1902 in film

Events

• March 10 – Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
• Georges Méliès creates the legendary film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune), which in one scene features the animated human face of the moon being struck in the eye by a rocket.

Births

• January 31 -Tallulah Bankhead, actress (d. 1968)
• March 28 – Flora Robson, actress (d. 1984)
• April 1 – Mary Miles Minter, actress (d. 1984)
• May 2 – Brian Aherne, actor (d. 1986)
• May 3 – Walter Slezak, actor (d. 1983)
• May 10 – David O. Selznick, producer (d. 1965)
• May 10 – Anatole Litvak, director (d. 1974)
• May 15 – Anny Ondra, actress (d. 1987)
• May 30 – Stepin Fetchit, actor, dancer (d. 1985)
• June 5 – Walter Plunkett, costume designer (d. 1982)
• July 1 – William Wyler, director (d. 1981)
• July 7 – Vittorio De Sica, actor, director (d. 1974)
• July 26 – Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne (d. 1964)
• August 10 – Norma Shearer, actress (d. 1983)
• August 10 – Curt Siodmak, screenwriter (d. 2000)
• August 11 – Lloyd Nolan, actor (d. 1985)
• August 22 – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
• September 5 – Darryl F. Zanuck, producer, writer, director (d. 1979)
• September 22 – John Houseman, actor (d. 1988)
• September 28 – Ed Sullivan, television host, actor (d. 1974)
• October 5 – Larry Fine, of The Three Stooges (d. 1975)
• October 28 – Elsa Lanchester, actress (d. 1986)
• December 9 – Margaret Hamilton, actress(d. 1985)

Deaths