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1 Events
2 Top grossing films
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4 Movies released
5 Short film series
6 Animated short film series
7 Births
8 Deaths

Events

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

The Singing Fool
The Lights of New York
West of Zanzibar

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.

Movies released

Movies released in 1928 include:

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.
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, starring Renée Jeanne Falconetti.
The Last Command, starring Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent and William Powell.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh, starring Lon Chaney.
The Lights of New York (a true 'talkie' with Vitaphone sound)
The Man Who Laughs, starring Mary Philbin and Conrad Veidt.
The Matinee Idol, starring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker; directed by Frank Capra.
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.
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.
Street Angel, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell.
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

Animated short film series

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)

Deaths

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