Events

• November 19 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).

Births

• January 3 - Betty Furness, actress, consumer activist (d. 1994)
• January 3 - Maxene Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters (d. 1995)
• January 4 - Lionel Newman , composer (d. 1989)
• February 3 - Mary Carlisle , actress
• February 14 - Masaki Kobayashi, director (d. 1996)
• February 26 - Jackie Gleason, actor (d. 1987)
• February 29 - Dinah Shore, singer, actress, television presenter (d. 1994)
• March 17 - Mercedes McCambridge, actress (d. 2004)
• March 26 - Sterling Hayden, actor (d. 1986)
• April 5 - Gregory Peck, actor (d 2003)
• May 1 -Glenn Ford, actor
• May 16 - Adriana Caselotti , singer, voice actress (d. 1997)
• June 12 - Irwin Allen, director, producer (d. 1991)
• June 14 - Dorothy McGuire, actress (d. 2001)
• June 23 - Irene Worth , actress (d. 2002)
• July 27 - Keenan Wynn, actor (d. 1986)
• July 1 - Olivia de Havilland, actress
• August 25 - Van Johnson, actor
• August 27 - Martha Raye, actress (d. 1994)
• September 13 - Dick Haymes, actor (d. 1980)
• September 15 - Margaret Lockwood, actress (d. 1990)
• September 18 - Rossano Brazzi , actor (d. 1994)
• December 9 - Kirk Douglas, actor
• December 18 - Betty Grable, actress (d. 1973)
• December 28 - Peter Finch, actor (d. 1977)

Deaths

Top grossing films

• Intolerance, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Constance Talmadge

Other movies released

• The Battle of the Somme
• Energetic Eva - starring Eva Tanguay