1903 in film

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The year 1903 in film involved many significant events in cinema.

Events

  • Thomas Edison demolishes "America's First Movie Studio", the Black Maria.
  • The three elder Warner Bros. begin in the exhibition business and open their first theater, the Cascade.
  • Gaston Méliès, Georges' brother, opens a branch of Star Film in New York to defend its production's copyrights.
  • Adolph Zukor and Marcus Loew partner with Mitchell Mark to expand his chain of movie theaters.
  • William N. Selig's war film A Soldier's Dream is released. The film shows soldiers playing cards and music around a campfire. Scholars have speculated that the double-exposed image used to create one soldier's dream sequence may have been inspired by Méliès.

Films released in 1903

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  • Faust and Mephistopheles, directed by Alice Guy – (France)
  • From Show Girl to Burlesque Queen, directed by A. E. Weed – (US)

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Births

Month Date Name Country Profession Died
January 6 Francis L. Sullivan UK Actor 1956
6 Stanley Smith US Actor, Singer 1974
10 Violet Wilkey US Actress 1976
17 Warren Hull US Actor, Singer 1974
18 Werner Hinz Germany Actor 1985
February 11 Rex Lease US Actor 1966
16 Edgar Bergen US Actor, Comedian, Ventriloquist 1978
28 Vincente Minnelli US Director 1986
March 3 Adrian US Costume Designer 1959
4 Dorothy Mackaill US Actress 1990
16 Dorothy Seastrom US Actress 1930
20 Edgar Buchanan US Actor 1979
April 9 Ward Bond US Actor 1960
12 Luis Moglia Barth Argentina Director, Screenwriter 1984
15 John Williams UK Actor 1983
18 Leonid Kinskey Russia Actor 1998
26 Dorothy Sebastian US Actress 1957
May 2 Bing Crosby US Singer, Actor 1977
8 Fernandel France Actor, Singer 1971
14 Billie Dove US Actress 1997
15 Anny Ondra Poland Actress 1987
25 Binnie Barnes UK Actress 1998
29 Bob Hope UK Comedian, Actor, Singer, Dancer 2003
June 16 Ona Munson US Actress 1955
18 Jeanette MacDonald US Singer, Actress 1965
25 Anne Revere US Actress, SAG Board Member 1990
July 2 LeRoy Mason US Actor 1947
September 13 Claudette Colbert US Actress 1996
17 Dolores Costello US Actress 1979
October 20 John Davis Lodge US Actor, Politician 1985
22 Curly Howard US Actor, Comedian 1952
November 7 Dean Jagger US Actor 1991
12 Jack Oakie US Actor 1978
19 Nancy Carroll US Actress 1965
December 10 Una Merkel US Actress 1986
12 Yasujirō Ozu Japan Director, Screenwriter 1963
13 Norman Foster US Actor, Director, Screenwriter 1976
16 Hardie Albright US Actor 1975
21 Maria Balcerkiewiczówna Poland Actress 1975
26 Elisha Cook, Jr. US Actor 1995

Deaths

  • c. February 15 – Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress, dies at 69

Debut

G. M. Anderson


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