1928 in film
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[edit] Events
Although some movies released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent.
- November 18 - Disney's Steamboat Willie premieres. This animated short was the first film to include a soundtrack, completely created in post production, including sound effects, music, and dialogue.
[edit] Top grossing films
- The Singing Fool
- Street Angel
- Four Sons
- Lights of New York
- The Red Dance
- West of Zanzibar
- The Road to Ruin
- Sadie Thompson
- A Woman of Affairs
- The Mysterious Lady
- The Divine Woman
[edit] Academy Awards
- Best Actor: Emil Jannings for The Last Command and the 1927 movie The Way of All Flesh
- Best Actress: Janet Gaynor for Street Angel and the 1927 movies Seventh Heaven and Sunrise
Note: Prior to 1933, awards were not based on calendar years, which is why there is no 'Best Picture' for a 1928 film.
[edit] Films released in 1928
- Across to Singapore
- Alraune
- L'Argent
- Beggars of Life
- The Cameraman, a Buster Keaton film.
- Champagne, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
- The Circus, starring, directed and written by Charles Chaplin.
- The Crowd, directed by King Vidor.
- The Docks of New York, starring George Bancroft, Betty Compson and Olga Baclanova.
- Easy Virtue, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
- The Farmer's Wife, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
- Four Sons, directed by John Ford
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Ruth Taylor and Alice White, subtitles written by Anita Loos. -(film only mentioned in article)
- Hangman's House
- In Old Arizona 12/25/28 (First 'Outdoor/Western' full length Talkie, apparent FIRST Sound-On-FILM (Movietone; Not sep. discs) feature length Talkie. The 'eagle has Landed' technologically).
- Ladies of the Mob
- The Last Command, starring Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent and William Powell.
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh, starring Lon Chaney.
- Lights of New York, 7/28/28 (FIRST true 'talkie'; all sound for full length in feature film. Vitaphone sound, i.e. on separate discs)
- The Man Who Laughs, starring Mary Philbin and Conrad Veidt.
- The Matinee Idol, starring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker; directed by Frank Capra.
- Mother Machree, directed by John Ford
- The Mysterious Lady, starring Greta Garbo and Conrad Nagel.
- Our Dancing Daughters, starring Joan Crawford.
- The Passion of Joan of Arc, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
- The Red Dance
- Red Hair, starring Clara Bow
- Sadie Thompson, starring Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore.
- Sex in Chains, starring and directed by William Dieterle.
- Show People, starring Marion Davies.
- The Singing Fool, starring Al Jolson and Betty Bronson.
- Speedy, starring Harold Lloyd.
- Steamboat Bill Jr., a Buster Keaton film.
- Steamboat Willie, a Walt Disney Mickey Mouse short.
- Storm Over Asia
- Street Angel, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell.
- Thunder, directed by William Nigh, starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Phyllis Haver
- The Wedding March, starring Erich von Stroheim and Fay Wray.
- West of Zanzibar, starring Lon Chaney and Lionel Barrymore.
- West Point, starring William Haines and Joan Crawford.
- The Wind, starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson.
- We Faw Down, starring Laurel and Hardy.
- A Woman of Affairs, starring Greta Garbo.
[edit] Short film series
- Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
- Our Gang (1922-1944)
- Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
[edit] Animated short film series
- Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
- Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1933)
- Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
- Inkwell Imps (1927-1929)
- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
- Newslaffs (1927-1928)
- Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
[edit] Births
- January 7 - William Peter Blatty, screenwriter
- January 26 - Roger Vadim, director, screenwriter, actor
- February 11 - Conrad Janis, actor.
- February 29 - Tempest Storm, burlesque performer, actress
- March 1 - Jacques Rivette, film director
- March 24 - Vanessa Brown (+ 1999)
- April 23 - Shirley Temple, actress
- July 26 - Stanley Kubrick, director
- August 6 - Andy Warhol, artist, director
- August 11 - Arlene Dahl, actress
- August 15 - Nicolas Roeg, director
- August 16 - Ann Blyth, actress
- August 31 - James Coburn, actor
- September 17 - Roddy McDowall, actor
- September 19 - Adam West, actor
- October 1 - George Peppard, actor
- October 2 - George 'Spanky' McFarland, actor
- November 3 - Wanda Hendrix, actress (+1981)
[edit] Film Debuts
[edit] Deaths
- January 2 - Emily Stevens, stage & film actress, cousin of Minnie Maddern Fiske
- January 26 - Earle Metcalfe, silent film actor (b 1889)
- April 22 - Frank Currier, veteran stage & silent screen actor.
- June 22 - George Siegmann, silent film actor
- June 24 - Holbrook Blinn, American stage & silent film actor.
- August 10 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
- October 8 - Larry Semon, Silent film comedian
- December 14 - Theodore Roberts, Silent actor
- December 25 - Fred Thomson, silent film cowboy
