Events in Film & TV
- Feb 26 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
- Jun 24 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract
- Sep 5 "Intolerance", silent film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Vera Lewis and Ralph Lewis, is released
- Nov 19 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Picture; the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers
Weddings in Film & TV
- Mar 22 British author of "The Lord of the Rings", J.R.R. Tolkien marries Edith Mary Bratt at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick
- Mar 27 Actress Gloria Swanson (17) weds actor Wallace Beery (30)
Actors and Actresses Who Died in 1916
- Jan 8 Ada Rehan, Irish-American stage actress and comedian (Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre), dies from arteriosclerosis and cancer at 58