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The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Films released in 1915 4 Short film series 5 Births 6 Film debuts 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• February 8: D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premiers at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks film technique and film length records introducing shots such as the jump cut, and running at a total length of 310 minutes.
• June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) was formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.
• The Allan Dwan directed film David Harum is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood.
• The Duplex Corporation creates a Split Duplex, an early widescreen film format where the film image is rotated 90 degrees and occupies half of a conventional frame.

[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	The Awakening
2.	La Banda della cifre
3.	The Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Sam De Grasse, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, and Blanche Sweet	$1,000,000
4.	Burlesque on Carmen
5.	Carmen, starring Theda Bara
6.	The Cheat
7.	David Harum
8.	Der Golem, starring Paul Wegener
9.	The Eternal City
10.	Fatty's Tintype Tangle, starring and directed by 'Fatty' Arbuckle
11.	La Folie du Docteur Tube
12.	A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara
13.	His New Job
14.	Honeymoon for Three
15.	Inspiration
16.	The Italian
17.	Martyrs of the Alamo by D.W Griffith
18.	The Morals of Marcus, starring Marie Doro
19.	Regeneration
20.	The Tramp
21.	Les Vampires, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora and Édouard Mathé

[edit] Films released in 1915

• Four Feathers

[edit] Short film series

• Broncho Billy Anderson (1910-1916)
• Harold Lloyd (1913-1921)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914-1923

[edit] Births

• January 9 - Anita Louise, actress (d. 1970)
• January 9 - Fernando Lamas, actor (d. 1982)
• January 11 - Veda Ann Borg, actress (d. 1973)
• January 29 - Victor Mature, actor (d. 1999)
• January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress (d. 1934)
• February 7 - Eddie Bracken, actor (d. 2002)
• February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (d. 1987)
• February 21 - Ann Sheridan, actress (d. 1967)
• February 23 - Jon Hall, actor (d. 1979)
• February 28 - Zero Mostel, actor (d. 1977)
• March 2 - Lona Andre, actress (d. 1992)
• March 17 - Henry Bumstead, art director (d. 2006)
• April 10 - Harry Morgan, United States actor
• April 21 - Anthony Quinn, actor (d. 2001)
• May 5 - Alice Faye, actress (d. 1998)
• May 6 - Orson Welles, actor, director (d. 1985)
• June 12 - Priscilla Lane, singer, actress (d. 1995)
• July 7 - Yul Brynner, actor (d. 1985)
• August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (d. 1982)
• September 5 - Jack Buetel, actor (d. 1989)
• September 10 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (d. 1985)
• October 13 - Cornel Wilde, actor (d. 1989)
• December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor
• December 12 - Frank Sinatra, singer, actor (d. 1998)
• December 13 - Curd Jürgens, actor (d. 1982)

[edit] Film debuts

• Edna Purviance
• W.C. Fields
• Fannie Ward
• Pauline Frederick
• Mary Boland
• Valeska Suratt
• Marie Doro
• Laura Hope Crews
• Donald Brian
• Geraldine Farrar
• Charlotte Walker
• Douglas Fairbanks
• Elliott Dexter
• Charlotte Greenwood
• Erich Von Stroheim

[edit] Deaths

• January 10 - Marshall P. Wilder, diminutive stage and screen actor, age 55.
• April 26 – John Bunny, silent film comedian
• June 16 - Elmer Booth, silent screen actor brother of film editor Margaret Booth.
• October 31 - Blanche Walsh, stage actress appeared in Zukor's 3 reel feature "Resurrection" 1912