1919 in film

Events

• February 5 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists
• Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader, becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture.

Top grossing films

Movies released

Movies released in 1919 include:

• Back Stage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Blind Husbands, directed by Erich von Stroheim.
• Broken Blossoms starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess; directed by D.W. Griffith.
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt.
• Daddy-Long-Legs, starring Mary Pickford.
• A Day's Pleasure, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Homesteader
• Madame DuBarry, starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings.
• Male and Female, starring Gloria Swanson; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
• The Garage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Shackleton's Expedition to the Antarctic (documentary)
• Sunnyside, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Sentimental Bloke (a)
• True Heart Susie, starring Lillian Gish.

Births

• January 1 – Carole Landis, actress (d. 1948)
• January 13 – Robert Stack, actor (d. 2003)
• January 21 – Jinx Falkenburg, model, actress (d. 2003)
• January 23 – Ernie Kovacs, comedian, actor (d. 1962)
• February 5 – Red Buttons, actor
• February 5  – Tim Holt, actor (d. 1973)
• February 11 – Eva Gabor, actress (d. 1995)
• February 18 – Jack Palance, actor
• March 2 – Jennifer Jones, actress
• March 29 – Eileen Heckart, actress (d. 2001)
• April 13 – Howard Keel, actor
• April 29 – Celeste Holm, actress
• May 8 – Lex Barker, actor (d. 1973)
• May 23 – Betty Garrett, actress
• June 12 – Uta Hagen, actress (d. 2004)
• June 14 – Sam Wanamaker, director, actor (d. 1993)
• June 19 – Pauline Kael, film critic (d. 2001)
• June 19 – Louis Jourdan, actor
• June 29 – Slim Pickens, actor (d. 1983)
• July 7 – Jon Pertwee, actor (d. 1996)
• July 26 – Virginia Gilmore, actress (d. 1986)
• August 2 – Nehemiah Persoff, actor
• August 8 – Dino De Laurentis, producer
• September 18 – Diana Lewis, actress (d. 1997)
• September 26 – Barbara Britton, actress (d. 1980)
• October 5 – Donald Pleasence, actor (d. 1995)
• November 13 – Mary Beth Hughes, actress (d. 1995)
• November 14 – Veronica Lake, actress (d. 1973)
• November 15 – Nova Pilbeam, actress
• November 20 – Evelyn Keyes, actress

Deaths