1911 in film
The year 1911 in film involved some significant events.
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Events
- February: The Motion Picture Story Magazine, the first American film fan magazine, is published. It is followed later in the year by Photoplay.
- March 23: D. W. Griffith shows the first major close-up shot on film with the successful release of The Lonedale Operator proving his ever-growing mastery of how to utilise film.
- April 8: Winsor McCay releases his first film Little Nemo, one of the earliest animated films.
- October 23 (October 10 OS): Svetozar Botorić's The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Leader Karađorđe (Život i dela besmrtnog vožda Karađorđa, Живот и дела бесмртног вожда Карађорђа) premieres in Belgrade and becomes the first feature film made in Serbia and the Balkans.
- October 26: Defence of Sevastopol («Оборона Севастополя») premieres at the Crimean palace of Tsar Nicholas II and becomes the first feature-length film made in the Russian Empire and one of the first in the world.
- October 27: David Horsley's Nestor Motion Picture Company opens the first motion picture studio in Hollywood.
- November: The Kalem Company of New York pays the estate of author Lew Wallace $25,000 in legal settlement for having adapted Ben Hur (1907 film) from his novel without securing prior rights.
Films released in 1911
- Aerial Anarchists
- Alkali Ike's Auto, starring Bronco Billy Anderson
- Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen, directed by Georges Melies
- Baseball and Bloomers
- The Battle, directed by D. W. Griffith
- The Black Arrow
- Brown of Harvard
- The Buddhist Priestess
- Cally's Comet
- The Coffin Ship
- The Colonel and the King
- Courting Across the Court
- The Cowboy and the Lady
- David Copperfield
- Defence of Sevastopol
- The Diabolical Church Window, directed by Georges Melies
- The Dream, directed by Thomas H. Ince, starring Mary Pickford
- Enoch Arden, directed by D. W. Griffith
- The Fall Of Troy, directed by Giovanni Pastrone
- First Indy 500 (First year footage from the auto race. Filmed on May 30, 1911.)
- Flames and Fortune
- For Her Sake
- His Trust, directed by D. W. Griffith
- His Trust Fulfilled, directed by D. W. Griffith. The sequel to Griffith's earlier 1911 short film "His Trust"
- Her Crowning Glory
- The Inferno (L'Inferno), adapted from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. First blockbuster feature film in cinema. First feature-length horror film.
- The Odyssey (L'Odissea)
- Little Nemo
- The Higher Law
- The Lonedale Operator, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet
- The Miser's Heart, directed by D. W. Griffith
- Der Müller und sein Kind
- The Pasha's Daughter
- Princess Clementina
- The Railroad Builder
- The Scarlet Letter
- She, starring Marguerite Snow
- The Smuggler
- Sweet Memories
- Swords and Hearts, directed by D. W. Griffith
- A Tale of Two Cities
- That's Happiness
- What Shall We Do with Our Old?
- Winsor McCay And His Animated Pictures
- Won by Wireless
Births
- January 5 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (died 2001)
- January 7 – Butterfly McQueen, actress (died 1995)
- January 22 – Mary Hayley Bell, actress, writer and dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (d 2005)
- January 31 – Eddie Byrne, actor (died 1981)
- February 6 – Ronald Reagan, actor, United States President (died 2004)
- February 9 – Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and burlesque dancer (died 1970)
- February 14 – Florence Rice, actress (died 1974)
- February 19 – Merle Oberon, actress (died 1979)
- February 28 – Ishirō Honda, director (died 1993)
- March 3 – Jean Harlow, actress (died 1937)
- March 18 – Smiley Burnette, actor, musician (died 1967)
- April 23 – Ronald Neame, cinematographer, producer and director (died 2010)
- May 11
- Louise Campbell, actress (died 1997)[1]
- Phil Silvers, actor (died 1985)
- May 17 – Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (died 1998)
- May 18 – Sigrid Gurie, actress (died 1969)
- May 27 – Vincent Price, actor (died 1993)
- June 3 – Ellen Corby, actress (died 1999)
- June 20 – Gail Patrick (died 1980)
- June 29 – Bernard Hermann, composer (died 1975)
- July 6 – Laverne Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters (died 1967)
- July 14 – Terry-Thomas, actor (died 1990)
- July 16 – Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer (died 1995)
- July 18 – Hume Cronyn, actor (died 2003)
- August 3 – Alex McCrindle, British actor (died 1990)
- August 5 – Robert Taylor, actor (died 1969)
- August 6 – Lucille Ball, actress (died 1989)
- August 7 – Nicholas Ray, director (died 1979)
- August 12 – Cantinflas, actor (died 1993)
- September 2 – Erwin Hillier, cinematographer (died 2005)
- September 10 – Renée Simonot, actress, voice artist, mother of Catherine Deneuve
- October 13 – Ashok Kumar, actor, India (died 2001)
- October 20 – Will Rogers, Jr., actor (died 1993)
- October 27 – Leif Erickson, actor (died 1986)
- November 5
- Roy Rogers, singer, actor (died 1998)
- Baby Marie Osborne, child actress (died 2010)
- November 10 – Harry Andrews, actor (died 1989)
- December 8 – Lee J. Cobb, actor (died 1976)
- December 9 – Broderick Crawford, actor (died 1986)
- December 30 – Jeanette Nolan, actress (died 1998)
Deaths
- January 18 – Arthur Marvin, cinematographer, (born 1859)
- May 29 – W. S. Gilbert, producer of musicals, half of the team of Gilbert and Sullivan, (born 1836)
- July 18 – Genevieve Lantelme, actress, (born 1883)
- August 11 – Verner Clarges, actor, (born 1846)
- October 27 – Francis Boggs, director, (born 1870)
- November 2 – Kyrle Bellew, actor, (born 1855)
- December 22 – Wright Lorimer, stage actor, screenwriter, (born 1874)
- Unknown – Woodville Latham, producer and exhibitor whose desire to shoot an entire boxing match on a single reel of film led to the invention of the Latham loop (born 1837)
Debuts
- Lionel Barrymore – The Battle
- Francis X. Bushman – His Friend's Wife (short)
- Paul Kelly – Jimmie's Job (short)
- Edgar Kennedy – Brown of Harvard
- Ann Little – The Indian Maiden's Lesson (short)
- Harold Lockwood – The White Red Man (short)
- Anna Q. Nilsson – Molly Pitcher (short)
- Anita Stewart – A Tale of Two Cities as Anna Stewart
- Lenore Ulric – The First Man (1911 short)
- Lois Weber – director, actress, A Heroine of '76 (short); writer, On the Brink (short)
References
- "Louise Campbell, Actress, 86". The New York Times. November 11, 1997. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
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