* 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.

Mary Pickford, 1916

In 1916, Pickford signed a new contract with Zukor that granted her full authority over production of the films in which she starred, and a record-breaking salary of $ 500 a week.

" Pickford first demanded ( and received ) these powers in 1916, when she was under contract to Adolph Zukor's Famous Players In Famous Plays ( later Paramount ).

Actresses such as Mary Pickford in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere ( 1916 ), Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and White Tiger, and Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue.

This was $ 7, 000 per week less than what Mary Pickford made in 1916.

Pickford eloped with Thomas on October 25, 1916 in New Jersey.

Thomas eloped with Pickford on October 25, 1916 in New Jersey.

Joe Rock began his career as a stunt double for Mary Pickford, A short-lived career with Vitagraph Studios as a comedian teamed with Earl Montgomery in countless comedy shorts as Hash and Havoc ( 1916 ), Stowaways and Strategy ( 1917 ), Farms and Fumbles ( 1918 ), Harems and Hookum ( 1919 ), Zip and Zest ( 1919 ), Vamps and Variety ( 1919 ), Rubes and Robbers ( 1919 ), Cave and Coquettes ( 1919 ), Throbs and Thrills ( 1920 ), Loafers and Lovers ( 1920 ), Sauce and Senoritas ( 1920 ) and many more.

In 1916 William Fox searched to find a " second Mary Pickford.

Poirot had been forcibly retired from the Belgian police force prior to the time he met Hastings in 1916 as a refugee on the case retold in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

If they had gone it alone, the IRB and the Volunteers would possibly have come to their aid ; however, the IRB leaders met with Connolly in January 1916 and convinced him to join forces with them.

Nehru first met Gandhi in 1916, at the Lucknow session of the Congress.

By 1916, Flaherty had enough footage that he began test screenings and was met with wide enthusiasm.

In 1916 he met Nina Andreievskaya, whom he married the following year.

Just before sailing together to the Marquesas Islands in 1936, Heyerdahl married his first wife, Liv Coucheron-Torp ( b. 1916 ), whom he had met shortly before enrolling at the university, and who had studied economics there.

On 15 and 29 November 1916, as the Battle of the Somme paused, Sir Douglas Haig met Général d ' Armée Joffre and the other Allies at Chantilly.

Initially attracted to London by the " strange new subject called psychoanalysis ", he met and was impressed by Wilfred Trotter, an outstanding brain surgeon who had also written the famous Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War in 1916, based on the horrors of the First World War.

In April 1916, Wallis met Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr., a U. S. Navy aviator, at Pensacola, Florida, while visiting her cousin Corinne Mustin.

When the Federal Parliamentary Labor caucus met on 14 November 1916, lengthy discussions ensued until Hughes walked out with 24 other Labor members.

Thus, to mark the gratitude of the Mauritian people to those honourable martyrs, in 1916, even before the Remembrance Day was recognized, Governor Hesketh Bell announced that he had met in London with an eminent artist, J. A.

He first met George Gershwin, who was working as a song plugger in Jerome H. Remick's, in 1916.

While out on a journey in the Dublin mountains during Easter 1916 Lemass and his brother Noel met two sons of Professor Eoin MacNeill's.

According to Bax, they got on very well and, although they met only once, the execution of Pearse following the Easter Rebellion in 1916 prompted him to compose several laments, the most noted being In Memoriam Patric Pearse ( 1916 ), which contains the dedication ‘ I gCuimhne ar Phádraig Mac Piarais ’.

Peter D. Ouspensky, a Russian esoteric philosopher, met Gurdjieff in 1916 and spent the next few years studying with him, later forming his own independent groups which also focused on the Fourth Way.

Thomas de Hartmann, a Russian composer and prominent student and collaborator of Gurdjieff, first met Gurdjieff in 1916 in Saint Petersburg.

When his father sent him to Surabaya in 1916 to attend a Hogere Burger School ( Dutch-medium secondary school ), he met Tjokroaminoto, a nationalist and founder of Sarekat Islam, the owner of the boarding house where he lived.

He went out of his way to avoid criticizing the Roman Catholic Church and even met with Cardinal Gibbons during his 1916 Baltimore campaign.

Instead of returning to Hollywood, Loos spent the fall of 1916 in New York and met with Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair.

Zvíkovský rarášek ( The Zvíkov Imp, 1915, a comedy based on Stroupežnický ) and Karlštejn ( Karlštejn castle, 1916, a more serious work based on Vrchlický ) both met with mixed reviews, although the latter gained an important place in the repertoire of Czech opera houses through mid-century.

However, when the Constitutional Convention met in December 1916, it contained only 85 conservatives and centrists close to Carranza's brand of liberalism, a group known as the bloque renovador (" renewal faction ").

She first met Bertrand Russell in 1916 when joining him on a weekend walking tour.

* 1916 – Phil Leeds, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – George Montgomery, American actor ( d. 2000 )

* 2000 – William Moore, English actor ( b. 1916 )

* 1916 – Anthony Caruso, American actor ( d. 2003 )

He also often employed inanimate objects in his films, often transforming them into other objects in an almost surreal way, such as in The Pawnshop ( 1916 ) and One A. M. ( 1916 ), where Chaplin is the only actor aside Chester Conklin's brief appearance in the very first scene.

* 1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor

* 1916 – Edward Platt, American actor ( d. 1974 )

* 1916 – Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer and comedian ( d. 1987 )

* 1916 – John Reed, British actor and singer ( d. 2010 )

* John Young ( actor ) ( 1916 – 1996 ), Scottish actor

* 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor ( b. 1916 )

* 1916 – Bernard Blier, French actor ( d. 1989 )

* 1916 – Reg Varney, English actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – Dick Wilson, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1916 – Keenan Wynn, American actor ( d. 1986 )

* 1916 – Arnoldo Foà, Italian actor

* 1981 – Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and news presenter ( b. 1916 )

* 1989 – Bernard Blier, French actor ( b. 1916 )

* 2007 – Dick Wilson, American actor ( b. 1916 )

* 1916 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician ( d. 1986 )

* 1916 – Daws Butler, American voice actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1916 – Michael Gough, English actor ( d. 2011 )