1924 in film

Events

• Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• 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.
• CBC Distributions corp. is renamed Columbia Pictures

Top grossing films

1. The Sea Hawk (1924 film)
2. He Who Gets Slapped
3. Girl Shy
4. A Society Scandal
5. Humming Bird
6. The Marriage Circle
7. Beau Brummell
8. The Thief of Bagdad
9. Greed
10. Secrets
11. Hot Water (1924 film)

Films released in 1924

• Aelita, directed by Yakov Protazanov.
• America (film), directed by D.W. Griffith.
• Ballet Mécanique, directed by Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger.
• 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.
• Hot Water (1924 film), starring Harold Lloyd
• The Humming Bird, starring Gloria Swanson
• The Iron Horse, starring George O'Brien.
• Isn't Life Wonderful, directed by D.W. Griffith.
• Janice Meredith, starring Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, and Tyrone Power, Sr.
• The Last Laugh
• The Marriage Circle, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
• Michael, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
• Monsieur Beaucaire, starring Rudolph Valentino, directed by Sidney Olcott.
• The Navigator, starring Buster Keaton
• Peter Pan, starring Betty Bronson.
• The Sea Hawk (1924 film), starring Milton Sills.
• Secrets, starring Norma Talmadge
• Sherlock, Jr.
• 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)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
• Koko the Clown (1919-1934)
• Alice Comedies (1923-1927)

Births

• January 16 - Katy Jurado, actress († 2002)
• January 21 - Telly Savalas, actor († 1994)
• 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 († 2006)
• September 16 - Lauren Bacall, actress
• September 28 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor († 1996)
• September 30 - Truman Capote, author († 1984)
• November 22 - Geraldine Page, actress
• December 25 - Rod Serling, screenwriter († 1975)

Film Debuts

• Clark Gable
• Johannes Heesters

Deaths

• April 21 - Eleanora Duse, veteran & revered Italian stage actress who made one film in 1916.
• September 23 - Ben Deeley, film actor married to Barbara La Marr
• October 12 - Kate Lester, veteran stage & film actress, age 67.
• November 19 - Thomas Ince, actor & pioneer film producer