[edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) [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 [edit] Animated short film series [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
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