1926 in film
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Events
- August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33 1/3 rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film.
- 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. 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.
Top Grossing Films of the Year
- Aloma of the South Seas
- What Price Glory
Films Released
Films released in 1926 include:
Births
- January 5 - Maria Schell, actress
- January 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist (+ 1991)
- January 14 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress
- January 17 - Moira Shearer, actress, dancer
- January 19 - Fritz Weaver, actor
- January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress
- May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and actor
- June 1 - Andy Griffith, actor
- June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, actress
- June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer