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1917 in film

Index 1917 in film

1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. [1]

256 relations: A Kentucky Cinderella, A Little Princess (1917 film), A Man There Was, A Reckless Romeo, A Romance of the Redwoods, Abel Gance, Alan Crosland, Alexander Korda, Alice Pearce, All Aboard (film), Ann Rutherford, Antonio Moreno, Argentina, Barbary Sheep (film), Behind the Screen, Bela Lugosi, Ben Webster (actor), Bestia (film), Big Timber (film), Brcko in Zagreb, Brenda Joyce (actress), Bucking Broadway, Buster Keaton, Camille (1917 film), Cecil B. DeMille, Celeste Holm, Charlie Chaplin, Classical Hollywood cinema, Cleopatra (1917 film), Colleen Moore, Color photography, Coney Island (1917 film), Conrad Veidt, Croatia, Danielle Darrieux, Dean Martin, Desi Arnaz, Dombey and Son (film), Dorothy Davenport, Douglas Fairbanks, Earl Cameron (actor), Easy Street (film), Edna Purviance, El Apóstol, Elsie Ferguson, Emil Jannings, Eric Campbell (actor), Ernest Borgnine, Favoriten, Fay Compton, ..., Faye Emerson, Fear (1917 film), Feature film, First National Pictures, Florence La Badie, Frank Hansen's Fortune, Frankie Darro, Fred Mace, George Gaynes, George Lederer, Gloria Swanson, Golden Rule Kate, Googie Withers, Great Expectations (1917 film), Harold Lloyd, Harrison and Barrison, Harry Carey (actor), Hayford Hobbs, Helen Hayes, Helmut Dantine, Henny Porten, Henry VIII (film), Her Right to Live, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Herbert Lom, Hilde Krahl, His Wedding Night, Hurd Hatfield, Irene Vanbrugh, Ivan Abramson, Jack Pickford, Jack Standing, Jackie Coogan, Jane Wyman, Joan Fontaine, John Barrymore, John Ford, John S. Robertson, Joseph M. Schenck, June Allyson, Kidnapped (1917 film), Lally Bowers, Lena Horne, Leo Gorcey, Lillian Gish, List of American films of 1917, List of British films before 1920, List of French films of 1917, List of German films of 1895–1918, List of Hungarian films 1901–1947, List of Italian films of 1917, List of Polish films before 1930, List of Soviet films of 1917–21, List of Swedish films before 1930, Lists of Argentine films, Loews Cineplex Entertainment, Loretta Young, Lorna Gray, Louise Glaum, Lucille Bremer, Lupino Lane, Lydia (film), Macbeth (1916 film), Mack Sennett, Mae Costello, Margaret Marquis, Margo (actress), Marion Davies, Marjorie Rambeau, Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917), Marshall Neilan, Mary Garden, Mary Pickford, Matt Moore (actor), Maurice Elvey, May McAvoy, Maya Deren, Márton Rátkai, Mel Ferrer, Michael Curtiz, Mildred Harris, Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Manufacturing Co., Motion Picture Patents Company, Norma Talmadge, Norman Kerry, Nuts in May (film), Oh Doctor!, Old Folks at Home, One Law for Both, One of Many (film), Owen Nares, Paul Scardon, Peggy Hyland, Phyllis Diller, Pola Negri, Quirino Cristiani, Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917 film), Raymond Burr, Raymond McKee, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917 film), Richard Dix, Robert Harron, Robert Mitchum, Robert Wiene, Rolf Wenkhaus, Ronald Colman, Roscoe Arbuckle, Rudolf Biebrach, Ruth Clifford, Satan Triumphant, Skinner's Baby, Souls Triumphant, Stan Laurel, Stephen Andrew Lynch, Steve Cochran, Straight Shooting, Supreme Court of the United States, Susan Hayward, Taylor Holmes, Technicolor, Teddy at the Throttle, Thaïs (1917 Italian film), Thais (1917 American film), The Adventurer (1917 film), The Bad Boy (1917 film), The Butcher Boy (1917 film), The Clemenceau Affair, The Colonel (1917 film), The Cure (1917 film), The Devil-Stone, The Gay Lord Quex (film), The Greater Woman, The Gulf Between (1917 film), The Immigrant (1917 film), The Labour Leader, The Little American, The Live Wire (1917 film), The Man Without a Country (1917 film), The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1917 film), The Poor Little Rich Girl, The Primrose Ring, The Rough House, The Silent Man (film), The Sultan's Wife, The Tornado, The Torture of Silence, The Woman God Forgot, The Woman in White (1917 film), Theda Bara, Thomas Bentley, Thomas H. Ince, Thomas Lincoln Tally, Tom Sawyer (1917 film), Triangle Film Corporation, Trilby (1914 film), UFA GmbH, Uneasy Money, Valdemar Psilander, Valerie Hobson, Vera Zorina, Victor Sjöström, Viggo Larsen, Virginia Dale, Virginia Field, Virginia Grey, Vittorio De Sica, What Happened to Jones, When Love Was Blind, Wild and Woolly, William S. Hart, ZaSu Pitts, Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1913 in film, 1942 in film, 1961 in film, 1965 in film, 1966 in film, 1969 in film, 1975 in film, 1976 in film, 1982 in film, 1983 in film, 1984 in film, 1985 in film, 1986 in film, 1992 in film, 1993 in film, 1994 in film, 1995 in film, 1996 in film, 1997 in film, 1998 in film, 1999 in film, 2003 in film, 2004 in film, 2006 in film, 2007 in film, 2008 in film, 2009 in film, 2010 in film, 2011 in film, 2012 in film, 2013 in film, 2016 in film, 2017 in film. Expand index (206 more) »

A Kentucky Cinderella

A Kentucky Cinderella is a 1917 silent film adapted from an 1898 short story by Francis Hopkinson Smith.

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A Little Princess (1917 film)

A Little Princess is a 1917 American silent film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon the novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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A Man There Was

A Man There Was (Terje Vigen) is a 1917 Swedish drama directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen.

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A Reckless Romeo

A Reckless Romeo is a 1917 American short silent comedy film directed by and starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle.

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A Romance of the Redwoods

A Romance of the Redwoods is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford.

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Abel Gance

Abel Gance (25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor.

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Alan Crosland

Alan Crosland (August 10, 1894 – July 16, 1936) was an American stage actor and film director.

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Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda (born Sándor László Kellner, 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956), BFI Screenonline.

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Alice Pearce

Alice Pearce (October 16, 1917 – March 3, 1966) was an American actress.

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All Aboard (film)

All Aboard is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.

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Ann Rutherford

Therese Ann Rutherford (November 2, 1917 – June 11, 2012) was a Canadian-American actress in film, radio, and television.

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Antonio Moreno

Antonio "Tony" Moreno (born Antonio Garrido Monteagudo, September 26, 1887 – February 15, 1967) was a Spanish-born American actor and film director of the silent film era and through the 1950s.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Barbary Sheep (film)

Barbary Sheep is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Artcraft Pictures, an affiliate of Paramount Pictures.

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Behind the Screen

Behind the Screen is a 1916 American silent short comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, and also starring Eric Campbell and Edna Purviance.

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Bela Lugosi

Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.

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Ben Webster (actor)

Ben Webster (2 June 1864 – 26 February 1947) was an English-born actor, and the husband of actress Dame May Whitty, and father of the British-American stage actress, Margaret Webster.

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Bestia (film)

Bestia is a 1917 Polish silent film starring Pola Negri.

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Big Timber (film)

Big Timber is a 1917 American silent film Northwoods/drama produced by the Oliver Morosco Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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Brcko in Zagreb

Brcko in Zagreb (Brcko u Zagrebu) is a 1917 Croatian short comedy film directed by Arsen Maas.

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Brenda Joyce (actress)

Brenda Joyce (born Betty Graftina Leabo, February 25, 1917 – July 4, 2009) was an American film actress.

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Bucking Broadway

Bucking Broadway is a 1917 American western film directed by John Ford, probably his sixth feature film.

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Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.

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Camille (1917 film)

Camille is a 1917 American silent film based on the play adaptation of La Dame aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias) by Alexandre Dumas, ''fils'', first published in French as a novel in 1848 and as a play in 1852.

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Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.

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Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American stage, film and television actress.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Classical Hollywood cinema

Classical Hollywood cinema, classical Hollywood narrative, and classical continuity are terms used in film criticism which designate both a narrative and visual style of film-making which developed in and characterized American cinema between 1917 and the early 1960s, and eventually became the most powerful and pervasive style of film-making worldwide.

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Cleopatra (1917 film)

Cleopatra is a 1917 American silent historical drama film based on H. Rider Haggard's 1889 novel Cleopatra and the plays Cleopatre by Émile Moreau and Victorien Sardou and Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare.

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Colleen Moore

Colleen Moore (born Kathleen Morrison, August 19, 1899 – January 25, 1988) was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era.

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Color photography

Color (or colour) photography is photography that uses media capable of reproducing colors.

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Coney Island (1917 film)

Coney Island (also known as Fatty at Coney Island) is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton.

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Conrad Veidt

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and The Man Who Laughs (1928).

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea.

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Danielle Darrieux

Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017) was a French actress of stage, television and film, as well as a singer and dancer.

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Dean Martin

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor, comedian and film producer.

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Desi Arnaz

Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986), better known as Desi Arnaz or Desi Arnaz, Sr., was a Cuban-born American actor, musician, and television producer.

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Dombey and Son (film)

Dombey and Son is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Norman McKinnel, Lilian Braithwaite and Hayford Hobbs.

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Dorothy Davenport

Fannie Dorothy Davenport, Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, screenwriter, film director and producer.

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Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Earl Cameron (actor)

Earlston J. Cameron, CBE (born 8 August 1917), known as Earl Cameron, is a British actor, born in Bermuda and a long-time resident in England.

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Easy Street (film)

Easy Street is a 1917 short action-comedy film by Charlie Chaplin.

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Edna Purviance

Olga Edna Purviance (October 21, 1895 – January 13, 1958) was an American actress during the silent movie era.

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El Apóstol

El Apóstol (Spanish: "The Apostle") was a 1917 Argentine animated film utilizing cutout animation, and the world's first animated feature film.

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Elsie Ferguson

Elsie Louise Ferguson (August 19, 1883 – November 15, 1961) was an American stage and film actress.

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Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, 23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) was a German actor, popular in 1920s film in Hollywood.

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Eric Campbell (actor)

Alfred Eric Campbell (26 April 1879 – 20 December 1917), was a British actor.

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Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades.

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Favoriten

Favoriten, the 10th district of Vienna, Austria (German: 10. Bezirk, Favoriten), is located south of the central districts.

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Fay Compton

Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, CBE (18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978), known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress from a notable lineage of actors; her father was actor/manager Edward Compton; her mother Virginia Bateman was a distinguished member of the profession, as were her elder sister, the actress Viola Compton, and her uncles and aunts.

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Faye Emerson

Faye Margaret Emerson (July 8, 1917 – March 9, 1983) was an American film actress and television interviewer known as "The First Lady of Television." Beginning in 1941, she acted in many Warner Brothers films.

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Fear (1917 film)

Fear (German: Furcht) is a 1917 German silent horror film written and directed by Robert Wiene and starring Bruno Decarli, Conrad Veidt and Bernhard Goetzke.

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Feature film

A feature film is a film (also called a motion picture or movie) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole film to fill a program.

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First National Pictures

First National Pictures was an American motion picture production and distribution company.

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Florence La Badie

Florence La Badie (April 27, 1888 – October 13, 1917) was an American actress in the early days of the silent film era.

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Frank Hansen's Fortune

Frank Hansen's Fortune (German: Frank Hansens Glück) is a 1917 German silent western film directed by Viggo Larsen and starring Larsen, Lupu Pick and Kitty Dewall.

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Frankie Darro

Frankie Darro (born Frank Johnson, Jr.; December 22, 1917 – December 25, 1976) was an American actor and later in his career a stuntman.

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Fred Mace

Fred Mace (August 22, 1878 – February 21, 1917) was an American actor of the silent era.

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George Gaynes

George Gaynes (born George Jongejans; May 3, 1917 – February 15, 2016) was an American singer, actor and voice artist.

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George Lederer

George Lederer (c. 1862, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania − October 8, 1938) was an American producer and director on Broadway from 1894 to 1931.

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Gloria Swanson

Gloria May Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress and producer best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a reclusive silent film star, in the critically acclaimed 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.

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Golden Rule Kate

Golden Rule Kate is a 1917 American silent western drama film starring Louise Glaum, William Conklin, Jack Richardson, Mildred Harris, and John Gilbert.

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Googie Withers

Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers CBE, AO (12 March 191715 July 2011) was a British entertainer who had a lengthy career in theatre, film, and television.

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Great Expectations (1917 film)

Great Expectations is a lost 1917 silent drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola and Paul West, based on the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

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Harold Lloyd

Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer who is best known for his silent comedy films.

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Harrison and Barrison

Harrison and Barrison (Hungarian: Harrison és Barrison) is a 1917 Hungarian silent comedy film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Márton Rátkai, Dezsõ Gyárfás and Nusi Somogyi.

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Harry Carey (actor)

Henry DeWitt Carey II (January 16, 1878 – September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars.

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Hayford Hobbs

Hayford Hobbs was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director.

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Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes MacArthur (née Brown; October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned 80 years.

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Helmut Dantine

Helmut Dantine (7 October 1918 – 2 May 1982) was an Austrian-born American actor who often played Nazis in thriller films of the 1940s.

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Henny Porten

Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent era, and Germany's first major film star.

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Henry VIII (film)

Henry VIII is a 1911 British silent historical film directed by Will Barker and starring Arthur Bourchier, Herbert Tree and Violet Vanbrugh.

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Her Right to Live

Her Right to Live is a 1917 dramatic silent film released by the Vitagraph Studios.

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Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager.

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Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom (11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012) was a Czech-born British film and television actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939.

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Hilde Krahl

Hilde Krahl (10 January 1917 – 28 June 1999) was an Austrian film actress.

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His Wedding Night

His Wedding Night is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

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Hurd Hatfield

Hurd Hatfield (December 7, 1917 – December 26, 1998) was an American actor.

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Irene Vanbrugh

Dame Irene Vanbrugh DBE (2 December 1872 – 30 November 1949) was an English actress.

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Ivan Abramson

Ivan Abramson (1869 – September 15, 1934) was a director of American silent films active in the 1910s and 1920s.

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Jack Pickford

Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith; August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor, film director and producer.

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Jack Standing

Jack Standing (10 February 1886 – 25 October 1917) was an English actor.

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Jackie Coogan

John Leslie "Jackie" Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984) was an American actor and comedian who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films.

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Jane Wyman

Jane Wyman (born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007).

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Joan Fontaine

Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films.

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John Barrymore

John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor on stage, screen and radio.

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John Ford

John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director.

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John S. Robertson

John Stuart Robertson (14 June 1878 – 5 November 1964) was a Canadian born actor and later film director perhaps best known for his 1920 screen adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore.

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Joseph M. Schenck

Joseph Michael Schenck (December 25, 1876 – October 22, 1961) was a Russian-born American film studio executive.

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June Allyson

June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman; October 7, 1917July 8, 2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress, dancer, and singer.

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Kidnapped (1917 film)

Kidnapped is a 1917 silent film based on the novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, directed by Alan Crosland at Edison Studios.

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Lally Bowers

Kathleen "Lally" Bowers (21 January 1917 – 18 July 1984) was an English actress.

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Leo Gorcey

Leo Bernard Gorcey (June 3, 1917– June 2, 1969) was an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying the leader of the group of young hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids, and as an adult, The Bowery Boys.

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Lillian Gish

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer.

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List of American films of 1917

A list of American films of 1917 is a compilation of American films released in 1917.

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List of British films before 1920

List of British films from 1888 to 1919.

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List of French films of 1917

A list of films produced in France in 1917.

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List of German films of 1895–1918

This is a list of the most notable films produced in the German Empire until 1918, in year order.

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List of Hungarian films 1901–1947

This is a list collecting the most notable films produced in Hungary and in the Hungarian language during 1901–1948.

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List of Italian films of 1917

A list of films produced in Italy in 1917 (see 1917 in film).

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List of Polish films before 1930

List of films produced in the Cinema of Poland before 1930.

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List of Soviet films of 1917–21

A list of films produced in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1921.

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List of Swedish films before 1930

This is a list of the earliest films produced in Sweden, mostly silent films before 1930.

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Lists of Argentine films

This is an index to pages listing Argentine films ordered by year of release.

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Loews Cineplex Entertainment

Loews Theatres, also known as Loews Incorporated (originally Loew's), founded on June 23, 1904 by Marcus Loew, was the oldest theater chain operating in North America until it merged with AMC Theatres on January 26, 2006.

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Loretta Young

Loretta Young (born Gretchen Young; January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress.

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Lorna Gray

Lorna Gray (July 26, 1917 – April 30, 2017) was an American film actress known for her comic roles, and later as a villainess.

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Louise Glaum

Louise Glaum (September 4, 1888 – November 25, 1970) was an American actress.

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Lucille Bremer

Lucille Bremer (February 21, 1917 – April 16, 1996) was an American film actress and dancer.

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Lupino Lane

Lupino Lane (16 June 1892 – 10 November 1959) was an English actor and theatre manager, and a member of the famous Lupino family, which eventually included his niece, the screenwriter/director/actress Ida Lupino.

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Lydia (film)

Lydia is a 1941 drama film, directed by Julien Duvivier.

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Macbeth (1916 film)

Macbeth is a silent, black-and-white 1916 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth.

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Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American film director and producer, known as the King of Comedy.

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Mae Costello

Mae Costello (August 13, 1882 – August 2, 1929) was an American stage and film actress of the early twentieth-century.

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Margaret Marquis

Margaret Alice Marquis (August 19, 1919 – January 19, 1993) was a Canadian-American film actress.

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Margo (actress)

Margo (May 10, 1917 – July 17, 1985), sometimes known as Margo Albert, was a Mexican-American actress and dancer.

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Marion Davies

Marion Cecilia Davies (née Douras, January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist.

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Marjorie Rambeau

Marjorie Burnet Rambeau (July 15, 1889 – July 6, 1970) was an American film and stage actress.

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Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917)

Marsha Hunt (born Marcia Virginia Hunt; October 17, 1917) is a retired American actress, model, and activist.

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Marshall Neilan

Marshall Ambrose "Mickey" Neilan (April 11, 1891 – October 27, 1958) was an American motion picture actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer.

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Mary Garden

Mary Garden (20 February 1874 – 3 January 1967), was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century.

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Mary Pickford

Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer.

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Matt Moore (actor)

Matthew Moore (January 8, 1888 – January 21, 1960) was an Irish-born American actor and director.

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Maurice Elvey

Maurice Elvey (11 November 1887 – 28 August 1967) was the most prolific film director in British history.

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May McAvoy

May McAvoy (September 8, 1899 – April 26, 1984) was an American actress who worked mainly during the silent-film era.

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Maya Deren

Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleonora Derenkowska (Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська), was a Ukrainian-born American filmmaker and one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Márton Rátkai

Márton Rátkai (18 November 1881 – 18 September 1951) was a Hungarian actor and comedian.

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Mel Ferrer

Melchor Gastón Ferrer (August 25, 1917 – June 2, 2008) was an American actor and director of stage and screen, film producer and the first husband of Audrey Hepburn.

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Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz (born Manó Kaminer; December 24, 1886 April 11, 1962) was a Hungarian-born American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history.

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Mildred Harris

Mildred Harris (November 29, 1901 – July 20, 1944) was an American film actress during the early part of the 20th century.

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Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Manufacturing Co.

Motion Picture Patents Co.

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Motion Picture Patents Company

The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and terminated seven years later in 1915 after conflicts within the industry, was a trust of all the major USA film companies and local foreign-branches (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope, Lubin Manufacturing, Kalem Company, Star Film Paris, American Pathé), the leading film distributor (George Kleine) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak.

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Norma Talmadge

Norma Marie Talmadge (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era.

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Norman Kerry

Norman Kerry (born Arnold Kaiser, June 16, 1894 – January 12, 1956) was an American actor whose career spanned over twenty-five years in the motion picture industry beginning in the silent era at the end of World War I.

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Nuts in May (film)

Nuts in May (1917) is a silent comedy short, directed by Robin Williamson, produced by Isadore Bernstein, and featuring Stan Laurel, billed as Stan Jefferson, in his onscreen debut.

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Oh Doctor!

Oh Doctor! is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film directed by and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton.

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Old Folks at Home

"Old Folks at Home" (also known as "Swanee River", "Swanee Ribber", or "Suwannee River") is a minstrel song written by Stephen Foster in 1851.

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One Law for Both

One Law for Both is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Ivan Abramson.

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One of Many (film)

One of Many is a 1917 film directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Frances Nelson with Niles Welch, Mary Mersch, Caroline Harris and Harold Entwistle.

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Owen Nares

Owen Ramsay Nares (11 August 1888 in Maiden Erlegh, Berkshire, England – 30 July 1943 in Brecon, Brecknockshire, Wales) had a long stage and film career.

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Paul Scardon

Paul Scardon (6 May 1874 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia – 17 January 1954 in Fontana, California) was an actor, a producer, and a director on both Australian and New York stages.

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Peggy Hyland

Peggy Hyland (neé Gladys Hutchinson) (11 June 1884 – ?) was an English silent film actress who was born in Harborne, Birmingham, Warwickshire.

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Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Ada Driver (July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012), better known as Phyllis Diller, was an American actress and stand-up comedian, best known for her eccentric stage persona, her self-deprecating humor, her wild hair and clothes, and her exaggerated, cackling laugh.

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Pola Negri

Pola Negri (born Barbara Apolonia Chałupec; 3 January 18971 August 1987) was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles.

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Quirino Cristiani

Quirino Cristiani (July 2, 1896 – August 2, 1984) was an Italian-born Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though the only copies of these two films were lost in a fire.

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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917 film)

Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman is a 1917 American silent film starring John Barrymore and Evelyn Brent.

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Raymond Burr

Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917September 12, 1993) was a Canadian-American actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.

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Raymond McKee

Raymond McKee born Eldon Raymond McKee (December 7, 1892 – October 3, 1984) was an American actor.

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917 film)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 1917 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon the novel of the same name by Kate Douglas Wiggin.

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Richard Dix

Richard Dix (July 18, 1893 – September 20, 1949) was an American motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent and sound film.

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Robert Harron

Robert Emmett "Bobby" Harron (April 12, 1893 – September 5, 1920) was an American motion picture actor of the early silent film era.

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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer.

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Robert Wiene

Robert Wiene (27 April 1873 – 17 July 1938) was a film director of the German silent cinema.

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Rolf Wenkhaus

Rolf Wenkhaus (9 September 1917 – 31 January 1942) was a German child actor who is most likely recalled for his role of Emil Tischbein in the 1931 film Emil and the Detectives.

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Ronald Colman

Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, before emigrating to the USA, and having a successful Hollywood film career, he was most popular during the 1920s, 1930's, and 1940's.

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Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter.

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Rudolf Biebrach

Rudolf Biebrach (1866–1938) was a German actor and film director.

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Ruth Clifford

Ruth Clifford (February 17, 1900 – November 30, 1998) was an American actress of leading roles in silent films, whose career lasted from silent days into the television era.

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Satan Triumphant

Satan Triumphant (Сатана ликующий, translit. Satana likuyushchiy) is a 1917 silent film in Russian directed by Yakov Protazanov.

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Skinner's Baby

Skinner's Baby is a 1917 American silent comedy film starring Bryant Washburn.

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Souls Triumphant

Souls Triumphant is a 1917 American drama film directed by John B. O'Brien and starring Lillian Gish.

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Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and film director, who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.

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Stephen Andrew Lynch

Stephen Andrew Lynch (September 3, 1882 – October 4, 1969), known more commonly as S.A. Lynch, was an early motion picture industry pioneer.

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Steve Cochran

Steve Cochran (born Robert Alexander Cochran, May 25, 1917 – June 15, 1965) was an American film, television and stage actor.

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Straight Shooting

Straight Shooting is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner; June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress and singer.

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Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes (May 16, 1878 – September 30, 1959) was an actor who appeared in over 100 Broadway plays in his five-decade career.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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Teddy at the Throttle

Teddy at the Throttle is a 1917 American silent comedy short film starring Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson, and Wallace Beery.

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Thaïs (1917 Italian film)

Thaïs is a 1917 silent film directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia.

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Thais (1917 American film)

Thais is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the 1890 novel ''Thaïs'' by Anatole France.

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The Adventurer (1917 film)

The Adventurer is an American short comedy film made in 1917 written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, and is the last of the twelve films made under contract for the Mutual Film Corporation.

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The Bad Boy (1917 film)

The Bad Boy is a 1917 American silent crime drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Robert Harron, Richard Cummings, and Mildred Harris.

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The Butcher Boy (1917 film)

The Butcher Boy is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton.

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The Clemenceau Affair

The Clemenceau Affair (Il processo Clémenceau) is a 1917 silent Italian adventure film directed by Alfredo De Antoni.

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The Colonel (1917 film)

The Colonel (Az Ezredes) is a 1917 Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz.

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The Cure (1917 film)

The Cure is a 1917 short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.

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The Devil-Stone

The Devil-Stone is a 1917 American silent romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and co-written by his mother Beatrice deMille and his sometime lover Jeanie MacPherson and starring Geraldine Farrar.

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The Gay Lord Quex (film)

The Gay Lord Quex is a 1917 British silent comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Ben Webster, Irene Vanbrugh and Lilian Braithwaite.

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The Greater Woman

The Greater Woman is a lost 1917 silent film drama starring Broadway actress Marjorie Rambeau in her first motion picture beginning a 40-year screen career.

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The Gulf Between (1917 film)

The Gulf Between is a 1917 American comedy drama film that was the first motion picture made in Technicolor, the fourth feature-length color movie, and the first feature-length color movie produced in the United States.

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The Immigrant (1917 film)

The Immigrant is a 1917 American silent romantic comedy short.

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The Labour Leader

The Labour Leader is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Fred Groves, Fay Compton and Owen Nares.

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The Little American

The Little American is a 1917 American silent romantic war drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

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The Live Wire (1917 film)

The Live Wire is a 1917 British short silent comedy film directed by George Dewhurst and starring Ronald Colman and Phyllis Titmuss.

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The Man Without a Country (1917 film)

The Man Without a Country is a 1917 American silent film adaptation of Edward Everett Hale's short story The Man Without a Country.

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The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach

The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach (German: Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach) is a 1917 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Emil Jannings and Ludwig Trautmann.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1917 film)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (German: Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray) is a 1917 German silent fantasy film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Bernd Aldor, Ernst Pittschau, and Ernst Ludwig.

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The Poor Little Rich Girl

The Poor Little Rich Girl is a 1917 American comedy-drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur.

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The Primrose Ring

The Primrose Ring is a novel by Ruth Sawyer, published first in 1915 and illustrated by Fanny Munsell.

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The Rough House

The Rough House is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring both Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton.

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The Silent Man (film)

The Silent Man is a 1917 American Western silent film directed by William S. Hart and written by Charles Kenyon.

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The Sultan's Wife

The Sultan's Wife is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Bobby Vernon and Gloria Swanson.

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The Tornado

The Tornado is a 1917 American short Western film directed and co-written by John Ford.

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The Torture of Silence

The Torture of Silence (Mater dolorosa) is a 1917 French silent drama film directed by Abel Gance.

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The Woman God Forgot

The Woman God Forgot is a 1917 American silent romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

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The Woman in White (1917 film)

The Woman in White is a 1917 American drama film that was directed by Ernest C. Warde.

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Theda Bara

Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.

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Thomas Bentley

Thomas Bentley (1884 – 1966) was a British film director.

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Thomas H. Ince

Thomas Harper Ince (November 16, 1880 – November 19, 1924) was an American silent film producer, director, screenwriter, and actor.

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Thomas Lincoln Tally

Thomas Lincoln Tally (1861 – November 24, 1945) on or near April 16, 1902, opened the Electric Theatre in Los Angeles, the first movie theatre in that city and the first movie theater in California known to have been built from the ground up inside a larger building on the ground floor.

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Tom Sawyer (1917 film)

Tom Sawyer is a 1917 American silent comedy-drama/adventure film starring Jack Pickford, Robert Gordon, and Clara Horton; it is based on Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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Triangle Film Corporation

Triangle Film Corporation (also known as Triangle Motion Picture Company) was a major American motion-picture studio, founded in July 1915 in Culver City, California and terminated 7 years later in 1922.

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Trilby (1914 film)

Trilby is a 1914 British silent drama film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Viva Birkett and Charles Rock.

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UFA GmbH

UFA GmbH is a German film and television production company that unites all production activities of Bertelsmann in Germany.

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Uneasy Money

Uneasy Money is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 17 March 1916 by D. Appleton & Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 4 October 1917 by Methuen & Co., London.

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Valdemar Psilander

Valdemar Psilander (9 May 1884 – 6 March 1917) was a Danish silent film actor, who was the highest paid performer of his period and received critical acclaim as the greatest male lead during the golden era of Danish cinema.

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Valerie Hobson

Valerie Hobson, Baroness Profumo (Italy),(14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998), was an Irish-born actress who appeared in a number of films during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

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Vera Zorina

Vera Zorina (January 2, 1917 – April 9, 2003) was a Norwegian ballerina, theatre and film actress, and choreographer.

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Victor Sjöström

Victor David Sjöström (in the United States sometimes known as Victor Seastrom; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960) was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor.

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Viggo Larsen

Viggo Larsen (14 August 1880 – 6 January 1957) was a Danish film actor, director and producer.

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Virginia Dale

Virginia Dale (July 1, 1917 – October 3, 1994) was an American actress and dancer.

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Virginia Field

Virginia Field (born Margaret Cynthia Field, 4 November 1917 – 2 January 1992) was a British-born film actress.

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Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey (March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004) was an American actress who appeared in over 100 films and a number of radio and television shows from the 1930s through to the early-1980s.

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Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.

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What Happened to Jones

What Happened to Jones is a 1926 silent film comedy directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny.

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When Love Was Blind

When Love Was Blind is a 1911 American silent short drama film produced by the Thanhouser Company.

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Wild and Woolly

Wild and Woolly is a 1917 American silent Western comedy film which tells the story of one man's personal odyssey from cowboy-obsessed Easterner to Western tough guy.

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William S. Hart

William Surrey Hart (December 6, 1864 – June 23, 1946) was an American silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer.

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ZaSu Pitts

ZaSu Pitts (born Eliza Susan Pitts; January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963) was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with the advent of sound films.

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Zsa Zsa Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor (born Sári Gábor; February 6, 1917 – December 18, 2016) was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite. Her sisters were actresses Eva and Magda Gabor. Gabor began her stage career in Vienna and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936.Hischak, Thomas S. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, p.271 She emigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1941. Becoming a sought-after actress with "European flair and style", she was considered to have a personality that "exuded charm and grace". Her first film role was a supporting role in Lovely to Look At. She later acted in We're Not Married! and played one of her few leading roles in the John Huston-directed film, Moulin Rouge (1952). Huston would later describe her as a "creditable" actress. Outside her acting career, Gabor was known for her extravagant Hollywood lifestyle, her glamorous personality, and her many marriages. In total, Gabor had nine husbands, including hotel magnate Conrad Hilton and actor George Sanders. She once stated, "Men have always liked me and I have always liked men. But I like a mannish man, a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman—not just a man with muscles.".

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1913 in film

1913 was a particularly fruitful year for film as an art form, and is often cited one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1917.

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1942 in film

The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.

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1961 in film

The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.

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1965 in film

The year 1965 in film involved some significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office.

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1966 in film

The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.

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1969 in film

The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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1975 in film

The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.

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1976 in film

The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.

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1982 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1982 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1983 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1983 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1984 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1985 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1985 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1986 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1986 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1992 in film

The year 1992 in film involved many significant film releases.

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1993 in film

The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm.

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1994 in film

This is a list of films released in 1994.

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1995 in film

This is a list of films released in 1995.

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1996 in film

The year 1996 involved many significant films.

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1997 in film

The year 1997 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster success Titanic, and the beginning of the film studio DreamWorks.

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1998 in film

The year 1998 in film involved many significant films including; Shakespeare in Love (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Saving Private Ryan, American History X, The Truman Show, Primary Colors, ''Rushmore'', Rush Hour, There's Something About Mary, The Big Lebowski, and Terrence Malick's directorial return in The Thin Red Line.

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1999 in film

The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, the science-fiction hit The Matrix, the Deep Canvas-pioneering Disney animated feature Tarzan and Best Picture-winner American Beauty and the well-received The Green Mile, as well as the animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2, Stuart Little and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

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2003 in film

The year 2003 in film involved some significant events.

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2004 in film

The year 2004 in film involved some significant events.

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2006 in film

The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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2007 in film

The following is an overview of events in 2007 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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2008 in film

The year 2008 involved many major movie events.

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2009 in film

The year 2009 saw the release of many films.

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2010 in film

In the year 2010, there was a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking after the success of Avatar in the format, with releases such as Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, Jackass 3D, all animated films, with numerous other titles being released in 3D formats.

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2011 in film

The following is an overview of the events of 2011 in film, including the highest-grossing films, film festivals, award ceremonies and a list of films released and notable deaths.

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2012 in film

The following tables list films released in 2012.

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2013 in film

The following tables list films released in 2013.

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2016 in film

2016 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and deaths.

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2017 in film

This is an overview of events in the film world during 2017, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and lists of films released and deaths.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_in_film

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