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]
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 )
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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
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