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Events

Mack Sennett
, who had previously worked as an actor and comedy director with D. W. Griffith, formed a new company with New York City entrepreneur Adam Kessel called Keystone Studios
. It would play an important role in developing slapstick comedy as the home to the Keystone Kops, English actor Charlie Chaplin
, and others.
July 26 - Edison Studios releases What Happened to Mary?
, the first ever motion picture serial.
October 31 - The Musketeers of Pig Alley
, directed by D.W. Griffith, debuts as the first gangster film.

Movies released

Movies released in 1912 include:

In Nacht und Eis
Keystone Comedy
Oliver Twist: The first American feature film to last over an hour.
Saved From the Titanic
A Tale of Two Cities
, directed by William J. Humphrey
, starring John Bunny
, Anita Stewart
, Mabel Normand
, Norma Talmadge
, and Dorothy Kelly
.
What Happened to Mary?

Births

January 8 - José Ferrer
, actor (d. 1992
)
February 19 - Saul Chaplin, film composer (d. 1997
)
February 21 - Arline Judge, actress (d. 1974
)
February 26 - Dane Clark
, actor (d. 1998
)
March 22 - Karl Malden
, actor
April 8 - Sonja Henie
, Olympic ice-skater, actress (d. 1969
)
April 18 - Wendy Barrie
, actress (d. 1978
)
May 9 - Pedro Armendáriz
, actor (d. 1963
)
May 18 - Perry Como, singer, actor (d. 2001
)
May 23 - Marius Goring
, actor (d. 1998
)
May 23 - John Payne (I), actor (d. 1989
)
May 29 - Iris Adrian
, actress (d. 1994
)
June 26 - Jay Silverheels
, actor (Tonto) (d. 1980
)
July 4 - Viviane Romance
, actress (d. 1991
)
July 5 - Ilona Massey, actress (d. 1974
)
August 2 - Ann Dvorak
, actress (d. 1979
)
August 15 - Wendy Hiller
, actress (d. 2003
)
August 23 - Gene Kelly
, actor (d. 1996
)
August 29 - Barry Sullivan, actor (d. 1974
)
September 5 - Kristina Söderbaum
, actress (d. 2001
)
September 21 - Chuck Jones, animator (d. 2002
)
September 23 - Martha Scott
, actress (d. 2003
)
September 29 - Michelangelo Antonioni, director
October 31 - Dale Evans
, actress (d. 2001
)
November 21 - Eleanor Powell, dancer, actress (d. 1982
)
November 24 - Garson Kanin
, writer (d. 1999
)
December 11 - Carlo Ponti
, producer

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