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The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.

Events

February 8 : D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks both box office and film length records (running at a total length of over three hours).
June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.
September 11: A nitrate fire at Famous Players in New York destroys several completed but unreleased silent films which are later remade. Films lost include Mary Pickford's Esmerelda and The Foundling and John Barrymore's The Red Widow.
November 18 : Release of Inspiration, the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress (Audrey Munson) appears nude.
The Allan Dwan directed film David Harum is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood.
The Duplex Corporation creates a Split Duplex, an early widescreen film format where the film image is rotated 90 degrees and occupies half of a conventional frame.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	The Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Sam De Grasse, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, and Blanche Sweet	$10,000,000^[1]
2.	Burlesque on Carmen
3.	Carmen, starring Theda Bara
4.	The Cheat	$137,364 ^[2]
5.	David Harum
6.	Der Golem, starring Paul Wegener
7.	The Eternal City
8.	Fatty's Tintype Tangle, starring and directed by 'Fatty' Arbuckle
9.	La Folie du Docteur Tube
10.	A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara
11.	His New Job
12.	Honeymoon for Three, directed by Maurice Elvey
13.	Inspiration
14.	The Italian
15.	Martyrs of the Alamo, produced by D. W. Griffith
16.	The Morals of Marcus, starring Marie Doro
17.	Regeneration
18.	The Tramp
19.	Les Vampires, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora and Édouard Mathé

Notable films released in 1915

All following films are American, except where stated.

Assunta Spina, starring Francesca Bertini - (Italy)
The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish
Carmen, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Geraldine Farrar
Carmen, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Theda Bara
The Champion, starring Charles Chaplin and Edna Purviance
The Cheat, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa
Double Trouble, starring Douglas Fairbanks
Enoch Arden, starring Lillian Gish
Fatty's Spooning Days, starring Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and The Keystone Cops
A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara
Four Feathers
The Golden Chance, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Cleo Ridgely and Wallace Reid
The Golem (Der Golem), directed by and starring Paul Wegener - (Germany)
The Immigrant
Inspiration
The Italian
The Lamb, starring Douglas Fairbanks
Madame Butterfly, directed by Sidney Olcott, starring Mary Pickford
The Man Who Stayed at Home - (GB)
Martyrs of the Alamo
The Raven
Regeneration, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Rockliffe Fellowes and Anna Q. Nilsson
The Senator, directed by Joseph A. Golden
The Soul of Broadway
The Tramp, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
Le traquenard, starring Irène Bordoni - (France)
The Two Orphans, starring Theda Bara
Work, directed by & starring Charles Chaplin

Short film series

Broncho Billy Anderson (1910–1916)
Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)
Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)

Births

January 9
- Anita Louise, actress (died 1970)
- Fernando Lamas, actor (died 1982)
January 11 - Veda Ann Borg, actress (died 1973)
January 26 - William Hopper, actor; son of Hedda Hopper (died 1970)
January 29 - Bill Peet, Disney author and illustrator (died 2002)
January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress (died 1934)
February 7 - Eddie Bracken, actor (died 2002)
February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (died 1987)
February 21 - Ann Sheridan, actress (died 1967)
February 23 - Jon Hall, actor (died 1979)
February 28 - Zero Mostel, actor (died 1977)
March 2 - Lona Andre, actress (died 1992)
March 17 - Henry Bumstead, art director (died 2006)
March 19 - Patricia Morison, actress
April 10 - Harry Morgan, United States actor (died 2011)
April 21 - Anthony Quinn, actor (died 2001)
May 5 - Alice Faye, actress, (died 1998)
May 6 - Orson Welles, actor, director (died 1985)
May 8 - John Archer, American actor (died 1999)
May 19 - Renée Asherson, actress, (died 2014)
June 12 - Priscilla Lane, singer, actress (died 1995)
August 2 - Gary Merrill, actor (died 1990)
August 15 - Signe Hasso, (died 2002)
August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (died 1982)
September 5 - Jack Buetel, actor (died 1989)
September 10 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (died 1985)
September 14 - Douglas Kennedy, actor (died 1973)
December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor (died 2014)
December 12 - Frank Sinatra, singer, actor (died 1998)
December 13 - Curd Jürgens, actor (died 1982)
December 14 - Dan Dailey, actor (died 1978)

Deaths

January 10 - Marshall P. Wilder, 55, American diminutive stage and screen actor
April 26 – John Bunny, 51, American silent film comedian, A Strand of Blond Hair(short), Bunny's Little Brother(short), Bunny Backslides(short)
June 5 - John C. Rice, stage and film actor, The Kiss
June 16 - Elmer Booth, 32, American silent screen actor, brother of film editor Margaret Booth, The Musketeers of Pig Alley, The Narrow Road, An Unseen Enemy
October 31 - Blanche Walsh, 42, American stage actress appeared in Zukor's 3 reel feature "Resurrection" 1912

Film debuts

Mary Boland - The Edge of the Abyss
Donald Brian - The Voice in the Fog
Marie Cahill - Judy Forgot
Laura Hope Crews - The Fighting Hope
Elliott Dexter - Helene of the North
Marie Doro - The Morals of Marcus
Douglas Fairbanks - The Lamb
Geraldine Farrar - Carmen
W. C. Fields - Pool Sharks (short)
Pauline Frederick - The Eternal City
Charlotte Greenwood - Jane
Edna Purviance - A Night Out (short) (uncredited)
Valeska Suratt - The Soul of Broadway
Erich Von Stroheim - actor, assistant director, The Birth of a Nation (uncredited); costume designer, wardrobe assistant, Ghosts
Charlotte Walker - Kindling
Fannie Ward - The Marriage of Kitty

References

↑ Rucker, Walter C.; Upton, James N., eds. (2007). Encyclopedia of American race riots. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-313-33301-9. ...earning more than $10 million at the box office in 1915. By 1949, it had earned $50 million
↑ Birchard, Robert S. (2004), Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 19, ISBN 0-8131-2324-0

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