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Film year 1911
The Babelsberg film studio is founded.

Events

German Empire / Denmark

Henny Porten 1910 in Schwank Weed does not go away with Alfred Stein

January 28 : The silent film drama Das Liebesglück der Blind by Curt A. Stark and Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers, based on the script by Rosa Porten, has its world premiere . It is considered the first German film with a self-contained plot at all. For the leading actress Henny Porten , who is not mentioned by name , it means the rise of the first German cinema star and the beginning of a career spanning around four and a half decades. Her next film Tragedy of a Strike by Adolf Gärtner will premiere on October 28th. Here the child actress Lotte Müller plays at her side for the first time .

Asta Nielsen on the set of The Black Dream

The Danish director Urban Gad has made numerous feature films in Germany and Denmark, including Hot Blood , Moth , The Black Dream , In the Big Moment , The Foreign Bird and The Traitor . Asta Nielsen plays the leading female role in all of these films .
The Danish director August Blom is shooting the feature film Ballet Dancer with Asta Nielsen and Valdemar Psilander , which premieres on November 16 .

The Babelsberg film studio is founded.

Austria

October 21 : The oldest surviving Austrian feature film appears in the cinemas: The miller and his child from the Austro-Hungarian Cinema Industry GmbH with Max Bing in the leading role.
November 1st : The Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Kinoindustrie Ges.mbH is renamed Wiener Kunstfilm GmbH , which in the following years becomes the leading Austrian silent film producer.
The story of the newsreel in Austria begins when Wiener Kunstfilm first regularly publishes weekly new reports from Vienna and other parts of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. One enters into competition here with the dominant French film companies, which have been active in Austria for years as sales branches but also as newsreel producers. In the German Reich, too, newsreels are produced for the first time .
The police are clearing the studio of Johann Schwarzer's Saturn film and thus ending his five-year erotic film productions, which were distributed worldwide and are considered to be the first ordered (i.e. not by traveling cinema owners or private) and the oldest surviving film productions in Austria.

United States of America

August 28 : The silent film Swords and Hearts of DW Griffith with Wilfred Lucas and Claire McDowell in the lead roles will be published.

David Horsley opens the first film studio in Hollywood , the Nestor Motion Picture Company .

Born

January to March

Jean-Pierre Aumont (born January 5)

Tennessee Williams (born March 26)

January

0January 1: Basil Dearden , British director († 1971)
0January 5: Jean-Pierre Aumont , French actor and screenwriter († 2001)
0January 7th: Butterfly McQueen , American actress († 1995)
January 14: Heinz Engelmann , German actor († 1996)
January 14: Hans-Martin Majewski , German composer († 1997)
January 18: Danny Kaye , American actor († 1987)
January 25: Kurt Maetzig , German director († 2012)
January 30th: Hugh Marlowe , American actor († 1982)

February

0February 6: Ronald Reagan , American actor († 2004)
February 16: Agnes Kraus , German actress († 1995)
February 19: Merle Oberon , American actress († 1979)
February 20: Peter Paul , German actor († 1985)
February 28: Otakar Vávra , Czech screenwriter and director († 2011)

March

0March 3: Jean Harlow , American actress († 1937)
0March 9: Rate Furlan , Italian director and actor († 1989)
March 24: Joseph Barbera , American producer († 2008)
March 26: Tennessee Williams , American writer and screenwriter († 1983)
March 29: Brigitte Horney , German actress († 1988)

April to June

Vincent Price (born May 27)

Gail Patrick (born June 20)

April

April 17: George Seaton , American director and screenwriter († 1979)
April 23: Ronald Neame , British director and cameraman († 2010)
April 24th: Ethel Reschke , German actress († 1992)

May

0May 4: Nicole Vedrès , French director and film theorist († 1965)
0May 7: Ishirō Honda , Japanese director († 1993)
May 11: Phil Silvers , American actor († 1985)
May 17: Maureen O'Sullivan , Irish-American actress († 1998)
May 24: Lotte Rausch , German actress († 1995)
May 26: Ben Alexander , American actor († 1969)
May 27: Vincent Price , American actor († 1993)
May 28: Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian screenwriter († 1986)

June

0June 4th: Gordon Dines , British cameraman († 1982)
0June 7th: Gustaf Hedberg , Swedish actor († 1957)
0June 7: Franz Reizenstein , German composer and pianist († 1968)
June 12: Hannsgeorg Laubenthal , German singer and actor († 1971)
June 14: Margarete Fries , Austrian actress († 2012)
June 20: Gail Patrick , American actress († 1980)
June 29: Bernard Herrmann , American composer († 1975)
June 29: Katherine DeMille , American actress († 1995)

July to September

Lupita Tovar (born July 27th)

Lucille Ball (* August 6th)

July

0July 4th: Malte Jaeger , German actor († 1991)
0July 4th: Mitch Miller , American music producer († 2010)
0July 7: Ruth Ford , American actress († 2009)
0July 7th: Gretchen Franklin , British actress († 2005)
0July 7: Joan Perry , American actress († 1996)
July 14: Terry-Thomas , British actor († 1990)
July 15: Robert H. Harris , American actor († 1981)
July 16: Ginger Rogers , American actress († 1995)
July 16: Irene Prador , Austrian singer and actress († 1996)
July 18: Hume Cronyn , Canadian actor and screenwriter († 2003)
July 19: Cissy van Bennekom , Dutch actress († 2005)
July 28: Ann Doran , American actress († 2000)

August

0August 4th: Bernardo Segall , American composer († 1993)
0August 5: Robert Taylor , American actor († 1969)
0August 6: Lucille Ball , American actress († 1989)
0August 7: Nicholas Ray , American director († 1979)
0August 8: Herwig Walter , German actor († 1986)
August 12: Cantinflas , Mexican actor († 1993)
August 16: Barta Barri , Hungarian-Spanish actor († 2003)
August 27: Harold Norman , American actor († 2011)

September

0September 1: Hugo Lindinger , Austrian actor († 1988)
0September 2: Erwin Hillier , German-British cameraman († 2005)
0September 7th: Fred Moore , American animator († 1952)
0September 8: Byron Morrow , American actor († 2006)
September 15: Emil Botta , Romanian actor († 1977)
September 15: Margaret Lockwood , British actress († 1990)
September 15: Joseph Pevney , American director († 2008)
September 18: Raúl Cancio , Spanish actor († 1961)
September 21: Billy Frick , Swiss actor and producer († 1977)

October to December

Robert Trösch (born November 25)

October

0October 1: Irwin Kostal , American arranger and composer († 1994)
0October 2: Jack Finney , American writer († 1995)
0October 2: Hans Wolff , German screenwriter, actor and director († 1979)
0October 3: Michael Hordern , British actor († 1995)
0October 3: Erni Kniepert , Austrian costume designer († 1990)
0October 4: Hans Cossy , German actor and voice actor († 1972)
0October 7: Friedrich Hartau , German actor and director († 1981)
October 13: Ashok Kumar , Indian actor and director († 2001)
October 19: Ben Barzman , American screenwriter († 1989)
October 19: Wilkie Cooper , British cameraman († 2001)
October 19: Roman Mann , Polish film architect († 1960)
October 24: Arkadi Raikin , Soviet-Russian actor and director († 1987)
October 27: Leif Erickson , American actor († 1986)
October 30: Ruth Hussey , American actress († 2005)

November

0November 1: Victoria Horne , American actress († 2003)
0November 1: Henri Troyat , French writer († 2007)
0November 2: Odysseas Elytis , Greek poet and Nobel Prize for Literature († 1996)
0November 2: Hans Heinrich , German director and film editor († 2003)
0November 3: Vladimir Ussachevski , Russian-American composer († 1990)
0November 4: Jack Rose , American screenwriter († 1995)
0November 5: Marie Osborne , American actress († 2010)
0November 5: Roy Rogers , American western actor and country singer († 1998)
0November 6th: Stephen Bosustow , Canadian cartoon producer († 1981)
November 10: Harry Andrews , British actor († 1989)
November 15: Kay Walsh , British actress († 2005)
November 16: Maria von Tasnady , Hungarian actress († 2001)
November 17: Heli Finkenzeller , German actress († 1991)
November 17: Charles Walters , American director († 1982)
November 23: Selma Vaz Dias , Dutch-British actress († 1977)
November 24: Kirby Grant , American actor († 1985)
November 25: Robert Trösch , Swiss-German actor and director († 1986)
November 30th: Jorge Negrete , Mexican singer and actor († 1953)
November 30th: Hans Nielsen , German actor and voice actor († 1965)

December

0December 3: Vertunnio De Angelis , Italian director
0December 3: Nino Rota , Italian composer († 1979)
0December 8: Lee J. Cobb , American actor († 1976)
0December 9: Broderick Crawford , American actor († 1986)
December 18: Jules Dassin , American director († 2008)
December 25: Noel Langley , American screenwriter, director and producer († 1980)

Exact date of birth unknown

Piero Ghione , Italian producer († 1982)

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