The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- Carl Laemmle founds the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP).
- Selig Polyscope Company establish the first permanent film studio in Los Angeles in Edendale, Los Angeles.
- The New York Motion Picture Company is founded and also open a film studio in Edendale. The studio is later used by Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and then Mascot Pictures, which become part of Republic Pictures.
- February 4 â The Paris Film Congress begins, an attempt by leading European producers to form a cartel similar to that of the Motion Picture Patents Company in the United States.
- February 26 â Kinemacolor is shown to the public for the first time in the Palace Theatre in London.
- March 16 â Charles Urban forms the Natural Color Kinematograph Company.
- May 12 â Mr. Flip is released, the first film to feature someone being hit in the face with a pie.
- May 23 â The first news cinema, The Daily Bioscope, opens in London.
- June 17 â In the Sultan's Power, directed by Francis Boggs, is the first film ever completely made in Los Angeles, California.
- October 25 â IMP release their first film, Hiawatha, based on the 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- November 5 - A Nature Movie by Arthur C. Pillsbury using film to explore the wonders of Yosemite. This first showing was for John Muir, a friend and associate of Pillsbury. Included was footage of the Hetch Hetchy. This film was then shown for the 1910 season at the Pillsbury Studio in Yosemite, advertised using postcards.
- December 2 â Matsunosuke Onoe, who will become the first superstar of Japanese cinema, appears in his first film, Goban Tadanobu.
- December 20 â James Joyce opens the Volta Cinematograph, the first cinema in Dublin.
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Births
- January 1 â Dana Andrews, actor (died 1992)
- January 3 â Victor Borge, musician, actor (died 2000)
- January 8 - Willy Millowitsch, actor (died 1999)
- January 15 â Gene Krupa, musician, actor (died 1973)
- January 22 â Ann Sothern, actress (died 2001)
- January 24 â Ann Todd, actress (died 1993)
- January 29 â Alan Marshal, actor (died 1961)
- February 2 â Frank Albertson, actor (died 1964)
- February 6 â Aino Talvi, Estonian actress (d. 1992)
- February 9
- Carmen Miranda, singer, actress (died 1955)
- Heather Angel, actress (died 1986)
- February 11
- Max Baer â boxer, actor (died 1959)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz â director, screenwriter, producer (died 1993)
- February 16
- Hugh Beaumont, actor, director, writer (died 1982)
- Jeffrey Lynn, actor (died 1995)
- March 19 â Louis Hayward, actor (died 1995)
- March 26 â Chips Rafferty, actor (died 1971)
- April 4 â Bobby Connelly, child actor (died 1922)
- April 22â Ralph Byrd, actor (died 1952)
- April 29 â Tom Ewell, actor (died 1994)
- May 4 â Howard Da Silva, actor, director (died 1986)
- May 15 â James Mason, actor (died 1984)
- May 16 â Margaret Sullavan, actress (died 1960)
- May 24 â Victoria Hopper, Canadian-born British actress and singer (died 2007)
- May 30 â Benny Goodman, musician, actor (died 1986)
- June 7 â Jessica Tandy, actress (died 1994)
- June 8 â Robert Carson, actor (died 1979)
- June 14 â Burl Ives, actor (died 1995)
- June 20 â Errol Flynn, actor (died 1959)
- June 26- Wolfgang Reitherman, director, producer, animator (died 1985)
- July 1 â Madge Evans, actress (died 1981)
- July 11
- Irene Hervey, actress (died 1998)
- John 'Dusty' King, actor, singer (died 1987)
- July 12 â Curly Joe DeRita, actor (died 1993)
- July 23 â Helen Martin, American actress (died 2000)
- July 24 - Sydney Bromley, English character actor (died 1987)
- August 25
- Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (died 1993)
- Michael Rennie, actor (died 1971)
- August 26 â Jim Davis, American actor (died 1981)
- September 7 â Elia Kazan, director (died 2003)
- September 27 - Amerigo Tot, Hungarian actor (died 1984)
- October 6 â Robert Carson, screenwriter (died 1983)
- October 20 â Carla Laemmle, actress (died 2014)
- October 29 â Douglass Montgomery, actor (died 1966)
- November 11 â Robert Ryan, actor (died 1973)
- November 26 â Frances Dee, actress (died 2004)
- December 9 â Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor (died 2000)
- December 12 â Karen Morley, actress (died 2003)
- December 20 â Diane Ellis, actress (died 1930)
- December 22 - Patricia Hayes, English character actress (died 1998)
Deaths
- January 27 â Benoît-Constant Coquelin, actor, Cyrano de Bergerac (born 1841)
- September 4 â Clyde Fitch, author & playwright whose works have been adapted into films. (born 1865)
Film debuts
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