1907 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Films released in 1907 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• January 19 - Variety publishes its first film review.
• June 20 - L'Enfant prodigue, the first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, opens in Paris.
• November 28 - In Haverville, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater (in a few years he had the largest theater chain in New England and in 1917 he founded his own production company, which eventually became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).
• Carl Laemmle of Paramount experiments with combining audio from phonographs with film. Laemmle's experiements lead to the German development of "Syncroscope." "Syncroscope" had several successful demonstrations, but was eventually abandoned.
• The Kalem Company founded in New York City by Frank J. Marion, Samuel Long, and George Kleine. They would make the first Ben-Hur film, directed by Sidney Olcott.

[edit] Films released in 1907

• Ben-Hur
• L'Enfant prodigue
• Tunneling the Channel

[edit] Births

Month	Day	Name	Profession	Year of death
January	3	Ray Milland	actor	1986
	16	Alexander Knox	actor	1995
	20	Paula Wessley	actress, producer	2000
	22	Mary Dresselhuys	actress	2004
February	15	Cesar Romero	actor	1994
	17	Buster Crabbe	actor	1983
	22	Robert Young	actor	1998
March	11	Jessie Matthews	actress, singer	1981
	19	Kent Smith	actor	1985
	31	Eddie Quillan	actor	1990
April	3	Iron Eyes Cody	actor	1999
	19	Lina Basquette	actress	1994
	29	Fred Zinnemann	director	1997
May	12	Katharine Hepburn	actress	2003
	22	Laurence Olivier	actor	1989
	26	John Wayne	actor	1979
June	4	Rosalind Russell	actress	1976
	16	Jack Albertson	actor	1981
	24	Martha Sleeper	actress	1987
July	14	Olive Borden	actress	1947
	16	Barbara Stanwyck	actress	1990
	19	Isabel Jewell	actress	1972
	27	Ross Alexander	actor	1937
August	3	Adrienne Ames	actress	1947
	12	Joe Besser	actor, comedian	1988
September	15	Fay Wray	actress	2004
	29	Gene Autry	actor	1998
December	22	Peggy Ashcroft	actress	1991

[edit] Deaths