Events in Film & TV
Event of Interest
Feb 1 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey
Thomas Edison
- Feb 2 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, New Jersey
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Feb 10 Jimmy Durante, American long-nosed comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash), born in NYC, New York
- Feb 19 Cedric Hardwicke, British stage actor (Rope, Suspicion, Peter Pan, Richard III), born in Lye, Worcestershire, England (d. 1964)
- Feb 21 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
- Feb 26 William Frawley, American actor (I Love Lucy, My 3 Sons), born in Burlington, Iowa (d. 1966)
- Feb 28 Ben Hecht, American novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page), born in NYC, New York