Film year 1917

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Film year 1917
Buster Keaton made his screen debut in Roscoe Arbuckle's film The Butcher Boy .

Events

Easy Street Film Title

The for January 22 planned premiere of Charlie Chaplin silent comedy Easy Street ( Easy Street ) has to be postponed due to several mishaps on the set by two weeks. The "comical parody of the Victorian get-well melodramas" is considered one of the artist's early masterpieces.
February: During a studio visit, Roscoe Arbuckle spontaneously invites the initially skeptical vaudeville comedian Buster Keaton to appear in one of his films. The Butcher Boy is considered Keaton's screen debut.
June 17 : The tragicomedy The Immigrant ( The Immigrant ) with Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance in the lead roles has its premiere. Excerpts from the film are used in the McCarthy era as "evidence" of Chaplin's alleged anti-Americanism.
September 12 : Foundation of Arnold & Richter Cine Technik (ARRI)
November 9 : Quirino Cristiani's El Apóstol , the first full- length animated film , opens in Argentinian cinemas.

December 9 : The slapstick short film Move On, starring Harold Lloyd , premieres in the United States.

Technicolor is used in two colors for the first time in the film The Gulf Between .
The film distribution and production company First National is founded.
With the first of a total of four parts of Let there be light! (Director: Richard Oswald ) the first moral and educational film comes to the cinemas.

Birthdays

Ernest Borgnine (born January 24th)

January to March

January

0January 5: Jane Wyman , American actress († 2007)
January 10: Hilde Krahl , Austrian actress († 1999)
January 15: Göran Strindberg , Swedish cameraman († 1991)
January 24th: Ernest Borgnine , American actor († 2012)
January 25: Georg Tressler , Austrian director († 2007)

February

0February 5: Yamada Isuzu , Japanese actress († 2012)
0February 6: Zsa Zsa Gabor , Hungarian actress († 2016)
February 11: Giuseppe De Santis , Italian director († 1997)
February 11: Sidney Sheldon , American writer and screenwriter († 2007)
February 13: Alain Poiré , French producer († 2000)
February 21: Lucille Bremer , American actress († 1996)
February 22nd: AD Flowers , American film technician and specialist in special effects († 2001)
February 25: Brenda Joyce , American actress († 2009)

March

March 11th: Earl Bellamy , American director († 2003)
March 12: Millard Kaufman , American screenwriter († 2009)
March 12: Googie Withers , American actress († 2011)
March 22: Virginia Gray , American actress († 2004)
March 22nd: Paul Rogers , British actor († 2013)

April to June

Celeste Holm (born April 29)

April

0April 1: Melville Shavelson , American director and screenwriter († 2007)
0April 7: RG Armstrong , American actor († 2012)
0April 9: Brad Dexter , American actor († 2002)
April 15: Hans Conried , American voice actor as well as film, television and stage actor († 1982)
April 16: Barry Nelson , American actor († 2007)
April 17th: Massimo Dallamano , Italian director († 1976)
April 29: Maya Deren , American avant-garde director and film theorist († 1961)
April 29th: Celeste Holm , American actress († 2012)
April 30th: Harry Brown , American screenwriter († 1986)

May

0May 1: Danielle Darrieux , French actress († 2017)
May 16: George Gaynes , American actor († 2016)
May 16: Ulrich Matschoss , German actor († 2013)
May 18: James Donald , British actor († 1993)
May 21: Raymond Burr , American actor († 1993)
May 31: Jean Rouch , French director († 2004)

June

0June 7: Dean Martin , American actor and singer († 1995)
June 18: Richard Boone , American actor († 1981)
June 30th: Susan Hayward , American actress († 1975)

July to September

July

0July 4th: Ugo Fasano , Italian documentary filmmaker († 2002)
July 14: Arthur Laurents , American screenwriter († 2011)
July 17: Phyllis Diller , American actress († 2012)
July 20: Paul Hubschmid , Swiss actor († 2002)
July 22nd: Fernando Garcia , Portuguese director and film critic
July 27: Bourvil , French actor († 1970)

August

0August 6: Robert Mitchum , American actor († 1997)
0August 8: Earl Cameron , British actor († 2020)
August 16: François Simon , Swiss actor († 1982)
August 23: Tex Williams , American actor and country singer († 1985)
August 25: Mel Ferrer , American actor († 2008)
August 25: Lisbeth Movin , Danish actress and director († 2011)
August 28: Aroldo Tieri , Italian actor († 2006)

September

0September 2: Armando Trovajoli , Italian composer († 2013)
September 11: Herbert Lom , Czech-British actor († 2012)
September 20: Fernando Rey , Spanish actor († 1994)
September 20: Clarice Taylor , American actress († 2011)

October to December

October

0October 7th: June Allyson , American actress († 2006)
October 15: Zoltán Fábri , Hungarian director († 1994)
October 17: Marsha Hunt , American actress
October 20: Jean-Pierre Melville , French director († 1973)
October 22: Joan Fontaine , American actress († 2013)

November

0November 4: Leonardo Cimino , American actor († 2012)
November 11th: Ilse Steppat , German actress († 1969)
November 29: Roberto Camardiel , Spanish actor († 1986)
November 29th: Pierre Gaspard-Huit , French director and screenwriter († 2017)

December

0December 1: John Merivale , Canadian actor († 1990)
0December 4th: Movita Castenada , American actress († 2015)
0December 5: Wenche Foss , Norwegian actress and singer († 2011)
December 22nd: Freddie Francis , British cameraman and director († 2007)
December 23: Valentina Serova , Soviet actress († 1975)

deceased

June 22nd: Yevgeny Bauer , Russian director (* 1865)
July 2: Herbert Beerbohm Tree , English actor and theater director (* 1853)
December 20: Eric Campbell , Scottish actor (* 1880)

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