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Overview of the events of 1926 in film
Overview of the events of 1926 in film
The following is an overview of 1926 in film , including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1926 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1926
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
What Price Glory?
Fox Film
$2,000,000
[1]
2
The Black Pirate
United Artists
$1,700,000
[2]
3
Beau Geste
Paramount
$1,500,000
[1]
4
The Volga Boatman
Producers Distributing Corporation
$1,275,375
[3]
5
Don Juan
Warner Bros.
$1,258,000
[4]
6
Tell It to the Marines
MGM
$1,250,000
[5]
7
The Son of the Sheik
United Artists
$1,000,000
[6]
8
The Better 'Ole
Warner Bros.
$955,000
[4]
9
The Sea Beast
$814,000
[4]
10
The Temptress
MGM
$587,000
[5]
Events
February – The oldest surviving animated feature film is released in the
Weimar Republic , directed by
Lotte Reiniger . It is called
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed ).
August 5 –
Warner Brothers debuts the first
Vitaphone film,
Don Juan . The Vitaphone system uses multiple 33+ 1 ⁄3 rpm
gramophone records developed by
Bell Telephone Laboratories and
Western Electric to play back music and sound effects synchronized with film.
August 23 –
Rudolph Valentino , whose film
The Son of the Sheik was currently playing, dies at the age of 31 in New York. Riots occur at the funeral parlor as thousands of people try to see his body.
October 7 – Warner Brothers release the second Vitaphone film,
The Better 'Ole , starring
Sydney Chaplin .
December 5 – The 1925 Soviet film
Battleship Potemkin premieres in the United States, at the
Biltmore Theatre in Manhattan.
[7]
Theodore W. Case and E. I. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to
William Fox of the
Fox Film Corporation . The Fox-Case Corp. is formed in an effort to exploit the system, which is given the name
Movietone . Fox begin to create
Movietone News newsreels at this time. One of the first newsreels is of
Charles Lindbergh 's takeoff for Paris.
Al Jolson films
A Plantation Act , one of the first unreleased talkies and a test film for
The Jazz Singer
Ang Tatlong Hambog (The Three Humbugs), the first Filipino film to feature a kissing (make out) scene, is released in the Philippines.
Notable films released in 1926
For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see
United States films of 1926
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Bardelys the Magnificent , directed by
King Vidor , starring
John Gilbert and
Eleanor Boardman
The Bat , directed by
Roland West , based on the 1920
play by
Mary Roberts Rinehart and
Avery Hopwood
[8]
Battling Butler , a
Buster Keaton film
Beau Geste , directed by
Herbert Brenon , starring
Ronald Colman
The Bells , directed by
James Young , starring
Lionel Barrymore and
Boris Karloff
The Better 'Ole , directed by
Charles Reisner , starring
Syd Chaplin
Beverly of Graustark , directed by
Sidney Franklin , starring
Marion Davies and
Antonio Moreno
The Black Pirate , directed by
Albert Parker , starring
Douglas Fairbanks and
Billie Dove
La Bohème , directed by
King Vidor , starring
Lillian Gish ,
John Gilbert and
Renée Adorée
Bride of Glomdal (Glomdalsbruden) , directed by
Carl Theodor Dreyer – (
Denmark )
Brown of Harvard , directed by
Jack Conway , starring
William Haines ,
Jack Pickford and
Mary Brian
Brudeferden i Hardanger (The Bridal Procession in Hardanger) , directed by
Rasmus Breistein – (
Norway )
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Madame Mystery , directed by
Richard Wallace and
Stan Laurel , starring
Theda Bara and
Oliver Hardy
The Magician , directed by
Rex Ingram , starring
Alice Terry and
Paul Wegener
Manon Lescaut , directed by
Arthur Robison , starring
Lya De Putti – (
Germany )
Mare Nostrum , directed by
Rex Ingram , starring
Alice Terry and
Antonio Moreno
Ménilmontant , directed by
Dimitri Kirsanoff – (
France )
Michel Strogoff , directed by
Viktor Tourjansky , starring
Ivan Mozzhukhin - (
France )
Midnight Faces , directed by
Bennett Cohen , starring
Francis X. Bushman Jr.
[9]
Miss Mend , directed by
Boris Barnet and
Fedor Ozep – (
U.S.S.R. )
Mother (Mat) , directed by
Vsevolod Pudovkin – (
U.S.S.R. )
My Stars , directed by William Goodrich (
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle )
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Scared Stiff , directed by
James W. Horne
[10]
The Scarlet Letter , directed by
Victor Sjöström , starring
Lillian Gish and
Lars Hanson
The Sea Beast , directed by
Millard Webb , starring
John Barrymore and
Dolores Costello
Secrets of a Soul (Geheimnisse einer Seele) , directed by
G. W. Pabst , starring
Werner Krauss – (
Germany )
Shivering Spooks , directed by
Robert F. McGowan , an
Our Gang short
[11]
The Show-Off , directed by
Mal St. Clair , starring
Lois Wilson ,
Ford Sterling and
Louise Brooks
The Son of the Sheik , directed by
George Fitzmaurice , starring
Rudolph Valentino and
Vilma Bánky
So This is Paris , directed by
Ernst Lubitsch , starring
Monte Blue
So's Your Old Man , directed by
Gregory La Cava , starring
W. C. Fields
The Sorrows of Satan , directed by
D. W. Griffith , starring
Adolphe Menjou and
Ricardo Cortez , based on the 1895
novel by
Marie Corelli
Sparrows , directed by
William Beaudine , starring
Mary Pickford
The Strong Man , directed by
Frank Capra , starring
Harry Langdon
The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag) , directed by
Henrik Galeen , starring
Conrad Veidt and
Werner Krauss – (
Germany )
Sweeney Todd , directed by
George Dewhurst , based on the 1847 stage play The String of Pearls, or The Fiend of Fleet Street by
George Dibdin-Pitt
[12] – (
GB )
T
Tartuffe (Herr Tartüff) , directed by
F. W. Murnau , starring
Emil Jannings – (
Germany )
Tell It to the Marines , directed by
George W. Hill , starring
Lon Chaney ,
Eleanor Boardman and
William Haines
The Temptress , directed by
Fred Niblo , starring
Greta Garbo ,
Antonio Moreno and
Lionel Barrymore
The Three Million Trial (Процесс о трех миллионах) , directed by
Yakov Protazanov – (
U.S.S.R. )
Torrent , directed by
Monta Bell , starring
Ricardo Cortez and
Greta Garbo
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp , directed by
Harry Edwards , starring
Harry Langdon and
Joan Crawford
A Trip to Chinatown (lost), directed by
Robert P. Kerr , starring
Margaret Livingston
The Triumph of the Rat , directed by
Graham Cutts , starring
Ivor Novello and
Isabel Jeans – (
GB )
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What Price Glory? , directed by
Raoul Walsh , starring
Edmund Lowe ,
Victor McLaglen and
Dolores del Río
While London Sleeps (lost), directed by
Howard Bretherton , starring
Rin Tin Tin
[13]
Whispering Wires , directed by
Albert Ray , based on the novel by Henry Leverage
[14]
The Winning of Barbara Worth , directed by
Henry King , starring
Ronald Colman ,
Vilma Bánky and
Gary Cooper
A Woman of the Sea (unreleased), directed by
Josef von Sternberg , starring
Edna Purviance
Y
Comedy film series
Animated short film series
Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
Koko the Clown (1919–1934)
Alice Comedies
Alice on the Farm
Alice's Balloon Race
Alice's Orphan
Alice's Little Parade
Alice's Mysterious Mystery
Alice Charms the Fish
Alice's Monkey Business
Alice in the Wooly West
Alice the Fire Fighter
Alice Cuts the Ice
Alice Helps the Romance
Alice's Spanish Guitar
Alice's Brown Derby
Alice the Lumber Jack
Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924–1927)
Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
Un-Natural History (1925–1927)
Pete the Pup (1926–1927)
Births
January 1 –
Zena Marshall , British actress (died 2009)
January 6 –
Mickey Hargitay , Hungarian-American actor and 1955 Mr. Universe (died 2006)
January 14 –
Tom Tryon , actor and novelist (died 1991)
January 15 –
Maria Schell , actress (died 2005)
January 17 –
Moira Shearer , actress and dancer (died 2006)
January 18 –
Salah Zulfikar , actor (died 1993)
January 19 –
Fritz Weaver , actor (died 2016)
January 20 –
Patricia Neal , actress (died 2010)
January 25 –
Ted White , American stuntman and actor (died 2022)
January 30 –
Ramesh Deo , Indian actor (died
2022 )
February 1 –
Nancy Gates , actress (died
2019 )
February 2 –
Lia Laats , actress (died 2004)
February 11 –
Leslie Nielsen , actor and comedian (died 2010)
February 16 –
John Schlesinger , director (died 2003)
February 20 –
Gillian Lynne , dancer, actress and choreographer (died
2018 )
February 23 –
Dorothy Steel , American actress (died
2021 )
March 1 –
Robert Clary , French-American actor and singer (died
2022 )
March 5 –
Joan Shawlee , American actress (died 1987)
March 6 –
Andrzej Wajda , director (died 2016)
March 13 -
Lenny Montana , American actor (died 1992)
March 16 –
Jerry Lewis , American actor (died
2017 )
[15]
March 18 –
Peter Graves , American actor (died
2010 )
March 21 –
André Delvaux , Belgian director (died
2002 )
March 25 –
Gene Shalit , American film critic
March 30 –
Peter Marshall , American former game show host, television and radio personality, singer and actor
April 5 –
Roger Corman , American director
April 7
April 8
April 12 –
Jane Withers , American actress (died 2021)
April 14 –
Gloria Jean , American actress and singer (died 2018)
April 22 –
Charlotte Rae , American actress (died 2018)
April 25 –
Patricia Castell , Argentine actress (died 2013)
April 27 -
Leo De Lyon , American actor (died 2021)
April 29 -
Leonard Fenton , English actor and director (died 2022)
April 30 –
Cloris Leachman , American actress (died 2021)
May 4
May 5 –
Bing Russell , American actor, minor-league baseball club owner (died
2003 )
May 7 –
Val Bisoglio , American character actor (died 2021)
May 8
May 10
May 11
May 12 –
Marilyn Knowlden , American former child actress
May 17 -
Maria Duval , Argentine actress (died 2022)
May 19 -
Michelle Marquais , French actress (died 2022)
May 25 –
Claude Akins , American actor (died 1994)
May 30 –
Nina Agapova , Russian actress (died 2021)
June 1
June 5 –
Lu Leonard , American actress (died 2004)
June 9
June 10
June 13 –
Paul Lynde , American comedian and actor (died 1982)
June 15 -
Jesús Guzmán , Spanish actor (died
2023 )
June 17 -
Elio Pandolfi , Italian actor, radio personality and voice actor (died 2021)
June 28 –
Mel Brooks , American actor, comedian and filmmaker
July 5 –
Diana Lynn , American actress (died 1971)
July 10 –
Carleton Carpenter , American actor, magician, author and songwriter (died 2022)
July 12 -
Sandy Ward , American actor (died 2005)
July 14 –
Harry Dean Stanton , American character actor (died 2017)
July 15 -
Albert Popwell , American actor (died 1999)
July 20 –
Diane Hart , English actress, inventor (died
2002 )
July 21 –
Norman Jewison , Canadian director (died
2024 )
July 22 –
Bryan Forbes , English director (died 2013)
July 23 -
Rae Allen , American actress, director and singer (died 2022)
August 7 –
Stan Freberg , American voice actor, author, radio personality and comedian (died 2015)
August 11 -
Charles Cooper , American actor (died 2013)
August 29 –
Betty Lynn , American actress (died 2021)
September 7 -
Don Messick , American voice actor (died 1997)
September 19 –
James Lipton , American actor, screenwriter and presenter (died 2020)
September 23 -
Henry Silva , American actor (died 2022)
September 25 -
Aldo Ray , actor (died
1991 )
September 26 -
Julie London , American singer, actress (died
2000 )
September 28 -
Ralph Ahn , American actor (died 2022)
October 15
October 17
October 18 –
Klaus Kinski , German actor (died 1991)
October 25 –
Biff McGuire , American actor (died 2021)
November 1 –
Betsy Palmer , American actress (died
2015 )
November 13 -
Don Gordon , American actor (died
2017 )
November 17 -
Robert Brown , American actor (died 2022)
November 25
November 26 -
Ed Williams , American actor
November 30 –
Richard Crenna , American actor (died 2003)
December 1
December 11 -
Richard Devon , American actor (died 2010)
December 18 –
Walter Lassally , German-born British-Greek cinematographer (died 2017)
December 27 –
Jerome Courtland , American actor, director, producer (died
2012 )
Deaths
January 30 –
Barbara La Marr , actress (born 1896)
February 6 –
Carrie Clark Ward , actress (born 1862)
April 20 –
Billy Quirk , actor (born 1873)
March 2 –
Victory Bateman , actress (born 1865)
May 7 -
Lillian Lawrence , actress (born 1868)
July 22 –
Willard Louis , actor (born 1882)
July 23 - Charles Avery
[17]
August 22 – Joe Moore, actor, brother of Mary Moore, Matt Moore,
Owen Moore &
Tom Moore
August 23 –
Rudolph Valentino , actor (born 1895)
August 30 –
Eddie Lyons , American actor (born 1886)
September 8 – Kisaburo Kurihara, Japanese actor (born 1885)
September 11 –
Matsunosuke Onoe , actor (born 1875)
October 31 –
Harry Houdini , magician & actor (born 1874)
November 7 –
Tom Forman , silent film actor & director (born 1893)
November 8 –
James K Hackett , stage & silent film actor (born 1869)
November 17 – Harold Vosburgh, silent film actor (born 1870)
Film debuts
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