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The History of French Cinema: 1923 

Ladislas Starevich’s short puppet film La Petite chanteuse des rues is released. [ADD]

The Film Authors’ Society responds to the assertion by Pierre Gilles of the Matin that ‘the cinema is an industrial commodity that the silent partner can manipulate with impunity,’ with the statement that ‘the artistic qualities of a film remain the property of the director.’ [ADD]

Louis Delluc, who has been unwell since filming l’Inondation (The Flood) submits an article to the daily Bonsoir. [ADD]

Louis Delluc dies of tuberculosis. [ADD]

Actress Camille Bardou leaves Marseille to film Le Lion des Mogols (The Lion of the Mogols) for Albetros.   Ivan Mosjoukine and Nathalie Lissenko co-star with Jean Epstein directing. [ADD]

Gaumont form a partnership with Loew’s-Metro to distribute their releases in France. [ADD]

The Cinema Club organises a showing at the Colisée of André Antoine’s unreleased 1920 film L'Hirondelle et la mésange (The Sparrow and the Tit). [ADD]

Police arrest artists from the Paris Casino in a park in Versailles as they are filmed nude in orgiastic scenes for an Austrian production.   The films directors are imprisoned. [ADD]

Parisian councillor Charles Desvaux requests the prefect to ban Sven Gades Danish version of Hamlet in which Asta Nielsen plays the title role, proclaiming it to be ‘a vulgar melodrama with a pathetic scenario’. [ADD]

La Voyante, Sarah Bernhardt’s final film is released.   The actress died during production.   Harry Baur, Mary Marquet and Georges Melchior also star. [ADD]

Following United Artists' opposition to the American release of his last film, Au Secours, Max Linder calls for a stand against the number of American films flooding the domestic market. [ADD]

American actress Gloria Swanson arrives in France to star in Madame Sans-Géne for director Léonce Perret. [ADD]

A preview of Raymond Bernard’s The Miracle of the Wolves is held in Paris. [ADD]