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| Month | Date | Name | Country | Profession | Died | |
| January | 3 | Anna May Wong | US | Actress | 1961 | |
| 12 | Tex Ritter | US | Actor, singer | 1974 | ||
| 13 | Kay Francis | US | Actress | 1968 | ||
| 15 | Sterling Holloway | US | Actor | 1992 | ||
| 17 | Grant Withers | US | Actor | 1959 | ||
| 18 | Chick Chandler | US | Actor | 1988 | ||
| 26 | Charles Lane | US | Actor | 2007 | ||
| February | 21 | Henry Mollison | UK | Actor | 1985 | |
| 27 | Franchot Tone | US | Actor, producer, director | 1968 | ||
| March | 10 | Richard Haydn | UK | Actor | 1985 | |
| 17 | Lillian Yarbo | US | Actress | 1996 [4] [5] | ||
| 18 | Robert Donat | UK | Actor | 1958 | ||
| 23 | Joan Crawford | US | Actress | 1977 | ||
| April | 8 | Ilka Chase | US | Actress | 1978 | |
| 17 | Arthur Lake | US | Actor | 1987 | ||
| May | 1 | Leila Hyams | US | Actress, Model | 1977 | |
| 15 | Joseph Cotten | US | Actor | 1994 | ||
| 16 | Henry Fonda | US | Actor | 1982 | ||
| June | 19 | Mildred Natwick | US | Actress | 1994 | |
| July | 17 | William Gargan | US | Actor | 1979 | |
| 29 | Clara Bow | US | Actress | 1965 | ||
| August | 2 | Myrna Loy | US | Actress | 1993 | |
| 2 | Ruth Nelson | US | Actress | 1992 [6] | ||
| September | 5 | Meta Luts | Estonia | Actress | 1958 | |
| 18 | Greta Garbo | Sweden | Actress | 1990 | ||
| 21 | Marguerite Roberts | US | Screenwriter | 1989 | ||
| 22 | Muriel Box | UK | Director, screenwriter | 1991 | ||
| 30 | Michael Powell | UK | Filmmaker | 1990 | ||
| October | 7 | Andy Devine | US | Actor | 1977 | |
| 10 | Aksella Luts | Estonia | Actress, screenwriter, dancer, Choreographer, Editor | 2007 | ||
| November | 5 | Joel McCrea | US | Actor | 1990 | |
| 17 | Mischa Auer | Russia | Actor | 1967 | ||
| 27 | Astrid Allwyn | US | Actress | 1978 | ||
| December | 5 | Otto Preminger | Austria-Hungary | Director, producer, actor | 1986 | |
| 11 | Gilbert Roland | Mexico | Actor | 1994 | ||
| 24 | Howard Hughes | US | Director, producer, Editor | 1976 | ||
This is an overview of 1923 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The year 1908 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1907 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1906 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1904 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1903 in film involved many significant events in cinema.
The year 1901 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1900 in film involved some significant events.
Louis Feuillade was a French filmmaker of the silent era. Between 1906 and 1924, he directed over 630 films. He is primarily known for the crime serials Fantômas, Les Vampires and Judex made between 1913 and 1916.
Edwin Stanton Porter was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. Of over 250 films created by Porter, his most important include What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901), Jack and the Beanstalk (1902), Life of an American Fireman (1903), The Great Train Robbery (1903), The European Rest Cure (1904), The Kleptomaniac (1905), Life of a Cowboy (1906), Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908), and The Prisoner of Zenda (1913).
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. She experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sync-sound system, and with color-tinting, interracial casting, and special effects.
Henri-Léon-Gustave-Charles Bernstein was a French playwright associated with Boulevard theatre.
Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants, released in the United States as Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants and in the United Kingdom as Gulliver's Travels—In the land of the Lilliputians and the Giants, is a 1902 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès, based on Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels.
Wallace McCutcheon Sr. was a pioneer cinematographer and director in the early American motion picture industry, working with the American Mutoscope & Biograph, Edison and American Star Film companies. McCutcheon's wealth of credits are often mixed up with the small handful of films directed by his son, Wallace McCutcheon Jr. (1884–1928).
The Treasures from American Film Archives series of DVDs is produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF), a nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress in 1997. The NFPF publishes these DVD sets, with accompanying booklets and extensive commentary, to promote public access to the films preserved by the American archival community.
The Phonoscène was an antecedent of music video and was regarded by Michel Chion, Noël Burch and Richard Abel as a forerunner of sound film. The first Phonoscènes were presented by Léon Gaumont in 1902 in France. The first official presentation in the United Kingdom took place at Buckingham Palace in 1907. The last phonoscène was presented in 1917.
A Fantastical Meal is a 1900 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès.
Éruption volcanique à la Martinique, released in the United States as The Eruption of Mount Pelee and in Britain as The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelée and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique, is a 1902 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès. The film is a short reconstruction, using miniature models, of a recent historical event: the eruption on 8 May 1902 of Mount Pelée, which destroyed the town of Saint-Pierre, Martinique.
Rip's Dream is a 1905 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès.
The Living Playing Cards is a 1905 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès.
Billye [sic] Yarbo and Nat Cole both birthday on the 17th.