1902 in film - Definition and Overview

Events

• March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
• Georges Méliès creates the legendary film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune), which in one scene features the animated human face of the moon being struck in the eye by a rocket.

Births

• January 31 -Tallulah Bankhead, actress (d. 1968)
• March 28 - Flora Robson, actress (d. 1984)
• April 1 - Mary Miles Minter, actress (d. 1984)
• May 2 - Brian Aherne, actor (d. 1986)
• May 3 - Walter Slezak, actor (d. 1983)
• May 10 - David O. Selznick, producer (d. 1965)
• May 10 - Anatole Litvak, director (d. 1974)
• May 15 - Anny Ondra, actress (d. 1987)
• May 30 - Stepin Fetchit, actor, dancer (d. 1985)
• June 5 - Walter Plunkett, costume designer (d. 1982)
• July 1 - William Wyler, director (d. 1981)
• July 7 - Vittorio De Sica, actor, director (d. 1974)
• July 26 - Gracie Allen, actress, comedienne (d. 1964)
• August 10 - Norma Shearer, actress (d. 1983)
• August 10 - Curt Siodmak, screenwriter (d. 2000)
• August 11 - Lloyd Nolan, actor (d. 1985)
• August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
• September 5 - Darryl F. Zanuck, producer, writer, director (d. 1979)
• September 22 - John Houseman, actor (d. 1988)
• September 28 - Ed Sullivan, television host, actor (d. 1974)
• October 5 - Larry Fine, of The Three Stooges (d. 1975)
• October 28 - Elsa Lanchester, actress (d. 1986)
• December 9 - Margaret Hamilton, actress(d. 1985)

Deaths