1917 in film

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Years in film

1870s
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
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1930s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as "Classical Hollywood".

Events

February - Buster Keaton first meets Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in New York and is hired as a co-star and gag man.
April 23 - Release in the United States of the short The Butcher Boy, the first of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's series of films with the Comique Film Corporation, and Buster Keaton's film debut.
April 25 - Thomas Lincoln Tally, in a meeting in New York, co-founds the First National Exhibitors Circuit.^[1]^[2]
September 13 - Release in the United States of The Gulf Between, the first film made in Technicolor System 1, a two-color process.
November 9 - World's first feature-length animated film is made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani (El Apóstol)
December 18 - Foundation of Universum Film AG (UƒA), as a propaganda film company, in Berlin.
Movette, another revision of the 17.5 mm film format, is made available.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	Cleopatra
2.	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
3.	The Poor Little Rich Girl

Notable films released in 1917

U.S.A. unless stated

The Adventurer, a Charlie Chaplin short.
All Aboard, a Harold Lloyd short
The Bad Boy, starring Robert Harron, Mildred Harris, Colleen Moore
Bestia (aka The Polish Dancer), starring Pola Negri - (Poland)
Big Timber
Bucking Broadway, directed by John Ford, starring Harry Carey
The Butcher Boy, starring "Fatty" Arbuckle with Buster Keaton
Camille, starring Theda Bara

Theda Bara as Cleopatra

Cleopatra, starring Theda Bara
The Colonel (Az Ezredes), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bela Lugosi - (Hungary)
Coney Island, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
The Cure, a Charlie Chaplin short.
Dombey and Son directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Hayford Hobbs - (GB)
The Dying Swan (Umirayushchii Lebed) - (U.S.S.R.)
Easy Street, starring Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
El Apóstol (The Apostle), animated by Quirino Cristiani - (Argentina)
Fear directed by Robert Wiene and starring Conrad Veidt - (Germany)
Frank Hansen's Fortune directed by Viggo Larsen - (Germany)
The Gay Lord Quex directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Ben Webster and Irene Vanbrugh - (GB)
Golden Rule Kate, a drama western starring Louise Glaum
Great Expectations, starring Jack Pickford
The Gulf Between, All color movie.
Harrison and Barrison, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Márton Rátkai - (Hungary)
Her Right to Live, directed by Paul Scardon, starring Peggy Hyland, Antonio Moreno, Mae Costello, John S. Robertson
His Wedding Night, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
The Immigrant, starring Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance
A Kentucky Cinderella, starring Ruth Clifford
The Labour Leader, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Owen Nares, Fay Compton - (GB)
The Little American, starring Mary Pickford; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
A Little Princess, directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Mary Pickford, Norman Kerry, ZaSu Pitts
Der Magische Gürtel ("The Magic Girdle") (Germany)
A Man There Was (Terje Vigen), directed by Victor Sjöström - (Sweden)
The Man Without a Country, starring Florence La Badie
The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach, directed by Rudolf Biebrach, starring Henny Porten, Emil Jannings - (Germany)
Oh Doctor!, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
One Law for Both directed by Ivan Abramson
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray) - (Germany)
The Poor Little Rich Girl, starring Mary Pickford
Raffles the Amateur Cracksman, starring John Barrymore

Advertisement, August 1917

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, starring Mary Pickford
A Reckless Romeo, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle short.
A Romance of the Redwoods, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Mary Pickford
The Rough House, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
Satan Triumphant (Satana likuyushchiy) - (U.S.S.R.)
Souls Triumphant, starring Lillian Gish
Straight Shooting, directed by John Ford
The Sultan's Wife, starring Gloria Swanson
Teddy at the Throttle, a Keystone comedy starring Gloria Swanson
Thaïs - (Italy)
Tom Sawyer, starring Jack Pickford
The Tornado, directed by John Ford (his debut)
The Torture of Silence (Mater Dolorosa), directed by Abel Gance - (France)
U-Boote Heraus! ("U-Boat Release") (Germany)
Wild and Woolly, starring Douglas Fairbanks

Comedy film series

Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
Buster Keaton (1917–1944)

Births

January 2 - Vera Zorina, dancer, actress (died 2003)
January 5 - Jane Wyman, actress (died 2007)
January 10 - Hilde Krahl, actress (died 1999)
January 21 - Lally Bowers, English actress and singer (died 1984)
January 24 - Ernest Borgnine, actor (died 2012)
February 6 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress
February 21 - Lucille Bremer, actress (died 1996)
March 2 - Desi Arnaz, actor (died 1986)
March 12 - Googie Withers, actress (died 2011)
March 22 - Virginia Grey, actress (died 2004)
April 14 - Valerie Hobson, actress (died 1998)
April 29
- Celeste Holm, actress (died 2012)
- Maya Deren, experimental filmmaker (died 1961)
May 1 - Danielle Darrieux, actress
May 10 - Margo, actress (died 1985)
May 16 - George Gaynes, actor (died 2016)
May 21 - Raymond Burr, actor (died 1993)
May 25 - Steve Cochran, actor (died 1965)
June 7 - Dean Martin, singer, actor (died 1995)
June 30
- Lena Horne, singer, actress (died 2010)
- Susan Hayward, actress (died 1975)
July 8 - Faye Emerson, actress (died 1983)
July 17 - Phyllis Diller, comedian, actress (died 2012)
July 26 - Lorna Gray, actress
August 6 - Robert Mitchum, actor (died 1997)
August 8 - Earl Cameron, actor
August 25 - Mel Ferrer, actor (died 2008)
September 9 - Rolf Wenkhaus, actor (died 1942)
September 11 - Herbert Lom, actor (died 2012)
October 7
- Helmut Dantine, actor (died 1982)
- June Allyson, actress (died 2006)
October 16 - Alice Pearce, actress (died 1966)
October 17 - Marsha Hunt, U.S. actress
October 22 - Joan Fontaine, actress (died 2013)
November 2 - Ann Rutherford, actress (died 2012)
November 4 - Virginia Field, actress (died 1992)
December 7 - Hurd Hatfield, actor (died 1998)
December 22 - Frankie Darro, actor (died 1976)

Deaths

February 21 - Fred Mace, 38, American actor & comedian, What Happened to Jones, His Last Scent (short), A Lover's Might (short), The Love Comet (short)
March 6 - Valdemar Psilander, 32, Danish actor, Rytterstatuen, Lykken, Lydia, Klovnen, Favoriten, In Defense of a Nation, John Redmond, the Evangelist
July 2 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 64, English stage & screen actor, Beerbohm Tree, The Great English Actor; Henry VIII; Macbeth; Trilby; The Old Folks at Home
October 13 - Florence La Badie, 29, American actress, The Man Without a Country, War and the Woman, The Woman in White, When Love was Blind
October 25 - Jack Standing, 31, English actor, With Hoops of Steel, The Curse of Eve, The Innocent Sinner, The Price of Her Soul, One Touch of Sin
November 5 - Howell Hansel, 46, American actor and director
December 20 - Eric Campbell, 38, Scottish actor, The Immigrant, Behind the Screen, The Count, Easy Street, The Adventurer (short), The Cure (short)

Film debuts

Marion Davies - Runaway, Romany
Vittorio De Sica - The Clemenceau Affair
Richard Dix - One of Many
Elsie Ferguson - Barbary Sheep
John Ford - director, The Tornado (short) (as Jack Ford)
Mary Garden - Thais
Buster Keaton - actor, The Butcher Boy (short); writer, director, The Rough House (short)
Stan Laurel - Nuts in May (short) (as Stan Jefferson)
Bela Lugosi - Az ezredes (as Arisztid Olt)
ZaSu Pitts - Uneasy Money (short)
Marjorie Rambeau - The Greater Woman
Loretta Young - The Primrose Ring (uncredited)

References

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