1914 in film

Events

• The 3,300-seat Strand Theater opens in New York City.
• May 8 – Paramount Pictures is formed.

Top grossing films

• The Squaw Man
• Tillie's Punctured Romance

Movies released

Movies released in 1914 include:

• The Squaw Man, starring Dustin Farnum
• Tillie's Punctured Romance, directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
• Gertie the Dinosaur – animated.

Births

• January 4 – Jane Wyman, actress
• January 5 – George Reeves, actor (d. 1959)
• January 6 – Danny Thomas, singer, actor, comedian (d. 1991)
• January 14 – Harold Russell, actor (d. 2002)
• February 4 – Ida Lupino, actress, director (d. 1995)
• February 9 – Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque performer, actress, writer (d. 1970)
• February 24 – Zachary Scott, actor (d. 1965)
• February 26 – Robert Alda, actor (d. 1986)
• March 2 – Martin Ritt, director (d. 1990)
• April 2 – Alec Guinness, actor (d. 2000)
• April 4 – Rosemary Lane, singer, actress (d. 1974)
• April 16 – John Hodiak, actor (d. 1955)
• May 24 – Lilli Palmer, actress (d. 1986)
• June 7 – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director (d. 1987)
• June 18 – E. G. Marshall, actor (d. 1998)
• August 2 – Beatrice Straight, actress (d. 2001)
• August 14 – Andrea Leeds, actress (d. 1984)
• August 31 – Richard Basehart – actor (d. 1984)
• September 10 – Robert Wise, director
• September 12 – Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)
• October 26 – Jackie Coogan, actor (d. 1984)
• October 30 – Ruth Hussey, actress
• December 10 – Dorothy Lamour, actress (d. 1996)
• December 13 – Larry Parks, actor (d. 1975)
• December 26 – Richard Widmark, actor
• December 30 – Jo Van Fleet, actress (d. 1996)

Deaths