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Years in film:	1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
Years in television:	1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
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Years:	1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Films released in 1915 4 Short film series 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) was formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.
• 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.

[edit] Top grossing films

1. The Birth of a Nation

[edit] Films released in 1915

• The Awakening
• La Banda della cifre
• 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
• Burlesque on Carmen
• Carmen, starring Theda Bara
• The Cheat
• David Harum
• Der Golem, starring Paul Wegener
• The Eternal City
• Fatty's Tintype Tangle, starring and directed by 'Fatty' Arbuckle
• La Folie du Docteur Tube
• A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara
• His New Job
• Honeymoon for Three
• Inspiration (1915 film)
• The Italian
• The Morals of Marcus, starring Marie Doro
• Regeneration
• The Tramp
• Les Vampires, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora and Edouard Mathé

[edit] Short film series

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

[edit] Births

• January 9 - Anita Louise, actress (d. 1970)
• January 9 - Fernando Lamas, actor (d. 1982)
• January 11 - Veda Ann Borg, actress (d. 1973)
• January 29 - Victor Mature, actor (d. 1999)
• January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress (d. 1934)
• February 7 - Eddie Bracken, actor (d. 2002)
• February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (d. 1987)
• February 21 - Ann Sheridan, actress (d. 1967)
• February 23 - Jon Hall, actor (d. 1979)
• February 28 - Zero Mostel, actor (d. 1977)
• March 2 - Lona Andre, actress (d. 1992)
• March 17 - Henry Bumstead, art director (d. 2006)
• April 21 - Anthony Quinn, actor (d. 2001)
• May 5 - Alice Faye, actress (d. 1998)
• May 6 - Orson Welles, actor, director (d. 1985)
• June 12 - Priscilla Lane, singer, actress (d. 1995)
• July 7 - Yul Brynner, actor (d. 1985)
• August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (d. 1982)
• September 5 - Jack Buetel, actor (d. 1989)
• September 10 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (d. 1985)
• October 13 - Cornel Wilde, actor (d. 1989)
• December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor
• December 12 - Frank Sinatra, singer, actor (d. 1998)
• December 13 - Curd Jürgens, actor (d. 1982)

[edit] Deaths

• April 26 – John Bunny, silent film comediande:Filmjahr 1915

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