1910 in film

The year 1910 in film involved some significant events.

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Events

March 10 – Release of In Old California, the first film made in Hollywood, California, directed by D. W. Griffith.
March 12 – American actress Florence Lawrence becomes "the first true movie star" after movie mogul Carl Laemmle of Independent Moving Pictures names her in advertisements announcing that he has signed the leading lady who has hitherto only been billed as "The Biograph Girl" by Biograph Studios. Until now, studios had a policy of not releasing the names of their players, and prohibiting distributors from revealing the information. Lawrence's first I.M.P. release is The Broken Oath.
March 18 – The first cinematic version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is released in the United States by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
May 6 – Newsreel footage of the funeral of Edward VII in London is shot in Kinemacolor, making it the first color newsreel.
July – The Johnson-Jeffries Fight footage causes race riots and is banned in the South of the US.
August 2 – A Danish melodrama, The White Slave Trade , marks the first time film is used to study prostitution.
August – Kalem Studios director Sidney Olcott becomes the first American to make a motion picture outside of the United States, The Lad from Old Ireland.
Pathé News is formed in London, producing newsreels and documentaries in the UK until 1970.
Marcus Loew partners with Adolph Zukor, Joseph Schenck and Nicholas Schenck renaming his theatre chain Loew's Consolidated Enterprises.

Notable films

Films produced in the [List of Americans|American films of 1910|United States] unless stated otherwise

Births

January 3 – John Sturges, American film director
January 12
*Patsy Kelly, American actress
*Luise Rainer, German-born film actress
January 28 – John Banner, Austrian-American actor
February 2 – David Sharpe, American actor and stunt performer
February 8
*Steffi Duna, Hungarian-born film actress
*Marc Lawrence, American character actor
February 10 – Joyce Grenfell, English diseuse, singer, actress and writer
February 17 – Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor
February 21 – Paul Bryar, American actor
February 27
*Joan Bennett, American actress
*Wolfgang Preiss, German actor
March 1 – David Niven, English actor, soldier, raconteur, memoirist and novelist
March 5 – Sheila Terry, American film actress
March 8 – Claire Trevor, American actress
March 17
*Frank de Kova, American character actor
*Sari Maritza, British film actress
*Patrick McVey, American actor
March 22 – Herbert Rudley, American character actor
March 23 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese filmmaker
March 24 – Richard Conte, American actor
April 23 – Simone Simon, French film actress
May 4 – James Ellison, American film actor
May 11 – Johnnie Davis, American actor, singer and trumpeter
May 14 – Richard Rober, American actor
May 15 – Constance Cummings, American-British actress
May 23 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician
June 3 – Paulette Goddard, American actress and socialite
June 7 – Arthur Gardner, American actor and film producer
June 9 – Robert Cummings, American actor
June 13 – Mary Wickes, American character actress
June 16 – Ilona Massey, Hungarian-American actress
June 24 – Martha Sleeper, American actress
July 4 – Gloria Stuart, American actress, visual artist and activist
July 11 – Sally Blane, American actress
July 15 – Ken Lynch, American actor
July 27 – Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress
July 28 – Bill Goodwin, American radio announcer and actor
August 4 – Anita Page, American actress
August 6 – Charles Crichton, English film director and editor
August 8 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress
August 12 – Jane Wyatt, American actress
August 16 – Mae Clarke, American actress
August 18 – Emile Meyer, American actor
August 22 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress
August 30 – Donald Bisset, English actor
September 9 – Kitty Carlisle, American actress, opera singer, television personality and spokesperson
September 19 – Margaret Lindsay, American film actress
September 29 – Virginia Bruce, American actress and singer
October 8 – Paulette Dubost, French actress
October 23 – Hayden Rorke, American actor
October 27 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor
November 26 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor
December 4 – Alex North, American composer
December 7
*Rod Cameron, Canadian actor
*Louis Prima, American trumpeter, singer, entertainer, and bandleader
December 13 – Lillian Roth, American singer and actress
December 26 – Marguerite Churchill, American actress
December 31 – Roy Rowland, American film director

Debuts

Leah Baird – Jean and the Waif
Carlyle Blackwell – Uncle Tom's Cabin (short)
Eleanor Caines – The New Boss of Bar X Ranch
Grace Cunard – The Duke's Plan
Margarita Fischer – There, Little Girl, Don't Cry
Helen Gardner – How She Won Him
Hoot Gibson – Pride of the Range
Alice Joyce – The Deacon's Daughter
J. Warren Kerrigan – A Voice from the Fireplace
Mae Marsh – Ramona (short)
Asta Nielsen – The Woman Always Pays (short)
Mabel Normand – Indiscretions of Betty
Wallace Reid – The Phoenix
Marin Sais – Twelfth Night
Norma Talmadge – The Household Pest
Pearl White – The Missing Bridegroom

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