1926 in film

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This is a list of films that were released in 1926.

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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 6 - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system uses multiple 33⅓ rpm gramophone records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back music and sound effects synchronized with film.
• October 7 - Warner Brothers release the second Vitaphone film, The Better 'Ole, starring Sydney Chaplin.
• 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

Top grossing films

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	Aloma of the South Seas	$3,000,000[1]
2.	What Price Glory?	$700,000[2]
3.	The Great K & A Train Robbery
4.	Beau Geste
5.	Flesh and the Devil
6.	Sparrows
7.	For Heaven's Sake
8.	My Yankee Senor
9.	Don Juan
10.	The Sea Beast
11.	La Bohème
12.	The Temptress
13.	Torrent

Notable films released in 1926

U.S.A. unless stated

• 3 Bad Men, directed by John Ford
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed, directed by Lotte Reiniger - (Germany)
• Aloma of the South Seas, directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Gilda Gray & William Powell
• Bardelys the Magnificent, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman
• The Bat, directed by Roland West
• Battling Butler, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• Beau Geste, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Ronald Colman and Alice Joyce
• The Bells, directed by James Young, starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff
• 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
• Brown of Harvard directed by Jack Conway, starring William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian
• Brudeferden i Hardanger (The bridal procession in Hardanger) - (Norway)
• Cab No. 13 (Einspanner Nr 13), directed by Michael Curtiz - (Germany)
• Cruise of the Jasper B, starring Rod La Rocque, Mildred Harris and Snitz Edwards
• Dangerous Traffic, directed by Bennett Cohen, starring Ralph Bushman, Mildred Harris and Jack Perrin
• The Devil's Circus, starring Norma Shearer
• The Devil's Wheel (Chyortovo koleso) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Don Juan, directed by Alan Crosland, starring John Barrymore
• Falešná kočička aneb Když si žena umíní (Fake Woman or When He is a She) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Faust, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman and Emil Jannings - (Germany)
• Flesh and the Devil, directed by Clarence Brown, starring John Gilbert and Greta Garbo
• Fool's Luck, directed by Fatty Arbukle, starring Lupino Lane and George Davis
• For Heaven's Sake, directed by Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston
• The General, starring Buster Keaton
• The Golden Butterfly (Der goldene Schmetterling), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lili Damita and Nils Asther - (Germany)
• The Great Gatsby, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Warner Baxter and Lois Wilson
• The Great K & A Train Robbery, starring Tom Mix
• Hands Up!
• The Holy Mountain (Der heilige Berg), starring Leni Riefenstahl - (Germany)
• In the Way of Zorro
• Irene, starring Colleen Moore. In color sequence by Technicolor.
• The Johnstown Flood, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor
• Kid Boots, starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow
• The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) - (Italy)
• Love's Berries (Yagodka lyubvi) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Madame Mystery, directed by Richard Wallace and Stan Laurel, starring Theda Bara
• The Magician, directed by Rex Ingram starring Alice Terry
• Manon Lescaut, UFA production; directed by Arthur Robison starring Lya De Putti - (Germany)
• Mare Nostrum, directed by Rex Ingram, starring Antonio Moreno and Alice Terry
• Michel Strogoff
• Miss Mend, directed by Fyodor Otsep, starring Boris Barnet - (U.S.S.R.)
• Mother, directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin - (U.S.S.R.)
• My Stars, directed by Fatty Arbuckle
• Nana directed by Jean Renoir - (France)
• Nell Gwyn directed by Herbert Wilcox; starring Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton - (GB)
• Nelson, starring Cedric Hardwicke - (GB)
• Old Ironsides directed by James Cruze; starring Esther Ralston
• The Overcoat (Shinel) - (U.S.S.R.)
• A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippēji) - (Japan)
• Rien que les heures (Nothing but Time), directed by Alberto Cavalcanti - (France)
• The Scarlet Letter, starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson
• The Sea Beast, starring John Barrymore, Dolores Costello and George O'Hara
• The Show Off, directed by Mal St. Clair; starring Ford Sterling, Lois Wilson and Louise Brooks
• The Son of the Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky
• So's Your Old Man, starring W. C. Fields
• The Sorrows of Satan, starring Adolphe Menjou
• Sparrows, directed by William Beaudine, starring Mary Pickford
• The Strong Man, starring Harry Langdon
• The Student of Prague, starring Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Agnes Esterhazy and Fritz Alberti - (Germany)
• Tartuffe, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Emil Jannings - (Germany)
• The Temptress, starring Greta Garbo and Antonio Moreno
• The Three Million Trial - (U.S.S.R.)
• Torrent, starring Ricardo Cortez and Greta Garbo
• Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, starring Harry Langdon and Joan Crawford
• A Trip to Chinatown, starring Margaret Livingston and Earle Foxe
• The Triumph of the Rat, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Ivor Novello and Isabel Jeans - (GB)
• The Volga Boatman, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring William Boyd
• What Price Glory?, starring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and Dolores del Río
• The Winning of Barbara Worth, starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky and Gary Cooper
• A Woman of the Sea, directed by Josef von Sternberg; starring Edna Purviance

Comedy film series

• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
• Harry Langdon (1924–1936)

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 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist (died 1991)
• January 15 - Maria Schell, actress (died 2005)
• January 17 - Moira Shearer, actress, dancer (died 2006)
• January 19 - Fritz Weaver, actor
• January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress (died 2010)
• February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, actor, comedian (died 2010)
• February 16 - John Schlesinger, director (died 2003)
• February 20 - Gillian Lynne, dancer, actress, choreographer
• March 6 - Andrzej Wajda, director
• March 16 - Jerry Lewis, actor
• April 7 - Prem Nazir, Indian actor (died 1989)
• April 12 - Jane Withers, actress
• April 14 - Gloria Jean, actress, singer
• April 22 - Charlotte Rae, actress
• April 30 - Cloris Leachman, actress
• May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and actor
• May 11 - Frank Thring, Australian actor (died 1994)
• June 1
  • Andy Griffith, actor (died 2012)
  • Marilyn Monroe, actress (died 1962)
• June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer
• July 10 - Carleton Carpenter, actor, magician, author, songwriter
• July 14 - Harry Dean Stanton, actor
• July 21 - Norman Jewison, director
• July 22 - Bryan Forbes, director (died 2013)
• August 7 - Stan Freberg, voice actor, author, radio personality, comedian (died 2015)
• August 29 - Betty Lynn, actress
• September 19 - James Lipton, American actor, screenwriter, and presenter
• October 17
  • Beverly Garland, actress (died 2008)
  • Julie Adams, actress
• October 18 - Klaus Kinski, actor (died 1991)
• November 30 - Richard Crenna, actor (died 2003)

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)
• July 22 - Willard Louis, actor (born 1882)
• 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

• Mickey Rooney - Not to Be Trusted (as Mickey McBain}
• John Wayne - Brown of Harvard

References

1. "Aloma of the South Seas Gross". worldwideboxoffice.com. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
2. "What Price Glory Gross". worldwideboxoffice.com. Retrieved 2012-07-23.