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1926_in_film
1926_in_film
1926 in film
Events
August -
Warner Brothers
debuts the first
Vitaphone
film,
Don Juan
. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33⅓ 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
.
Al Jolson
films
A Plantation Act
one of the first unreleased talkies and a test film for
The Jazz Singer
The oldest surviving animated feature film is released in the
Weimar Republic
, directed by
Lotte Reiniger
. It is called
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
.
Top grossing films
Aloma of the South Seas
What Price Glory?
The Great K and A Train Robbery
Beau Geste (1926 film)
Flesh and the Devil
Sparrows
For Heaven's Sake
My Yankee Senor
Don Juan
The Sea Beast
La Boheme
The Temptress
Torrent
Films released in 1926
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
, directed by
Lotte Reiniger
.
Aloma of the South Seas
, starring
Gilda Gray
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
La Bohème
, directed by
King Vidor
, starring
Lillian Gish
,
John Gilbert
and
Renée Adorée
The Black Pirate
, directed by
Albert Parker
, starring
Douglas Fairbanks
and
Billie Dove
Brown of Harvard
starring
William Haines
,
Jack Pickford
and
Mary Brian
Cruise of the Jasper B
, starring
Rod La Rocque
,
Mildred Harris
and
Snitz Edwards
Don Juan
, directed by
Alan Crosland
, starring
John Barrymore
''
Faust
, directed by
F.W. Murnau
, starring
Gösta Ekman
and
Emil Jannings
Flesh and the Devil
, starring
John Gilbert
and
Greta Garbo
.
For Heaven's Sake
, directed by
Sam Taylor
, starring
Harold Lloyd
and
Jobyna Ralston
Fool's Luck
, directed by
Fatty Arbukle
, starring
Lupino Lane
and
George Davis
The Great K and A Train Robbery
, starring
Tom Mix
Madame Mystery
, directed by
Richard Wallace
and
Stan Laurel
, starring
Theda Bara
.
Mare Nostrum
, directed by
Rex Ingram
, starring
Antonio Moreno
and
Alice Terry
Mother
, directed by
Vsevolod Pudovkin
My Yankee Senor
, starring
Tom Mix
The Scarlet Letter
, starring
Lillian Gish
and
Lars Hanson
The Sea Beast
, starring
John Barrymore
,
Dolores Costello
and
George O'Hara
The Son of the Sheik
, starring
Rudolph Valentino
and
Vilma Bánky
Sparrows
, directed by
William Beaudine
, starring
Mary Pickford
Storm of Passion
(
Aiyoku no arashi
)
The Student of Prague
, starring
Fritz Alberti
,
Agnes Esterhazy
,
Conrad Veidt
and
Werner Krauss
The Temptress
, starring
Greta Garbo
and
Antonio Moreno
.
Torrent
, starring
Ricardo Cortez
and Greta Garbo
What Price Glory?
, starring
Edmund Lowe
,
Victor McLaglen
and
Dolores del Rio
Short film series
Buster Keaton
(1917–1941)
Our Gang
(1922-1944)
Laurel and Hardy
(1921-1943)
Animated short film series
Felix the Cat
(1919-1930)
Koko the Clown
(1919-1934)
Alice Comedies
(1923-1927)
Koko's Song Car Tunes
(1924-1927)
Krazy Kat
(1925-1940)
Un-Natural History
(1925-1927)
Pete the Pup
(
1926
-1927)
Births
January 5
-
Maria Schell
, actress(d.2005)
January 14
-
Tom Tryon
, actor, novelist († 1991)
January 17
-
Moira Shearer
, actress, dancer (d. 2006)
January 19
-
Fritz Weaver
, actor
January 20
-
Patricia Neal
, actress
February 11
-
Leslie Nielsen
, actor, comedian
February 16
-
John Schlesinger
, director († 2003)
March 6
-
Andrzej Wajda
, director
March 16
-
Jerry Lewis
, actor
May 8
-
Don Rickles
, comedian and actor
June 1
-
Andy Griffith
, actor
June 1
-
Marilyn Monroe
, actress († 1962)
June 28
-
Mel Brooks
, entertainer
July 14
-
Harry Dean Stanton
, actor
July 21
-
Norman Jewison
, director
October 17
-
Beverly Garland
, actress
October 18
-
Klaus Kinski
, actor (d. 1991)
November 30
-
Richard Crenna
, actor (d. 2003)
Deaths
January 30
-
Barbara La Marr
, actress
February 6
-
Carrie Clark Ward
, actor
April 20
-
Billy Quirk
, actor
July 22
-
Willard Louis
, actor
August 23
-
Rudolph Valentino
, actor
September 11
-
Matsunosuke Onoe
, actor
November 1
-
Lester Cuneo
, actor
November 2
-
James K Hackett
, stage & silent film actor
November 7
-
Tom Forman
, silent film actor & director
Film debuts
John Wayne
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