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.) [ edit ] 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]
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 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 October 7 – Warner Brothers release the second Vitaphone film, The Better 'Ole 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 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 [ edit ] For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1926
Bardelys the Magnificent King Vidor , starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman The Bat Roland West , based on the 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood [8] Battling Butler Buster Keaton filmBeau Geste Herbert Brenon , starring Ronald Colman The Bells James Young , starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff The Better 'Ole Charles Reisner , starring Syd Chaplin Beverly of Graustark Sidney Franklin , starring Marion Davies and Antonio Moreno The Black Pirate Albert Parker , starring Douglas Fairbanks and Billie Dove La Bohème King Vidor , starring Lillian Gish , John Gilbert and Renée Adorée Bride of Glomdal (Glomdalsbruden)Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark )Brown of Harvard Jack Conway , starring William Haines , Jack Pickford and Mary Brian Brudeferden i Hardanger (The Bridal Procession in Hardanger)Rasmus Breistein – (Norway )Madame Mystery Richard Wallace and Stan Laurel , starring Theda Bara and Oliver Hardy The Magician Rex Ingram , starring Alice Terry and Paul Wegener Manon Lescaut Arthur Robison , starring Lya De Putti – (Germany )Mare Nostrum Rex Ingram , starring Alice Terry and Antonio Moreno Ménilmontant Dimitri Kirsanoff – (France )Michel Strogoff Viktor Tourjansky , starring Ivan Mozzhukhin - (France )Midnight Faces Bennett Cohen , starring Francis X. Bushman Jr. [9] Miss Mend Boris Barnet and Fedor Ozep – (U.S.S.R. )Mother (Mat)Vsevolod Pudovkin – (U.S.S.R. )My Stars Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle )Scared Stiff , directed by James W. Horne [10] The Scarlet Letter Victor Sjöström , starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson The Sea Beast Millard Webb , starring John Barrymore and Dolores Costello Secrets of a Soul (Geheimnisse einer Seele)G. W. Pabst , starring Werner Krauss – (Germany )Shivering Spooks Robert F. McGowan , an Our Gang short[11] The Show-Off Mal St. Clair , starring Lois Wilson , Ford Sterling and Louise Brooks The Son of the Sheik George Fitzmaurice , starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky So This is Paris Ernst Lubitsch , starring Monte Blue So's Your Old Man Gregory La Cava , starring W. C. Fields The Sorrows of Satan D. W. Griffith , starring Adolphe Menjou and Ricardo Cortez , based on the 1895 novel by Marie Corelli Sparrows William Beaudine , starring Mary Pickford The Strong Man Frank Capra , starring Harry Langdon The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag)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 )Tartuffe (Herr Tartüff)F. W. Murnau , starring Emil Jannings – (Germany )Tell It to the Marines George W. Hill , starring Lon Chaney , Eleanor Boardman and William Haines The Temptress Fred Niblo , starring Greta Garbo , Antonio Moreno and Lionel Barrymore The Three Million Trial (Процесс о трех миллионах)Yakov Protazanov – (U.S.S.R. )Torrent Monta Bell , starring Ricardo Cortez and Greta Garbo Tramp, Tramp, Tramp Harry Edwards , starring Harry Langdon and Joan Crawford A Trip to Chinatown Robert P. Kerr , starring Margaret Livingston The Triumph of the Rat Graham Cutts , starring Ivor Novello and Isabel Jeans – (GB )What Price Glory? Raoul Walsh , starring Edmund Lowe , Victor McLaglen and Dolores del Río While London Sleeps Howard Bretherton , starring Rin Tin Tin [13] Whispering Wires Albert Ray , based on the novel by Henry Leverage[14] The Winning of Barbara Worth Henry King , starring Ronald Colman , Vilma Bánky and Gary Cooper A Woman of the Sea Josef von Sternberg , starring Edna Purviance Comedy film series [ edit ] Animated short film series [ edit ] Felix the Cat Koko the Clown 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 Un-Natural History (1925–1927)Pete the Pup 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 ) 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 [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ a b "The All Time Best Sellers" . International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38Quigley Publishing Company . p. 942. Retrieved April 8, 2018 .^ Krämer, Peter (2019). The General . ISBN 978-1-8387-1889-3 In addition, the strongly comedy-inflected, spectacular adventure films starring Fairbanks, who was known for his onscreen acrobatics (as well as his infectious smile), ranked highly in the annual charts – The Thief of Bagdad at no. 3 in 1924, Don Q, Son of Zorro at no. 4 in 1925 and The Black Pirate at no. 4 in 1926 – with domestic rentals of between $1.5 million and $1.7 million. ^ Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood . University Press of Kentucky . p. 210. ISBN 978-0-8131-2636-4 ^ a b c Glancy, H Mark (1995). "Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television . 15 . ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study^ Balio, Tino (2009). 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