ISBN 0-8131-2324-0