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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Films released in 1923 4 Short film series 5 Animated short film series 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Film Debuts

[edit] 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.

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

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	The Covered Wagon
2.	The Ten Commandments
3.	The Hunchback of Notre Dame
4.	Safety Last
5.	Daddy
6.	Homeward Bound
7.	The Ne'er Do-Well
8.	The Pilgrim

[edit] Films released in 1923

• Ashes of Vengeance, starring Norma Talmadge
• The Covered Wagon
• The Daring Years, starring Mildred Harris, Charles Emmett Mack and Clara Bow
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney
• Daddy starring Jackie Coogan
• The Lights of London
• Our Hospitality, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• The Pilgrim, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Purple Highway, starring Madge Kennedy, Monte Blue, Vincent Coleman and Pedro de Cordoba
• Safety Last!, starring Harold Lloyd. In one scene, Lloyd is seen climbing around and hanging off the side of a tall building, including a very famous scene where he hangs off a clock. Lloyd did all of his own stunts, and worked without a safety net.
• Salomé, starring Alla Nazimova; directed by Charles Bryant
• Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination (aka Warning Shadows), directed by Arthur Robison
• Scaramouche (1923 film) Starring Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Ingraham
• Song of Love (1923 film), starring Norma Talmadge
• Souls for Sale, starring Richard Dix and Eleanor Boardman
• Die Straße (The Street), directed by Karl Grune
• The Ten Commandments, starring Theodore Roberts; directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• Why Worry?, starring Harold Lloyd
• Within The Law, starring Norma Talmadge
• A Woman of Paris, starring Edna Purviance; directed by Charles Chaplin

[edit] Short film series

• Charlie Chaplin (1914-1923)
• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1934)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)
• Alice Comedies
  • Alice's Wonderland
• The Red Head Comedies (1923).

[edit] Births

• January 7 - Pinkas Braun, actor, director
• January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan, actress (d. 1992)
• January 19 - Jean Stapleton, actress
• January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky writer (d. 1981)
• February 2 - Bonita Granville, actress (d. 1988)
• February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, director
• February 21 – Lola Flores, actress (d. 1995)
• February 28 - Charles Durning, actor
• April 12 - Ann Miller, dancer, actress (d. 2004)
• May 7 - Anne Baxter, actress (d. 1985)
• July 22 - Mukesh, singer (d. 1976)
• August 3 - Jean Hagen, actress (d. 1977)
• August 10 - Rhonda Fleming, actress
• August 29 - Richard Attenborough, English actor and director
• September 7 - Peter Lawford, actor (d. 1984)
• October 4 - Charlton Heston, actor (d. 2008)
• October 5 - Glynis Johns, actress
• October 16 - Linda Darnell, actress (d. 1965)
• November 9 - Dorothy Dandridge, singer, actress (d. 1965)
• November 28 - Gloria Grahame, actress (d. 1981)

[edit] Deaths

• January 18 – Wallace Reid American actor
• March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
• May 21 - Charles Kent, veteran actor & director
• June 11 - Porter Strong, American silent film actor
• June 17 - Macey Harlan, screen actor
• July 30 - Sir Charles Hawtrey, veteran British actor
• November 20 - Allen Holubar, silent film actor and director
• November 30 - Martha Mansfield, American actress

[edit] Film Debuts

• Johnny Arthur
• Gary Cooper
• Marlene Dietrich
• William Haines
• Jack Oakie
• Fay Wray