Overview of the events of 1923 in film
Overview of the events of 1923 in film
This is an overview of 1923 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top eight films released in 1923 by U.S. gross are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1923
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
The Ten Commandments
Paramount
$4,169,798[1]
2
The Covered Wagon
$3,500,000[2]
3
Safety Last! The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Pathé Exchange Universal
$1,500,000[2]
4
Scaramouche
Metro
$1,000,000[3]
5
Adam's Rib
Paramount
$881,206[1]
6
Main Street
Warner Bros.
$510,000[4]
7
The Gold Diggers
$470,000[4]
8
Tiger Rose
$466,000[4]
Notable films released in 1923
American films unless stated otherwise
A
B
The Balloonatic , directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
Barsoum Looking for a Job , directed by Mohammed Bayoumi, starring Bishara Wakim – (Egypt )
The Bells , directed by Edwin Greenwood , based on the 1867 play The Polish Jew by Erckmann-Chatrian [5] – (GB )
The Bishop of the Ozarks (lost), directed by Finis Fox [5]
Black Oxen , directed by Frank Lloyd , starring Corinne Griffith
The Blizzard (lost), directed by Mauritz Stiller – (Sweden )
Blood and Soul (Chi to Rei) , directed by Kenji Mizoguchi [5] – (Japan )
The Blue Lagoon (lost), directed by William Bowden and Dick Cruikshanks , starring Molly Adair and Arthur Pusey - (GB / South Africa )
Bonnie Prince Charlie (lost), directed by Charles Calvert , starring Ivor Novello and Gladys Cooper – (GB )
The Brass Bottle (lost), directed by Maurice Tourneur
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D
E
F
G
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The Lady Owner , directed by Walter West – (GB )
The Last Moment (lost), directed by J. Parker Read Jr., starring Henry Hull , Doris Kenyon and Louis Wolheim
Little Old New York , directed by Sidney Olcott , starring Marion Davies
The Lost Soul , directed by Hugo Werner-Kahle [8] – (Austria )
The Love Nest , directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots , directed by Denison Clift , starring Fay Compton – (GB )
M
Main Street (lost), directed by Harry Beaumont
The Man in the Iron Mask (Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske) , directed by Max Glass – (Germany )
The Merchant of Venice (Der Kaufmann von Venedig) , directed by Peter Paul Felner , starring Werner Krauss and Henny Porten – (Germany )
Merry-Go-Round , directed by Erich von Stroheim , starring Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry
Miss Suwanna of Siam (Nang Sao Suwan) (lost), directed by Henry MacRae
The Monkey's Paw , directed by Manning Haynes , based on the 1902 short story by W. W. Jacobs – (GB )
Mysteries of a Barbershop (Mysterien eines Friseursalons) , directed by Erich Engel – (Germany )
The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu , 15-part serial directed by A. E. Coleby [9] – (GB )
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Raskolnikow , directed by Robert Wiene – (Germany )
The Red Inn (L'auberge rouge) , directed by Jean Epstein , based on the 1831 short story by Honoré de Balzac (remade in 1951)[11] – (France )
Red Lights , directed by Clarence G. Badger , starring Marie Prevost , based on the play The Rear Car by Edward Everett Rose [12]
Le Retour à la Raison (Return to Reason) , directed by Man Ray – (France )
Rosita , directed by Ernst Lubitsch , starring Mary Pickford
La Roue (The Wheel) , directed by Abel Gance – (France )
Rupert of Hentzau (lost), directed by Victor Heerman
S
Safety Last! , directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor , starring Harold Lloyd
Salomé , directed by Charles Bryant , starring Alla Nazimova
Scaramouche , directed by Rex Ingram , Starring Ramón Novarro , Alice Terry and Lewis Stone
Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination (Shadows - a Nocturnal Hallucination) , directed by Arthur Robison – (Germany )
The Shock , directed by Lambert Hillyer , starring Lon Chaney
The Shriek of Araby , directed by F. Richard Jones , starring Ben Turpin
The Sign of Four , directed by Maurice Elvey , starring Eille Norwood , based on the 1890 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle – (GB )
Slave of Desire , directed by George D. Baker , starring Bessie Love , based on the 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin by Honoré de Balzac
Souls for Sale , directed by Rupert Hughes , starring Eleanor Boardman , Mae Busch and Richard Dix
A Spectre Haunts Europe , directed by Vladimir Gardin , based on the 1842 short story The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe [13] – (U.S.S.R. )
Squibs M.P. , directed by George Pearson , starring Betty Balfour – (GB )
The Street (Die Straße) , directed by Karl Grune – (Germany )
Suzanna , directed by F. Richard Jones , starring Mabel Normand
T
The Ten Commandments , directed by Cecil B. DeMille , starring Theodore Roberts
This Freedom , directed by Denison Clift , starring Fay Compton and Clive Brook – (GB )
Three Ages , directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery
Three Wise Fools , directed by King Vidor
Through Fire and Water , directed by Thomas Bentley , starring Clive Brook and Flora Le Breton – (GB )
Tiger Rose , directed by Sidney Franklin (director) , starring Lenore Ulric
The Treasure (Der Schatz) , directed by G. W. Pabst – (Germany )
Trilby , directed by James Young , based on the 1894 novel by George du Maurier [14]
Tut-Tut and his Terrible Tomb , directed by Bertram Phillips – (GB )
U
W
While Paris Sleeps (lost), directed by Maurice Tourneur , starring Lon Chaney and John Gilbert , based on a novelThe Glory of Love by Leslie Beresford[15]
The White Shadow , directed by Graham Cutts , starring Betty Compson and Clive Brook – (GB )
The White Sister , directed by Henry King , starring Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman
Why Worry? , directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor , starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston
Wild Bill Hickok , directed by Clifford Smith, starring William S. Hart
Within the Law , directed by Frank Lloyd , starring Norma Talmadge
A Woman of Paris , written and directed by Charles Chaplin , starring Edna Purviance
Woman to Woman (lost), directed by Graham Cutts , starring Betty Compson and Clive Brook – (GB )