Template:Year nav topic2 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1914 in film involved some significant events.
Events[]
- The 3,300-seat Strand Theater opens in New York City.
- February 2 - Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living is released.
- May 4 - Release of Charlie Chaplin's Caught In The Rain, the first film entirely written and directed by him.
- May 8 - Paramount Pictures is formed.
- June 8 - Opening of Ebbets Field Theater, the first drive-in cinema.
- Filteo Alberini introduces a new 70 mm format, Panoramico, with the film Il sacco di Roma
Top grossing films (U.S.)[]
Rank | Title | Gross |
---|---|---|
1. | The Million Dollar Mystery | $1,500,000 |
2. | The Spoilers | |
3. | The Squaw Man | |
4. | Tillie's Punctured Romance |
Films released in 1914[]
- A Little Madonna
- Assunta Spina
- The Avenging Conscience
- The Aztec Treasure
- A Bathing Beauty
- Cabiria
- Child of the Big City
- The Exploits of Elaine
- Gertie the Dinosaur, animated
- The Million Dollar Mystery, (serial), starring Florence La Badie
- The Hazards of Helen, (serial) starring Helen Holmes
- The Magic Cloak of Oz, starring Mildred Harris
- His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, starring Mildred Harris
- In the Land of the Head Hunters
- Judith of Bethulia
- Kid Auto Races at Venice
- The Last Egyptian
- Mabel at the Wheel
- Mabel's Strange Predicament
- Making a Living
- My Official Wife, starring [[Clara Kimball Young]
- [Neptune’s Daughter]], starring Annette Kellerman
- O Mimi San, starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Mildred Harris
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz
- The Perils of Pauline, (serial) starring Pearl White
- Salomy Jane
- Il sacco di Roma
- The Squaw Man, starring Dustin Farnum
- The Stain, starring Theda Bara
- A Study in Scarlet directed by George Pearson
- Tillie's Punctured Romance, directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
- The Wishing Ring
- The Wrath of Gods, starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Frank Borzage
Short film series[]
- Broncho Billy Anderson (1910-1916)
- Harold Lloyd (1913-1929)
- Charlie Chaplin (1914-1923)
Births[]
Child Actors[]
- October 26 - Jackie Coogan, actor (d. 1984)
- December 10 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (d. 1996)
Deaths[]
- Charles J. Hite, President and CEO of Thanhouser Film Corporation
Film Debuts[]
- Ethel Barrymore
- Charlie Chaplin
- Marguerite Clark
- Beatriz Michelena
- Milton Berle
- Theda Bara
- Hazel Dawn
- Gaby Deslys
- Thomas Meighan
- Milton Sills