1911 in film

The year 1911 in film involved some significant events.

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Events

*October 27: David Horsley's, Nestor Motion Picture Company opens the first motion picture studio in Hollywood.

Films released in 1911

* "The Adventures of Lieutenant Daring"
* "Aerial Anarchists"
* "Aida"
* "Alkali Ike's Auto"
* "Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen"
* "Baseball and Bloomers"
* "The Battle"
* ""
* "Brown of Harvard"
* "The Buddhist Priestess"
* "Cally's Comet"
* "The Coffin Ship"
* "The Colonel and the King"
* "Courting Across the Court"
* "The Cowboy and the Lady"
* "Defence of Sevastopol"
* "Flames and Fortune"
* "For Her Sake"
* "Friday the 13th"
* "The Godfather"
* "His Trust"
* "His Trust Fulfilled"
* "Her Crowning Glory"
* "L'Inferno"
* "The Last of the Mohicans"
* "Life As It Is"
* "Little Nemo"
* "The Higher Law"
* "The Lonedale Operator"
* "Der Müller und sein Kind"
* "The Pasha's Daughter"
* "Princess Clementina"
* "The Railroad Builder"
* "The Smuggler"
* "Sweet Memories"
* "A Tale of Two Cities"
* "That's Happiness"
* "What Shall We Do with Our Old?"
* "Won by Wireless"

Births

*January 3 - John Sturges, director (d. 1992)
*January 5 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (d. 2001)
*January 7 - Butterfly McQueen, actress (d. 1995)
*February 6 - Ronald Reagan, actor, United States President (d. 2004)
*February 14 - Florence Rice, actress (d. 1974)
*February 19 - Merle Oberon, actress (d. 1979)
*March 3 - Jean Harlow, actress (d. 1937)
*March 18 - Smiley Burnette, actor, musician (d. 1967)
*May 11 - Phil Silvers, actor (d. 1985)
*May 16 - Margaret Sullavan, actress (d. 1960)
*May 17 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (d. 1998)
*May 18 - Sigrid Gurie, actress (d. 1969)
*June 3 - Ellen Corby, actress (d. 1999)
*June 20 - Gail Patrick (d. 1980)
*June 29 - Bernard Hermann, composer (d. 1975)
*July 6 - Laverne Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters (d. 1967)
*July 14 - Terry-Thomas, actor (d. 1990)
*July 16 - Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer (d. 1995)
*July 18 - Hume Cronyn, actor (d. 2003)
*August 5 - Robert Taylor, actor (d. 1969)
*August 6 - Lucille Ball, actress (d. 1989)
*August 7 - Nicholas Ray, director(d. 1979)
*August 12 - Jane Wyatt, actress (d. 2006)
*August 12 - Cantinflas, actor (d. 1993)
*September 2 - Erwin Hillier, cinematographer (d. 2005)
*October 13 - Ashok Kumar, actor, India (d. 2001)
*October 20 - Will Rogers, Jr., actor (d. 1993)
*October 27 - Leif Erickson, actor (d. 1986)
* November 4 – Frederick W. Elvidge, actor (d. 1988)
*November 5 - Roy Rogers, singer, actor (d. 1998)
*November 10 - Harry Andrews, actor (d. 1989)
*December 8 - Lee J. Cobb, actor (d. 1976)
*December 30 - Jeanette Nolan, actress (d. 1998)

Deaths

* October 27 - Francis Boggs, film director
* November 2 - Harold Kyrle Bellew(1850-1911), actor
* December 22 - Wright Lorimer(1874-1911), stage actor, writer of "The Shepherd King" filmed in 1923.