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*[[1925 in film]]

*[[1926]]
The following is an overview of '''1926 in film''', including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.
*[[1927 in film]]

*[[1920s in film]]
==Top-grossing films (U.S.)==
*[[list of 'years in film'|years in film]]
The top ten 1926 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
*[[film]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;"
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|+ Highest-grossing films of 1926
|-
! Rank !! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''1'''
|''[[What Price Glory? (1926 film)|What Price Glory?]]''
|[[Fox Film]]
| $2,000,000<ref name="quig">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/international193738quig#page/942/mode/2up|publisher=[[Quigley Publishing Company]]|title=The All Time Best Sellers|work=[[International Motion Picture Almanac]] 1937–38 |page=942|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''2'''
|''[[The Black Pirate]]''
| [[United Artists]]
| $1,700,000<ref name=GeneralBook>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Krämer|title=The General|date=2019|isbn=978-1-8387-1889-3|quote=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.}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''3'''
|''[[Beau Geste (1926 film)|Beau Geste]]''
| [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]
| $1,500,000<ref name="quig">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/international193738quig#page/942/mode/2up|publisher=[[Quigley Publishing Company]]|title=The All Time Best Sellers|work=[[International Motion Picture Almanac]] 1937–38 |page=942|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''4'''
|''[[The Volga Boatman (1926 film)|The Volga Boatman]]''
|[[Producers Distributing Corporation]]
| $1,275,375<ref name="Birchard210">{{cite book |last=Birchard |first=Robert S. |title=Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |date=2004 |isbn=978-0-8131-2636-4 |page=210}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''5'''
|''[[Don Juan (1926 film)|Don Juan]]''
| [[Warner Bros.]]
| $1,258,000<ref name="wb">{{cite journal|first=H Mark |last=Glancy |title=Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |volume=15 |year=1995}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''6'''
|''[[Tell It to the Marines (1926 film)|Tell It to the Marines]]''
| [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]]
| $1,250,000<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation|title=The Eddie Mannix Ledger|publisher=Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study|place=Los Angeles, California}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''7'''
|''[[Sparrows (1926 film)|Sparrows]]''
| United Artists
| $966,878<ref name=PickfordBook>{{cite book|first=Scott|last=Eyman|title= Mary Pickford, America's Sweetheart|date=1990|isbn=1-55611-147-9|quote= As one of Mary’s most unexpected films and her only Gothic melodrama. Sparrows might have proved too strong for audiences; although it did well, it did somewhat less so than Little Annie Booneij. Produced at a cost of $463,455, its domestic gross was $966,878. Factoring in distribution and advertising costs, Mary realized a clear profit of nearly $200,000 without even considering the money derived from the film’s foreign release.}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"|'''8'''
|''[[The Better 'Ole (1926 film)|The Better 'Ole]]''
| Warner Bros.
| $955,000<ref name="wb"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''9'''
|''[[The Son of the Sheik]]''
| United Artists
| $820,000<ref name="Ultimate">[https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/box-office-grosses-1925-through-1931/ Movie Box Office Grosses: 1925 through 1931]</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"|'''10'''
|''[[The Sea Beast (1926 film)|The Sea Beast]]''
| Warner Bros.
| $814,000<ref name="wb"/>
|}


==Events==
==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]] - [[Warner Brothers]] debuts the first [[Vitaphone]] film, ''[[Don Juan]]''. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33&#8531; rpm [[gramophone record|disc records]] developed by [[Bell Telephone Laboratories]] and [[Western Electric]] to play back audio synchronized with film.
*August 5 – [[Warner Brothers]] debuts the first [[Vitaphone]] film, ''[[Don Juan (1926 film)|Don Juan]]''. The Vitaphone system uses multiple {{frac|33|1|3}} rpm [[gramophone record]]s developed by [[Bell Labs|Bell Telephone Laboratories]] and [[Western Electric]] to play back music and sound effects synchronized with film.
*[[Theodore W. Case]] and [[E. I. Sponable]] demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to [[Wilhelm Fried|William Fox]] of the [[Fox Film Corporation]]. The Fox-Case Corp. was formed in an effort to exploit the system, which was given the name [[Movietone]]. Fox began to create [[Movietone News]] newsreels at this time. One of the first newsreels was [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s takeoff for [[Paris]].
*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 (1926 film)|The Better 'Ole]]'', starring [[Sydney Chaplin]].
*December 5 – The 1925 Soviet film [[Battleship Potemkin]] premieres in the United States, at the [[Samuel J. Friedman Theatre|Biltmore Theatre]] in Manhattan.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/kinohistoryofrus00jayl#page/205/mode/2up/ |publisher=George Allen & Unwin |author=Jay Leyda |title=Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film |year=1960 |pages=205 |author-link=Jay Leyda}}</ref>
*[[Theodore W. Case]] and E. I. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to [[William Fox (producer)|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 sound system|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.


==Top grossing films==
==Notable films released in 1926==
For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see [[American films of 1926|United States films of 1926]]
# ''Aloma of the South Seas''
# ''What Price Glory''


==Films released==
===0-9===
*''[[3 Bad Men]]'', directed by [[John Ford]], starring [[George O'Brien (actor)|George O'Brien]]
Films released in 1926 include:
*''[[Aloma of the South Seas]]'', starring [[Gilda Gray]].
*''[[Battling Butler]]'', a [[Buster Keaton]] film.
*''[[The Black Pirate]]'', starring [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]].
*''[[Faust]]'', directed by [[F.W. Murnau]].
*''[[Flesh and the Devil]]'', starring [[John Gilbert]] and [[Greta Garbo]].
*''[[Hunting Tower]]'', by [[George Pearson]] ([[John Buchan]] novel)
*''[[Madame Mystery]]'', starring [[Theda Bara]].
*''[[Mare Nostrum (film)|Mare Nostrum]]'', directed by [[Rex Ingram]]
*''[[Scarlet Letter]]'', starring [[Lillian Gish]].
*''[[The Son of the Sheik]]'', starring [[Rudolph Valentino]].
*''[[Sparrows]]'', starring [[Mary Pickford]].
*''[[What Price Glory]]'', starring [[Edmund Lowe]], [[Victor McLaglen]] and [[Dolores del Rio]].


===A===
==Short film series==
*''[[The Adventures of Prince Achmed]]'', directed by [[Lotte Reiniger]] – ([[List of German films 1919–1933|Germany]])
*''[[Our Gang]]'' ([[1922 in film|1922]]-[[1944 in film|1944]])
*''[[Aloma of the South Seas (1926 film)|Aloma of the South Seas]]'' (lost), directed by [[Maurice Tourneur]], starring [[Gilda Gray]], [[Warner Baxter]] and [[William Powell]]
*''[[Laurel and Hardy]]'' (1926-[[1940 in film|1940]])
*''[[Ang Tatlong Hambog]] (The Three Humbugs)'', directed by [[José Nepomuceno]], starring [[Elizabeth Cooper|Dimples Cooper]] – ([[List of Philippine films before 1940|Philippines]])

===B===
*''[[Bardelys the Magnificent]]'', directed by [[King Vidor]], starring [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]] and [[Eleanor Boardman]]
*''[[The Bat (1926 film)|The Bat]]'', directed by [[Roland West]], based on the 1920 [[The Bat (play)|play]] by [[Mary Roberts Rinehart]] and [[Avery Hopwood]]<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 296">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 296. {{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}.</ref>
*''[[Battling Butler]]'', a [[Buster Keaton]] film
*''[[Beau Geste (1926 film)|Beau Geste]]'', directed by [[Herbert Brenon]], starring [[Ronald Colman]]
*''[[The Bells (1926 film)|The Bells]]'', directed by [[James Young (director)|James Young]], starring [[Lionel Barrymore]] and [[Boris Karloff]]
*''[[The Better 'Ole (1926 film)|The Better 'Ole]]'', directed by [[Charles Reisner]], starring [[Sydney Chaplin|Syd Chaplin]]
*''[[Beverly of Graustark]]'', directed by [[Sidney Franklin (director)|Sidney Franklin]], starring [[Marion Davies]] and [[Antonio Moreno]]
*''[[The Black Pirate]]'', directed by [[Albert Parker (director)|Albert Parker]], starring [[Douglas Fairbanks]] and [[Billie Dove]]
*''[[La Bohème (1926 film)|La Bohème]]'', directed by [[King Vidor]], starring [[Lillian Gish]], [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]] and [[Renée Adorée]]
*''[[Bride of Glomdal]] (Glomdalsbruden)'', directed by [[Carl Theodor Dreyer]] – ([[Danish films of the 1920s|Denmark]])
*''[[Brown of Harvard (1926 film)|Brown of Harvard]]'', directed by [[Jack Conway (filmmaker)|Jack Conway]], starring [[William Haines]], [[Jack Pickford]] and [[Mary Brian]]
*''[[Brudeferden i Hardanger]] (The Bridal Procession in Hardanger)'', directed by [[Rasmus Breistein]] – ([[Norwegian films before 1930|Norway]])

===C===
*''[[Cab No. 13]] (Einspanner Nr 13)'', directed by [[Michael Curtiz]] – ([[List of German films 1919–1933|Germany]])
*''[[Cruise of the Jasper B]]'', directed by [[James W. Horne]], starring [[Rod La Rocque]] and [[Mildred Harris]]

===D===
*''[[Dangerous Traffic]]'', directed by [[Bennett Cohen]], starring [[Ralph Bushman]] and [[Mildred Harris]]
*''[[The Devil's Circus]]'', directed by [[Benjamin Christensen]], starring [[Norma Shearer]]
*''[[The Devil's Wheel]] (Chyortovo koleso)'', directed by [[Grigori Kozintsev]] and [[Leonid Trauberg]] – ([[Soviet films of 1926|U.S.S.R.]])
*''[[Don Juan (1926 film)|Don Juan]]'', directed by [[Alan Crosland]], starring [[John Barrymore]]

===F===
*''[[Falešná kočička aneb Když si žena umíní]] (Fake Woman, or When He is a She)'', directed by [[Svatopluk Innemann]] – ([[List of Czech films of the 1920s|Czechoslovakia]])
*''[[Faust (1926 film)|Faust]]'', directed by [[F. W. Murnau]], starring [[Gösta Ekman (senior)|Gösta Ekman]] and [[Emil Jannings]] – ([[List of German films 1919–1933|Germany]])
*''[[Fool's Luck]]'', directed by William Goodrich ([[Roscoe Arbuckle|Roscoe "Fatty" Arbukle]]), starring [[Lupino Lane]]
*''[[For Heaven's Sake (1926 film)|For Heaven's Sake]]'', directed by [[Sam Taylor (director)|Sam Taylor]], starring [[Harold Lloyd]] and [[Jobyna Ralston]]

===G===
*''[[The General (1926 film)|The General]]'', directed by [[Clyde Bruckman]] and Buster Keaton, starring [[Buster Keaton]]
*''[[The Golden Butterfly]] (Der goldene Schmetterling)'', directed by [[Michael Curtiz]], starring [[Lili Damita]] – ([[List of German films 1919–1933|Germany]])
*''[[The Great Gatsby (1926 film)|The Great Gatsby]]'' (lost), directed by [[Herbert Brenon]], starring [[Warner Baxter]], [[Lois Wilson (actress)|Lois Wilson]] and [[William Powell]]
*''[[The Great K & A Train Robbery]]'', directed by [[Lewis Seiler]], starring [[Tom Mix]]

===H===
*''[[Hands Up! (1926 film)|Hands Up!]]'', directed by [[Clarence G. Badger]], starring [[Raymond Griffith]]
*''[[The Holy Mountain (1926 film)|The Holy Mountain]] (Der heilige Berg)'', directed by [[Arnold Fanck]], starring [[Leni Riefenstahl]] – ([[List of German films 1919–1933|Germany]])

===I===
*''[[Irene (1926 film)|Irene]]'', directed by [[Alfred E. Green]], starring [[Colleen Moore]]
*''[[It Must Be Love (1926 film)|It Must Be Love]]'' (lost), directed by [[Alfred E. Green]], starring [[Colleen Moore]]

===J===
*''[[The Johnstown Flood (1926 film)|The Johnstown Flood]]'', directed by [[Irving Cummings]], starring [[George O'Brien (actor)|George O'Brien]] and [[Janet Gaynor]]

===K===
*''[[Kid Boots (film)|Kid Boots]]'', directed by [[Frank Tuttle]], starring [[Eddie Cantor]] and [[Clara Bow]]

===L===
*''[[The Last Days of Pompeii (1926 film)|The Last Days of Pompeii]] (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei)'', directed by [[Carmine Gallone]] and [[Amleto Palermi]] – ([[List of Italian films of 1926|Italy]])
*''[[Loetoeng Kasaroeng]]'' (lost), directed by L. Heuveldorp – ([[List of films of the Dutch East Indies|Dutch East Indies]])
*''[[Love's Berries]] (Yagodka lyubvi)'', directed by [[Alexander Dovzhenko]] – ([[Soviet films of 1926|U.S.S.R.]])

===M===
*''[[Madame Mystery]]'', directed by [[Richard Wallace (director)|Richard Wallace]] and [[Stan Laurel]], starring [[Theda Bara]] and [[Oliver Hardy]]
*''[[The Magician (1926 film)|The Magician]]'', directed by [[Rex Ingram (director)|Rex Ingram]], starring [[Alice Terry]] and [[Paul Wegener]]
*''[[Manon Lescaut (1926 film)|Manon Lescaut]]'', directed by [[Arthur Robison]], starring [[Lya De Putti]] – ([[List of German films 1919–1933|Germany]])
*''[[Mare Nostrum (1926 film)|Mare Nostrum]]'', directed by [[Rex Ingram (director)|Rex Ingram]], starring [[Alice Terry]] and [[Antonio Moreno]]
*''[[Ménilmontant (1926 film)|Ménilmontant]]'', directed by [[Dimitri Kirsanoff]] – ([[List of French films of 1926|France]])
*''[[Michel Strogoff (1926 film)|Michel Strogoff]]'', directed by [[Viktor Tourjansky]], starring [[Ivan Mozzhukhin]] - ([[List of French films of 1926|France]])
*''[[Midnight Faces]]'', directed by [[Bennett Cohen]], starring [[Francis X. Bushman Jr.]]<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 302">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 302. {{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}.</ref>
*''[[Miss Mend]]'', directed by [[Boris Barnet]] and [[Fedor Ozep]] – ([[Soviet films of 1926|U.S.S.R.]])
*''[[Mother (1926 film)|Mother]] (Mat)'', directed by [[Vsevolod Pudovkin]] – ([[Soviet films of 1926|U.S.S.R.]])
*''[[My Stars]]'', directed by William Goodrich ([[Roscoe Arbuckle|Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle]])

===N===
*''[[Nana (1926 film)|Nana]]'', directed by [[Jean Renoir]] – ([[List of French films of 1926|France]])
*''[[Nell Gwyn (1926 film)|Nell Gwyn]]'', directed by [[Herbert Wilcox]], starring [[Dorothy Gish]] – ([[British films of 1926|GB]])
*''[[Nelson (1926 film)|Nelson]]'', directed by [[Walter Summers]], starring [[Cedric Hardwicke]] – ([[British films of 1926|GB]])
*''[[The Non-Stop Flight]]'', directed by [[Emory Johnson]]

===O===
*''[[Old Ironsides (film)|Old Ironsides]]'', directed by [[James Cruze]], starring [[Charles Farrell]], [[Esther Ralston]], [[Wallace Beery]] and [[George Bancroft (actor)|George Bancroft]]
*''[[Orphan of Lowood]] (Die Waise von Lowood)'', directed by [[Curtis Bernhardt]], based on the 1847 novel ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' by [[Charlotte Brontë]] – ([[List of German films of 1919–1932|Germany]])
*''[[The Overcoat (1926 film)|The Overcoat]] (Shinel)'', directed by [[Grigori Kozintsev]] and [[Leonid Trauberg]] – ([[Soviet films of 1926|U.S.S.R.]])

===P===
*''[[A Page of Madness]] (Kurutta Ichipeiji)'', directed by [[Teinosuke Kinugasa]] – ([[Japanese films of the 1920s|Japan]])

===Q===
*''[[The Quarterback (1926 film)|The Quarterback]]'', directed by [[Fred C. Newmeyer]], starring [[Richard Dix]] and [[Esther Ralston]]

===R===
*''[[Rien que les heures]] (Nothing but Time)'', directed by [[Alberto Cavalcanti]] – ([[List of French films of 1926|France]])

===S===
*''Scared Stiff'', directed by [[James W. Horne]]<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 303">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 303. {{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}.</ref>
*''[[The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)|The Scarlet Letter]]'', directed by [[Victor Sjöström]], starring [[Lillian Gish]] and [[Lars Hanson]]
*''[[The Sea Beast (1926 film)|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]] – ([[List of German films 1919-1933|Germany]])
*''[[Shivering Spooks]]'', directed by [[Robert F. McGowan]], an [[Our Gang]] short<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 305. {{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}.</ref>
*''[[The Show-Off (1926 film)|The Show-Off]]'', directed by [[Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker)|Mal St. Clair]], starring [[Lois Wilson (actress)|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 (1926 film)|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 (film)|The Sorrows of Satan]]'', directed by [[D. W. Griffith]], starring [[Adolphe Menjou]] and [[Ricardo Cortez]], based on the 1895 [[The Sorrows of Satan|novel]] by [[Marie Corelli]]
*''[[Sparrows (1926 film)|Sparrows]]'', directed by [[William Beaudine]], starring [[Mary Pickford]]
*''[[The Strong Man]]'', directed by [[Frank Capra]], starring [[Harry Langdon]]
*''[[The Student of Prague (1926 film)|The Student of Prague]] (Der Student von Prag)'', directed by [[Henrik Galeen]], starring [[Conrad Veidt]] and [[Werner Krauss]] – ([[List of German films 1919-1933|Germany]])
*''Sweeney Todd'', directed by [[George Dewhurst (director)|George Dewhurst]], based on the 1847 stage play ''The String of Pearls, or The Fiend of Fleet Street'' by [[George Dibdin-Pitt]]<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 307. {{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}.</ref> – ([[British films of 1926|GB]])

===T===
*''[[Tartuffe (1926 film)|Tartuffe]] (Herr Tartüff)'', directed by [[F. W. Murnau]], starring [[Emil Jannings]] – ([[List of German films 1919–1933|Germany]])
*''[[Tell It to the Marines (1926 film)|Tell It to the Marines]]'', directed by [[George Hill (director)|George W. Hill]], starring [[Lon Chaney]], [[Eleanor Boardman]] and [[William Haines]]
*''[[The Temptress (1926 film)|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]] – ([[Soviet films of 1926|U.S.S.R.]])
*''[[Torrent (1926 film)|Torrent]]'', directed by [[Monta Bell]], starring [[Ricardo Cortez]] and [[Greta Garbo]]
*''[[Tramp, Tramp, Tramp]]'', directed by [[Harry Edwards (director)|Harry Edwards]], starring [[Harry Langdon]] and [[Joan Crawford]]
*''[[A Trip to Chinatown (film)|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]] – ([[British films of 1926|GB]])

===U===
*''[[Unknown Treasures]]'' (lost), directed by [[Archie Mayo]], based on the short story ''The House Behind the Hedge'' by Mary Spain Vigus

===V===
*''[[The Volga Boatman (1926 film)|The Volga Boatman]]'', directed by [[Cecil B. DeMille]], starring [[William Boyd (actor)|William Boyd]]

===W===
*''[[What Price Glory? (1926 film)|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]]<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 308. {{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}.</ref>
*''[[Whispering Wires]]'', directed by [[Albert Ray]], based on the novel by Henry Leverage<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 309. {{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}.</ref>
*''[[The Winning of Barbara Worth]]'', directed by [[Henry King (director)|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===
*''[[Young April]]'', directed by [[Donald Crisp]], starring [[Joseph Schildkraut]] and [[Bessie Love]]

==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==
==Births==
*[[January 5]] - [[Maria Schell]], actress
*January 1 – [[Zena Marshall]], British actress (died 2009)
*[[January 14]] - [[Tom Tryon]], actor, novelist (+ [[1991 in film|1991]])
*January 6 – [[Mickey Hargitay]], Hungarian-American actor and 1955 Mr. Universe (died 2006)
*[[January 17]] - [[Moira Shearer]], actress, dancer
*January 14 – [[Tom Tryon]], American actor and novelist (died 1991)
*[[January 19]] - [[Fritz Weaver]], actor
*January 15 – [[Maria Schell]], Austrian-Swiss actress (died 2005)
*[[January 20]] - [[Patricia Neal]], actress
*January 17 – [[Moira Shearer]], Scottish actress and dancer (died 2006)
*January 18 – [[Salah Zulfikar]], Egyptian actor and producer (died 1993)
*[[February 16]] - [[John Schlesinger]], director
*January 19 – [[Fritz Weaver]], American actor (died 2016)
*[[March 6]] - [[Andrzej Wajda]], director
*January 20 – [[Patricia Neal]], American actress (died 2010)
*[[March 16]] - [[Jerry Lewis]], actor
*[[May 8]] - [[Don Rickles]], comedian and actor
*January 25 – [[Ted White (stuntman)|Ted White]], American stuntman and actor (died 2022)
*[[June 1]] - [[Andy Griffith]], actor
*January 30 – [[Ramesh Deo]], Indian actor (died [[2022 in film|2022]])
*[[June 1]] - [[Marilyn Monroe]], actress
*February 1 – [[Nancy Gates]], American actress (died [[2019 in film|2019]])
*February 2 – [[Lia Laats]], Estonian actress (died 2004)
*[[June 28]] - [[Mel Brooks]], entertainer
*[[July 14]] - [[Harry Dean Stanton]], actor
*February 5 - [[Stefan Gierasch]], American actor (died 2014)
*February 11 – [[Leslie Nielsen]], Canadian actor and comedian (died 2010)
*[[July 21]] - [[Norman Jewison]], director
*February 16
*[[October 17]] - [[Beverly Garland]], actress
*[[October 18]] - [[Klaus Kinski]], actor
**[[John Schlesinger]], British director and actor (died 2003)
*[[November 30]] - [[Richard Crenna]], actor
**[[David Frankham]], British actor
*February 20 – [[Gillian Lynne]], British dancer, actress and choreographer (died [[2018 in film|2018]])
*February 23 – [[Dorothy Steel (actress)|Dorothy Steel]], American actress (died [[2021 in film|2021]])
*February 26 - [[Doris Belack]], American character actress (died [[2011 in film|2011]])
*March 1 – [[Robert Clary]], French-American actor and singer (died [[2022 in film|2022]])
*March 5 – [[Joan Shawlee]], American actress (died 1987)
*March 6 – [[Andrzej Wajda]], director (died 2016)
*March 13
** [[Lenny Montana]], American actor (died 1992)
** [[Arthur Racanelli]], American actor (died 2024)
*March 16 – [[Jerry Lewis]], American actor (died [[2017 in film|2017]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kehr |first1=Dave |title=Jerry Lewis, a Jester Both Silly and Stormy, Dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/movies/jerry-lewis-dead-celebrated-comedian-and-filmmaker.html |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=20 August 2017 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
*March 18 – [[Peter Graves]], American actor (died [[2010 in film|2010]])
*March 21 – [[André Delvaux]], Belgian director (died [[2002 in film|2002]])
*March 25 – [[Gene Shalit]], American film critic
*March 30 – [[Peter Marshall (entertainer)|Peter Marshall]], American game show host, television and radio personality, singer and actor (died [[2024 in film|2024]])
*April 5 – [[Roger Corman]], American director (died [[2024 in film|2024]])
*April 7
** [[Prem Nazir]], Indian actor (died 1989)
** [[Gloria Warren]], American actress (died 2021)
*April 8
**[[Shecky Greene]], American comedian (died [[2023 in film|2023]])
**[[Shirley Mills]], American actress (died [[2010 in film|2010]])
*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 3 - [[Ann B. Davis]], American actress (died 2014)
*May 4
**[[Enzo Garinei]], Italian actor (died 2022)
**[[Christine White (actress)|Christine White]], American actress (died 2013)
*May 5 – [[Bing Russell]], American actor, minor-league baseball club owner (died [[2003 in film|2003]])
*May 7 – [[Val Bisoglio]], American character actor (died 2021)
*May 8
**[[David Attenborough]], English broadcaster
**[[David Hurst]], German actor (died 2019)
**[[Don Rickles]], American comedian and actor (died 2017)
*May 10
**[[Tichi Wilkerson Kassel]], American film personality, publisher of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' (died [[2004 in film|2004]])
**[[Vladimir Tatosov]], Russian actor (died 2021)
*May 11
**[[Yvonne Furneaux]], French actress (died 2024)
**[[Frank Thring]], Australian actor (died 1994)
*May 12 – [[Marilyn Knowlden]], American former child actress
*May 17 - [[María Duval (Argentine actress)|Maria Duval]], Argentine actress (died 2022)
*May 19 - [[Michelle Marquais]], French actress (died 2022)
*May 24 - [[Stanley Baxter]], Scottish actor and comedian
*May 25 – [[Claude Akins]], American actor (died 1994)
*May 30 – [[Nina Agapova]], Russian actress (died 2021)
*June 1
**[[Andy Griffith]], American actor (died 2012)
**[[Marilyn Monroe]], American actress (died 1962)<ref>{{cite web |title=Marilyn Monroe {{!}} Biography, Movies, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marilyn-Monroe |website=Encyclopaedia Britannica |access-date=13 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
**[[Aubrey Morris]], British actor (died 2015)
*June 5 – [[Lu Leonard]], American actress (died 2004)
*June 9
** [[Mona Freeman]], American actress, painter (died [[2014 in film|2014]])
** [[Georgia Holt]], American actress, model (died 2022)
*June 10
**[[June Haver]], American actress, singer, dancer (died [[2005 in film|2005]])
**[[Lionel Jeffries]], English actor, director and screenwriter (died 2010)
*June 13 – [[Paul Lynde]], American comedian and actor (died 1982)
*June 15 - [[Jesús Guzmán (actor)|Jesús Guzmán]], Spanish actor (died [[2023 in film|2023]])
*June 17 - [[Elio Pandolfi]], Italian actor, radio personality and voice actor (died 2021)
*June 28 – [[Mel Brooks]], American actor, comedian and filmmaker
*June 29 - [[Denys Graham]], Welsh actor (died 2024)
*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 19 - [[Helen Gallagher]], American actress (died 2024)
*July 20 – [[Diane Hart]], English actress, inventor (died [[2002 in film|2002]])
*July 21 – [[Norman Jewison]], Canadian director (died [[2024 in film|2024]])
*July 22 – [[Bryan Forbes]], English director (died 2013)
*July 23 - [[Rae Allen]], American actress, director and singer (died 2022)
*August 3 – [[Rona Anderson]], Scottish actress (died 2013)
*August 7 – [[Stan Freberg]], American voice actor, author, radio personality and comedian (died 2015)
*August 11 - [[Charles Cooper (actor)|Charles Cooper]], American actor (died 2013)
*August 14 - [[Margot Benacerraf]], Venezuelan film director (died 2024)
*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 in film|1991]])
*September 26 - [[Julie London]], American singer, actress (died [[2000 in film|2000]])
*September 28 - [[Ralph Ahn]], American actor (died 2022)
*October 15
**[[Jeffrey Hayden]], American director and producer (died 2016)
**[[Jean Peters]], American actress (died [[2000 in film|2000]])
*October 17
**[[Julie Adams]], American actress (died [[2019 in film|2019]])
**[[Beverly Garland]], American actress (died 2008)
*October 18 – [[Klaus Kinski]], German actor (died 1991)
*October 25 – [[Biff McGuire]], American actor (died 2021)
*November 1 – [[Betsy Palmer]], American actress (died [[2015 in film|2015]])
*November 13 - [[Don Gordon (actor)|Don Gordon]], American actor (died [[2017 in film|2017]])
*November 17 - [[Robert Brown (American actor)|Robert Brown]], American actor (died 2022)
*November 25
**[[Harry Landis]], British actor and director (died 2022)
**[[Jeffrey Hunter]], American actor (died 1969)
**[[Terry Kilburn]], English-American actor
*November 26 - [[Ed Williams (actor)|Ed Williams]], American actor
*November 30 – [[Richard Crenna]], American actor (died 2003)
*December 1
**[[Allyn Ann McLerie]], American actress (died 2018)
**[[Robert Symonds]], American actor (died 2007)
*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 in film|2012]])


==Deaths==
==Deaths==
*[[January 30]] - [[Barbara La Marr]], actress
*January 30 – [[Barbara La Marr]], actress (born 1896)
*February 6 – [[Carrie Clark Ward]], actress (born 1862)
*[[August 23]] - [[Rudolph Valentino]], actor
*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<ref>[http://imdb.com/name/nm0043018/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Charles Avery;IMDb.com]</ref>
*August 22 – Joe Moore, actor, brother of Mary Moore, Matt Moore, [[Owen Moore]] & [[Tom Moore (actor)|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 (actor)|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==
*[[Richard Alexander (actor)|Richard Alexander]] – ''[[Brown of Harvard (1926 film)|Brown of Harvard]]''
*[[Margaret Bert]] – ''[[The Blackbird]]''
*[[Frank Darien]] – ''[[Old Ironsides (film)|Old Ironsides]]''
*[[Josephine Dunn]] – ''[[Fascinating Youth]]''
*[[Jean Fenwick]] – ''Fascinating Youth''
*[[Dwight Frye]] – ''[[Exit Smiling]]''
*[[Doris Hill]] – ''[[Tom and His Pals]]''
*[[Marcia Mae Jones]] – ''[[Mannequin (1926 film)|Mannequin]]''
*[[Nancy Kelly]] – ''[[The Untamed Lady]]''
*[[Elissa Landi]] – ''[[London (1926 film)|London]]''
*[[Barton MacLane]] – ''[[The Quarterback (1926 film)|The Quarterback]]''
*[[John Merton]] – ''The Quarterback''
*[[Nell O'Day]] – ''[[Twinkletoes]]''
*[[Kathleen O'Malley]] – ''[[My Old Dutch (1926 film)|My Old Dutch]]''
*[[Franklin Pangborn]] – ''Exit Smiling''
*[[Jack Pennick]] – ''[[The Blue Eagle]]''
*[[Nina Quartero]] – ''[[The Sorrows of Satan (1926 film)|The Sorrows of Satan]]''
*[[Buddy Rogers (actor)|Buddy Rogers]] – ''Fascinating Youth''
*[[Sylvia Sidney]] – ''The Sorrows of Satan''
*[[Charles Starrett]] – ''The Quarterback''
*[[Thelma Todd]] – ''Fascinating Youth''
*[[John Wayne]] – ''Brown of Harvard''

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,short&release_date=1926-01-01,1926-12-31&adult=include&sort=num_votes,desc List of 1926 films] at [[IMDb]]
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=1926-01-01,1926-12-31&adult=include List of 1926 deaths] at [[IMDb]]
* [https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1926-01-01,1926-12-31&adult=include List of 1926 births] at [[IMDb]]


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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.)

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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 Sparrows United Artists $966,878[6]
8 The Better 'Ole Warner Bros. $955,000[4]
9 The Son of the Sheik United Artists $820,000[7]
10 The Sea Beast Warner Bros. $814,000[4]

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Notable films released in 1926

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  • 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)

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References

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  1. ^ a b "The All Time Best Sellers". International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38. Quigley Publishing Company. p. 942. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-8131-2636-4.
  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.
  5. ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study
  6. ^ Eyman, Scott (1990). Mary Pickford, America's Sweetheart. ISBN 1-55611-147-9. As one of Mary's most unexpected films and her only Gothic melodrama. Sparrows might have proved too strong for audiences; although it did well, it did somewhat less so than Little Annie Booneij. Produced at a cost of $463,455, its domestic gross was $966,878. Factoring in distribution and advertising costs, Mary realized a clear profit of nearly $200,000 without even considering the money derived from the film's foreign release.
  7. ^ Movie Box Office Grosses: 1925 through 1931
  8. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 205.
  9. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  10. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 302. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  11. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 303. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  12. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  13. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 307. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  14. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  15. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  16. ^ Kehr, Dave (20 August 2017). "Jerry Lewis, a Jester Both Silly and Stormy, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  17. ^ "Marilyn Monroe | Biography, Movies, & Facts". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  18. ^ Charles Avery;IMDb.com
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