1907 in film

Events

• Carl Laemmle of Paramount experiments with combining audio from phonographs with film. Laemmle's experiements lead to the German development of "Syncroscope." "Syncroscope" had several successful demonstrations, but was eventually abandoned.
• First Ben Hur film, directed by Sidney Olcott
• November 28 – In Haverville, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater (in a few years he had the largest theater chain in New England and in 1917 he founded his own production company, which eventually became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).

Births

• January 3 – Ray Milland, actor (d. 1986)
• January 16 – Alexander Knox, actor (d. 1995)
• January 20 – Barbara Stanwyck, actress (d. 1990)
• January 20 – Paula Wessley, actress (d. 2000)
• January 22 – Mary Dresselhuys, actress (d. 2004)
• February 15 – Cesar Romero, actor (d. 1994)
• February 17 – Buster Crabbe, actor (d. 1983)
• February 22 – Robert Young, actor (d. 1998)
• March 11 – Jessie Matthews, actress, singer (d. 1981)
• March 19 – Kent Smith, actor (d. 1985)
• April 3 – Iron Eyes Cody, actor (d. 1999)
• April 19 – Lina Basquette, actress (d. 1994)
• April 29 – Fred Zinnemann, director (d. 1997)
• May 12 – Katharine Hepburn, actress (d. 2003)
• May 22 – Laurence Olivier, actor (d. 1989)
• May 26 – John Wayne, actor (d. 1979)
• June 4 – Rosalind Russell, actress (d. 1976)
• June 16 – Jack Albertson, actor (d. 1981)
• June 24 – Martha Sleeper, actress (d. 1987)
• July 14 – Olive Borden, actress (d. 1947)
• July 16 – Barbara Stanwyck, actress (d. 1990)
• July 19 – Isabel Jewell, actress (d. 1972)
• July 27 – Ross Alexander, actor (d. 1937)
• August 3 – Adrienne Ames, actress (d. 1947)
• September 15 – Fay Wray, actress (d. 2004)
• September 29 – Gene Autry, actor (d. 1998)
• December 22 – Peggy Ashcroft, actress (d. 1991)

Deaths