1918 in film
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Events
- Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband.
Top grossing films
- Mickey
- Tarzan of the Apes
Movies released
Movies released in 1918 include:
- Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, starring Mary Pickford.
- The Bell Boy – a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
- The Cook – a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
- A Dog's Life, a Charlie Chaplin short.
- Hearts of the World, directed by D.W. Griffith.
- The House of Mirth
- Movie, starring Mabel Normand
- Out West – a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
- Shoulder Arms, a Charlie Chaplin film.
- The Sinking of the Lusitania – a short animated propaganda film by Winsor McCay.
- Salomé, starring Theda Bara.
- Stella Maris, starring Mary Pickford.
- Tarzan of the Apes, starring Elmo Lincoln and Enid Markey
- Triple Trouble, a Charlie Chaplin short.
Births
- January 29 – John Forsythe, actor
- February 16 – Patty Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters
- March 1 – Roger Delgado, actor (d. 1973)
- March 9 – Mickey Spillane, writer, actor
- April 17 – Anne Shirley, actress (d. 1993)
- April 17 – William Holden, actor (d. 1981)
- May 14 – June Duprez, actress (d. 1984)
- May 26 – John Dall, actor (d. 1971)
- June 30 – Susan Hayward, actress (d. 1975)
- July 6 – Sebastian Cabot, actor (d. 1977)
- July 14 – Ingmar Bergman, actor, writer, director
- July 18 – Jane Frazee, singer, actress (d. 1985)
- July 26 – Marjorie Lord, actress
- August 9 – Robert Aldrich, director (d. 1983)
- August 17 – Evelyn Ankers, actress (d. 1985)
- September 5 – Rin Tin Tin, canine actor (d. 1932)
- September 21 – Rand Brooks, actor (d. 2003)
- October 9 – Lila Kedrova, actress (d. 2000)
- October 13 – Robert Walker, actor (d. 1951)
- October 17 – Rita Hayworth, actress (d. 1987)
- October 27 – Teresa Wright, actress
- November 4 – Art Carney, actor (d. 2003)
- November 4 – Cameron Mitchell, actor (d. 1994)
- November 30 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor
- December 20 – Audrey Totter, actress
Deaths
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