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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Films released in 1923 4 Short film series 5 Animated short film series 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.

[edit] Top grossing films

1. The Covered Wagon

[edit] Films released in 1923

• The Covered Wagon
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney
• Our Hospitality
• The Purple Highway, starring Madge Kennedy, Monte Blue, Vincent Coleman and Pedro de Cordoba
• Safety Last!, starring Harold Lloyd. In one scene, Lloyd is seen climbing around and hanging off the side of a tall building, including a very famous scene where he hangs off a clock. Lloyd did all of his own stunts, and worked without a safety net.
• Salomé, starring Alla Nazimova; directed by Charles Bryant
• Souls for Sale, starring Richard Dix and Eleanor Boardman
• The Ten Commandments, starring Theodore Roberts; directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• Why Worry?, starring Harold Lloyd
• A Woman of Paris, starring Edna Purviance; directed by Charles Chaplin

[edit] Short film series

• Charlie Chaplin (1914-1923
• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
• Koko the Clown (1919-1963)
• The Red Head Comedies (1923-1923).

[edit] Births

• January 7 - Pinkas Braun, actor, director
• January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan, actress (d. 1992)
• January 19 - Jean Stapleton, actress
• January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky writer (d. 1981)
• February 2 - Bonita Granville, actress (d. 1988)
• February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, director
• February 21 – Lola Flores, actress (d. 1995)
• February 28 - Charles Durning, actor
• April 12 - Ann Miller, dancer, actress (d. 2004)
• May 7 - Anne Baxter, actress (d. 1985)
• July 22 - Mukesh, singer (d. 1976)
• August 3 - Jean Hagen, actress (d. 1977)
• August 10 - Rhonda Fleming, actress
• September 7 - Peter Lawford, actor (d. 1984)
• October 5 - Glynis Johns, actress
• October 16 - Linda Darnell, actress (d. 1965)
• November 9 - Dorothy Dandridge, singer, actress (d. 1965)
• November 28 - Gloria Grahame, actress (d. 1981)

[edit] Deaths

• January 18 – Wallace Reid American actor
• March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
• November 30 - Martha Mansfield, American actressde:Filmjahr 1923

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