Movies - 1924 in film

Events

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a silent film of The Wizard of Oz. MGM and L. Frank Baum failed to come to an agreement so the rights were sold to Chadwick Pictures.

Top grossing films

• The Thief of Baghdad

Movies released

• Aelita
  , a Russian science-fiction propaganda film.
• America (movie), directed by D.W. Griffith.
• Forbidden Paradise, starring Pola Negri
  ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
• Girl Shy
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  .
• Greed
  , starring Zasu Pitts and Gibson Gowland
  ; directed by Erich von Stroheim
  .
• He Who Gets Slapped
  , starring Lon Chaney
  .
• The Iron Horse, starring George O'Brien
  .
• Isn't Life Wonderful, directed by D.W. Griffith.
• The Marriage Circle, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
• Michael
  , directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
• Monsieur Beaucaire
  , starring Rudolph Valentino
  , directed by Sidney Olcott
  .
• Peter Pan, starring Betty Bronson
  .
• The Sea Hawk, starring Milton Sills
  .
• The Thief of Bagdad, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks
  .
• Three Weeks, starring Conrad Nagel
  and Aileen Pringle
  .

Short film series

• Buster Keaton
  (1917-1941)
• Our Gang
  (1922-1944
  )

Births

• January 16 - Katy Jurado
  , actress (+ 2002
  )
• January 21 - Telly Savalas
  , actor
• April 3 - Doris Day
  , actress, singer
• April 3 - Marlon Brando
  , actor (+ 2004
  )
• April 20 - Nina Foch
  , actress
• July 4 - Eva Marie Saint
  , actress
• July 21 - Don Knotts
  , actor
• September 16 - Lauren Bacall
  , actress
• September 27 - Wilford Brimley
  , actor
• September 28 - Marcello Mastroianni
  , actor
• September 30 - Truman Capote, author
• October 13 - Nipsey Russell
  , comedian, actor
• November 22 - Geraldine Page
  , actress
• December 25 - Rod Serling, screenwriter

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