1924 in film

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This is an overview of 1924 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

## Top-grossing films (U.S.)

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The top ten 1924 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1924  Rank | Title | Studio | Domestic rentals

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1 | The Sea Hawk | First National | $2,000,000[1]
2 | Girl Shy | Pathé Exchange | $1,550,000[1]
3 | Secrets | First National  | $1,500,000[1]
4 | The Thief of Bagdad | United Artists | $1,490,419[2]
5 | Hot Water | Pathé Exchange  | $1,350,000[1]
6 | Feet of Clay | Paramount | $904,383[3]
7 | Triumph | $678,526[3]
8 | He Who Gets Slapped | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $493,000[4]
9 | Beau Brummel | Warner Bros. | $453,000[5]
10 | His Hour | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  | $418,000[4]

## Events

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* January 10 – CBC Distributions corp. is renamed and incorporated as Columbia Pictures.
* D. W. Griffith, co-founder of United Artists, leaves the company.
* April 17 – Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gains control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
* November 15 – In Los Angeles, director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") meets publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst to work out a deal. When Ince dies a few days later, reportedly of a heart attack, rumors soon surface that he was murdered by Hearst.[6]
* Loews Theatres acquires the 4,000 seat Capitol Theatre in New York City becoming the flagship of the theatre chain and site of many future MGM premieres.
* Joseph Schenck becomes president of United Artists.
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a film of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. MGM and the estate of L. Frank Baum failed to come to an agreement so the rights were sold to Chadwick Pictures.

## Notable films released in 1924

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For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1924

### A

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* Aelita, directed by Yakov Protazanov – (U.S.S.R.)
* The Alaskan (lost), directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Thomas Meighan and Estelle Taylor
* Along Came Ruth (lost), directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Viola Dana
* America, directed by D. W. Griffith, Neil Hamilton and Lionel Barrymore
* Au Secours! (Help!), directed by Abel Gance, starring Max Linder[7] – (France)

### B

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* Ballet Mécanique, directed by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy – (France)
* Beau Brummel, directed by Harry Beaumont, starring John Barrymore and Mary Astor
* Behind the Curtain, directed by Chester M. Franklin, based on a story by William J. Flynn[8]

### C

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* Captain January directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Baby Peggy and Hobart Bosworth
* Carlos and Elisabeth, directed by Richard Oswald, starring Conrad Veidt – (Germany)
* Claude Duval, directed by George A. Cooper, starring Fay Compton and Nigel Barrie – (GB)
* The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden), directed by Hans Karl Breslauer – (Austria)

### D

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* Dante's Inferno, directed by Henry Otto[9]
* The Dixie Handicap (lost), directed by Reginald Barker

### E

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* The Enchanted Cottage, directed by John S. Robertson, starring Richard Barthelmess and May McAvoy
* Entr'acte, directed by René Clair – (France)
* The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Neobychainye priklyucheniya mistera Vesta v strane bolshevikov), directed by Lev Kuleshov – (U.S.S.R.)

### F

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* Forbidden Paradise, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Pola Negri, Rod La Rocque and Adolphe Menjou
* The Further Mysteries of Dr. Fu Manchu, eight-part series directed by A. E. Coleby[10] – (GB)

### G

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* Girl Shy, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston
* The Grand Duke's Finances (Die Finanzen des Großherzogs), directed by F. W. Murnau – (Germany)
* The Great Well, directed by Henry Kolker – (GB)
* Greed, directed by Erich von Stroheim, starring Gibson Gowland and ZaSu Pitts

### H

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* Happiness, directed by King Vidor, starring Laurette Taylor
* The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände), directed by Robert Wiene, starring Conrad Veidt, based on the 1920 novel by Maurice Renard[11] – (Austria)
* He Who Gets Slapped, directed by Victor Sjöström starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer and John Gilbert
* Helena, directed by Manfred Noa – (Germany)
* Helen's Babies, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Edward Everett Horton, Baby Peggy and Clara Bow
* Her Night of Romance, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Constance Talmadge and Ronald Colman
* His Hour, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert
* Hot Water, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston
* The Humming Bird, directed by Sidney Olcott, starring Gloria Swanson

### I

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* Icebound (lost), directed by William C. deMille, starring Lois Wilson and Richard Dix
* L'Inhumaine (The Inhuman Woman), directed by Marcel L'Herbier – (France)
* The Iron Horse, directed by John Ford, starring George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy
* Isn't Life Wonderful, directed by D. W. Griffith

### J

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* Janice Meredith, directed by E. Mason Hopper, starring Marion Davies

### L

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* The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann), directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
* Little Robinson Crusoe, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Coogan

### M

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* The Marriage Circle, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
* Michael, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Germany)
* Monsieur Beaucaire, directed by Sidney Olcott, starring Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels and Lois Wilson

### N

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* The Navigator, a Buster Keaton film
* Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, directed by Fritz Lang; starring Paul Richter – (Germany)
* Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache, directed by Fritz Lang – (Germany)

### O

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* On Time (lost), directed by Henry Lehrman, starring Richard Talmadge
* Open All Night, directed by Paul Bern, starring Viola Dana

### P

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* Paris Qui Dort (Paris Which Sleeps), directed by René Clair – (France)
* The Passionate Adventure, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Alice Joyce, Clive Brook and Victor McLaglen – (GB)
* Peter Pan, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Betty Bronson and Ernest Torrence

### Q

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* Quo Vadis, directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio and Georg Jacoby, starring Emil Jannings – (Italy)

### S

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* The Saga of Gosta Berling (Gösta Berlings Saga), directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Greta Garbo and Lars Hanson – (Sweden)
* Sampaguita, directed by José Nepomuceno[12] – (Philippines)
* The Sea Hawk, directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Milton Sills
* Secrets, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Norma Talmadge
* The Shadow of the Desert (lost), directed by George Archainbaud, starring Mildred Harris and Norman Kerry
* Sherlock Jr., a Buster Keaton film
* A Son of Satan (lost), written and directed by Oscar Micheaux[13]
* Stupid, But Brave, directed by William Goodrich (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle)
* Symphonie diagonale, directed by Viking Eggeling – (Germany)

### T

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* The Thief of Bagdad, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Douglas Fairbanks
* Those Who Dare (lost), directed by John B. O'Brien[13]
* Three Weeks, directed by Alan Crosland, starring Conrad Nagel and Aileen Pringle
* Three Women, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring May McAvoy, Pauline Frederick and Marie Prevost

### U

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* Unseen Hands, directed by Jacques Jaccard, starring Wallace Beery

### W

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* Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett), directed by Paul Leni, starring Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt and Werner Krauss – (Germany)
* What an Eye, written and directed by Edward Ludwig
* Wild Oranges, directed by King Vidor[14]
* Wine (lost), directed by Louis J. Gasnier, starring Clara Bow
* Wine of Youth, directed by King Vidor, starring Eleanor Boardman and William Haines

### Y

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* Yolanda, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies

## Short film series

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* Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
* Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
* Our Gang (1922–1944)

## Animated short film series

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* Koko the Clown (1919–1934)
* Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
* Alice Comedies (1923–1927)
* Alice's Day at Sea
* Alice's Spooky Adventure
* Alice's Wild West Show
* Alice's Fishy Story
* Alice and the Dog-Catcher
* Alice the Peacemaker
* Alice Gets in Dutch
* Alice Hunting in Africa
* Alice and the Three Bears
* Alice the Piper

## Births

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* January 8 - Ron Moody, English actor (died 2015)
* January 9 – Anne Vernon, French actress
* January 9 – Sergei Parajanov, Soviet director (died 1990)
* January 14 – Carole Cook, American actress (died 2023)
* January 16 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (died 2002)
* January 21 - Benny Hill, English actor, comedian, singer and writer (died 1992)
* January 26 – Armand Gatti, French filmmaker (died 2017)
* January 29 – Dorothy Malone, American actress (died 2018)
* February 9 - Woody Woodbury, American comedian and actor
* February 12 – Louis Zorich, American actor (died 2018)
* February 19 – Lee Marvin, American actor (died 1987)
* March 3 - John Woodnutt, British actor (died 2006)
* March 5 - Harvey Bernhard, American producer (died 2014)
* March 12 – Helen Parrish, American actress (died 1959)
* March 13 - Norma Michaels, American actress (died 2020)
* March 15 - Walter Gotell, German actor (died 1997)
* March 24 - Norman Fell, American actor (died 1998)
* March 25 – Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (died 2019)
* April 3 – Marlon Brando, American actor (died 2004)
* April 4 - Noreen Nash, American actress (died 2023)
* April 7
* Astrid Lepa, Estonian actress and director (died 2015)
* Espen Skjønberg, Norwegian actor (died 2022)
* April 13 – Stanley Donen, American director and choreographer (died 2019)
* April 14
* Joseph Ruskin, American actor (died 2013)
* Philip Stone, English actor (died 2003)
* April 18 – Leida Rammo, Estonian actress (died 2020)
* April 19 - Tatiana Farnese, Italian actress (died 2022)
* April 20
* Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (died 2008)
* Leslie Phillips, English comic actor (died 2022)
* April 24
* Ruth Kobart, American performer (died 2002)
* Eric Pleskow, Austrian film producer (died 2019)
* April 29 – Heikki Haravee, Estonian actor (died 2003)
* May 1 – Dodo Abashidze, Soviet Georgian director (died 1990)
* May 2 – Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor (died 2015)
* May 3 - Jane Morgan, American actress and singer
* May 5 - Shekhar Chatterjee, Indian actor and director (died 1990)
* May 6 - Laurie Webb, Welsh retired actor
* May 18 - Priscilla Pointer, American actress (died 2025)
* May 23 - Bill McCutcheon, American character actor (died 2002)
* May 25 - Walter Schultheiss, German actor
* June 2 - Al Ruscio, American character actor (died 2013)
* June 4 – Dennis Weaver, American actor, SAG president (died 2006)
* June 16 – Faith Domergue, American actress (died 1999)
* June 21 – Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor (died 2018)
* June 25 – Sidney Lumet, American director (died 2011)
* July 1 - Florence Stanley, American actress (died 2003)
* July 3 - Amalia Aguilar, Cuban-born Mexican actress (died 2021)
* July 4 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress
* July 6
* Draga Ahačič, Slovene actress and director (died 2022)
* Donald Pelmear, British actor (died 2025)
* July 14 - Val Avery, American actor (died 2009)
* July 19 - Pat Hingle, American actor (died 2009)
* July 20 – Lola Albright, American actress (died 2017)
* July 21 – Don Knotts, American actor (died 2006)
* July 29 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (died 2005)
* August 1 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (died 2007)
* August 2 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (died 2001)
* August 10 – Martha Hyer, American actress (died 2014)
* August 13 - Meta Velander, Swedish actress (died 2025)
* August 14 – Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor (died 2019)
* August 19 - William Marshall, American actor (died 2003)
* August 21 - Jack Weston, American actor (died 1996)
* August 24 – Jimmy Gardner, English actor (died 2010)
* August 28 – Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (died 2004)
* August 29 – Tanis Chandler, French-born American actress (died 2006)
* August 31 - Buddy Hackett, American actor, comedian and singer (died 2003)
* September 1 - Hal Douglas, American voice actor (died 2014)
* September 2 – Knud Leif Thomsen, Danish director and screenwriter (died 2003)
* September 6 – Riccardo Cucciolla, Italian actor and voice actor (died 1999)
* September 8 – Denise Darcel, French actress (died 2011)
* September 9
* Jane Greer, American actress (died 2001)
* Sylvia Miles, American actress (died 2019)
* September 11 - David Morris, English actor (died 2007)
* September 13
* Norman Alden, American character actor (died 2012)
* Scott Brady, American actor (died 1985)
* September 16 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (died 2014)
* September 21 – Gail Russell, American actress (died 1961)
* September 23 – Bob Herron, American stuntman and actor (died 2021)
* September 28 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (died 1996)
* September 29 - Peter Arne, British character actor (died 1983)
* September 30 – Truman Capote, American author (died 1984)
* October 1 – Jose Corazon de Jesus Jr., Filipino actor (died 1970)
* October 12 - Doris Grau, American script supervisor, actress and voice artist (died 1995)
* October 21 - Joyce Randolph, American actress (died 2024)
* October 24 - Mark Lenard, American actor (died 1996)
* October 25 – Billy Barty, American actor (died 2000)
* November 2 - Nadia Cattouse, Belize-British actress (died 2024)
* November 8 - Joe Flynn (American actor), American actor (died 1974)
* November 10
* Russell Johnson, American actor (died 2014)
* Paul Richards, American actor (died 1974)
* November 16 - Remo Remotti, Italian actor (died 2015)
* November 19 - William Russell, English actor (died 2024)
* November 20 - Mark Miller, American actor (died 2022)
* November 21 - Joseph Campanella, American actor (died 2018)
* November 22 – Geraldine Page, American actress (died 1987)
* December 2 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish director (died 2006)
* December 5 - George Savalas, American actor (died 1985)
* December 13 - Maria Riva, American actress and writer
* December 14
* John Franklyn-Robbins, English actor (died 2009)
* Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director and producer (died 1988)
* December 19 - Cicely Tyson, American actress, model and author (died 2021)
* December 19 - Edmund Purdom, English actor, voice artist and director (died 2009)
* December 25 – Rod Serling, American screenwriter (died 1975)
* December 31 - Taylor Mead, American actor (died 2013)

## Deaths

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* April 16 – Amleto Novelli, Italian stage and screen actor (born in 1885)
* April 21 – Eleonora Duse, Italian veteran stage actress, who made one film in 1916 (born in 1858)
* August 9 – L. Rogers Lytton, American stage and screen actor (born in 1867)
* September 23 – Ben Deeley, film actor married to Barbara La Marr (born in 1878)
* October 12 – Kate Lester, English veteran stage and film actress (born in 1857)
* November 19 – Thomas Ince, American actor and pioneer film producer (born in 1880)

## Film debuts

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* Brian Aherne – The Eleventh Commandment
* Mary Brian – Peter Pan
* Kay Deslys – Tarnish
* Clark Gable – White Man
* Janet Gaynor – Cupid's Rustler
* John Gielgud – Who Is the Man?
* Johannes Heesters – Cirque hollandais
* Olin Howland – The Great White Way
* Ian Hunter – Not for Sale
* Leila Hyams – Sandra
* Ian Keith – Manhandled
* Robert Keith – The Other Kind of Love
* Lois Moran – La Galerie des monstres
* Grete Mosheim – Michael
* Rafaela Ottiano – The Law and the Lady
* Nat Pendleton – The Hoosier Schoolmaster
* Jane Pierson – Mandrin
* Michel Simon – La Galerie des monstres
* Camilla Spira – Mutter und Sohn
* Tom Tyler – Three Weeks
* Ellinor Vanderveer – Married Flirts
* Pierre Watkin – He Who Gets Slapped

## Notes

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## References

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1. ^ a b c d "The All Time Best Sellers". International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38. Quigley Publishing Company. p. 942. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
2. ^ Solomon, Aubrey (2014). The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. ISBN 978-0-7864-8160-6. "This effort returned some startlingly good results on several pictures. United Artists' The Thief of Bagdad (1924), starring Douglas Fairbanks, performed exceptionally well, with $1,490,419 in domestic rentals, but had a high production cost of $1,135,654."
3. ^ a b Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813123240.
4. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
5. ^ Glancy, H Mark (1995). "Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 15: 55–73\. doi:10.1080/01439689500260031.
6. ^ Taves, Brian. (2012). Thomas Ince: Hollywood's Independent Producer. The University Press of Kentucky. pp. 1–13\. ISBN 978-0-8131-3423-9. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
7. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. Pg. 273. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
8. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
9. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. Pg. 274. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
10. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
11. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Pg. 277. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
12. ^ "Sampaguita (1924)". imdb.com.
13. ^ a b Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. Pg. 280. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
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