Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
1918 in film
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Events
- Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband.
Top grossing films
- Mickey
- Tarzan of the Apes
Movies released
Movies released in 1918 include:
- Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley , starring Mary Pickford.
- The Bell Boy - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
- The Cook - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
- A Dog's Life , a Charlie Chaplin short.
- Hearts of the World , directed by D.W. Griffith.
- The House of Mirth
- Movie , starring Mabel Normand
- Out West - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
- Shoulder Arms , a Charlie Chaplin film.
- The Sinking of the Lusitania - a short animated propaganda film by Winsor McCay.
- Salome, starring Theda Bara.
- Stella Maris , starring Mary Pickford.
- Tarzan of the Apes, starring Elmo Lincoln and Enid Markey
- Triple Trouble , a Charlie Chaplin short.
Births
- January 29 - John Forsythe, actor
- February 16 - Patty Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters
- March 1 - Roger Delgado, actor (d. 1973)
- March 9 - Mickey Spillane, writer, actor
- April 17 - Anne Shirley, actress (d. 1993)
- April 17 - William Holden, actor (d. 1981)
- May 14 - June Duprez, actress (d. 1984)
- May 26 - John Dall, actor (d. 1971)
- June 30 - Susan Hayward, actress (d. 1975)
- July 6 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (d. 1977)
- July 14 - Ingmar Bergman, actor, writer, director
- July 18 - Jane Frazee , singer, actress (d. 1985)
- July 26 - Marjorie Lord , actress
- August 9 - Robert Aldrich, director (d. 1983)
- August 17 - Evelyn Ankers , actress (d. 1985)
- September 5 - Rin Tin Tin, canine actor (d. 1932)
- September 21 - Rand Brooks , actor (d. 2003)
- October 9 - Lila Kedrova, actress (d. 2000)
- October 13 - Robert Walker, actor (d. 1951)
- October 17 - Rita Hayworth, actress (d. 1987)
- October 27 - Teresa Wright, actress
- November 4 - Art Carney, actor (d. 2003)
- November 4 - Cameron Mitchell , actor (d. 1994)
- November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor
- December 20 - Audrey Totter, actress
Deaths
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