1928 in film

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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.

Top grossing films

1. The Singing Fool
2. Lights of New York
3. West of Zanzibar

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)

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)

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)

Film Debuts

• Charles Laughton

Deaths

• August 10 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
• December 14 - Theodore Roberts, Silent actor

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