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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[]

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[]