Events

• February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists
• Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader , becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture.

Top grossing films

Movies released

Movies released in 1919 include:

• Back Stage , a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Blind Husbands , directed by Erich von Stroheim.
• Broken Blossoms starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess; directed by D.W. Griffith.
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt.
• Daddy-Long-Legs , starring Mary Pickford.
• A Day's Pleasure , a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Homesteader
• Madame DuBarry , starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings.
• Male and Female , starring Gloria Swanson; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
• The Garage , a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Shackleton's Expedition to the Antarctic (documentary)
• Sunnyside, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Sentimental Bloke (a)
• True Heart Susie , starring Lillian Gish.

Births

• January 1 - Carole Landis, actress (d. 1948)
• January 13 - Robert Stack, actor (d. 2003)
• January 21 - Jinx Falkenburg , model, actress (d. 2003)
• January 23 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian, actor (d. 1962)
• February 5 - Red Buttons, actor
• February 5 - Tim Holt, actor (d. 1973)
• February 11 - Eva Gabor, actress (d. 1995)
• February 18 - Jack Palance, actor
• March 2 - Jennifer Jones, actress
• March 29 - Eileen Heckart, actress (d. 2001)
• April 13 - Howard Keel, actor
• April 29 - Celeste Holm, actress
• May 8 - Lex Barker, actor (d. 1973)
• May 23 - Betty Garrett, actress
• June 12 - Uta Hagen, actress (d. 2004)
• June 14 - Sam Wanamaker, director, actor (d. 1993)
• June 19 - Pauline Kael, film critic (d. 2001)
• June 19 - Louis Jourdan, actor
• June 29 - Slim Pickens, actor (d. 1983)
• July 7 - Jon Pertwee, actor (d. 1996)
• July 26 - Virginia Gilmore , actress (d. 1986)
• August 2 - Nehemiah Persoff , actor
• August 8 - Dino De Laurentis , producer
• September 18 - Diana Lewis , actress (d. 1997)
• September 26 - Barbara Britton , actress (d. 1980)
• October 5 - Donald Pleasence, actor (d. 1995)
• November 13 - Mary Beth Hughes , actress (d. 1995)
• November 14 - Veronica Lake, actress (d. 1973)
• November 15 - Nova Pilbeam , actress
• November 20 - Evelyn Keyes, actress

Deaths