Overview of the events of 1922 in film
This is an overview of1922 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
[ edit ] The top ten films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1922 Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals 1 Robin Hood United Artists $2,101,044[ 1] 2 Blood and Sand Paramount $1,250,000[ 2] 3 Manslaughter $1,206,014[ 3] 4 Grandma's Boy Pathé Exchange $1,100,000[ 2] 5 Smilin' Through First National $1,000,000[ 2] 6 Saturday Night Paramount $753,807[ 3] 7 Rags to Riches Warner Bros. $418,000[ 4] 8 Heroes of the Street $366,000[ 4] 9 The Beautiful and Damned $327,000[ 4] 10 Your Best Friend $132,000[ 4]
Notable films released in 1922 [ edit ] United States unless stated
The Bachelor Daddy Alfred E. Green , starringThomas Meighan The Beautiful and Damned William A. Seiter , starringMarie Prevost Beauty's Worth Robert G. Vignola , starringMarion Davies Beyond the Rocks Sam Wood , starringGloria Swanson andRudolph Valentino A Bill of Divorcement Denison Clift , starringConstance Binney andFay Compton – (GB )The Blacksmith Mal St. Clair and Buster Keaton, starringBuster Keaton A Blind Bargain Wallace Worsley , starringLon Chaney , based on the 1897 novelThe Octive of Claudius byBarry Pain [ 5] Blood and Sand Fred Niblo , starringRudolph Valentino ,Lila Lee andNita Naldi The Bohemian Girl Harley Knoles , StarringIvor Novello andGladys Cooper – (GB )The Bride's Play George Terwilliger , starringMarion Davies The Burning Soil (Der brennende Acker)F. W. Murnau – (Germany )A Dangerous Adventure Sam Warner andJack L. Warner , starringGrace Darmond Danse Macabre , directed byDudley Murphy [ 6] Day Dreams Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, StarringBuster Keaton andRenée Adorée A Debt of Honour Maurice Elvey , starringIsobel Elsom andClive Brook – (GB )The Dictator James Cruze , starringWallace Reid andLila Lee Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse the Gambler)Fritz Lang , starringRudolf Klein-Rogge , based on the 1921 novel byNorbert Jacques [ 7] Germany )Dr. Jack Fred C. Newmeyer , starringHarold Lloyd Don Juan et Faust , directed byMarcel L'Herbier , based on an 1828play byChristian Dietrich Grabbe [ 7] France )The Dungeon Oscar Micheaux [ 8] Fair Lady Kenneth Webb Faust , directed byChallis Sanderson , based on the 1808play byJohann Wolfgang von Goethe [ 10] GB )Faust , directed byGérard Bourgeois , based on the 1808play byJohann Wolfgang von Goethe [ 10] France )La Femme de nulle part (The Woman from Nowhere)Louis Delluc – (France )Flames of Passion Graham Cutts , starringMae Marsh andC. Aubrey Smith – (GB )Flesh and Blood Irving Cummings , starringLon Chaney andNoah Beery Sr. Foolish Wives Erich von Stroheim The Frozen North Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starringBuster Keaton The Man from Beyond Burton L. King , starringHarry Houdini Manslaughter Cecil B. DeMille , starringThomas Meighan andLois Wilson Marizza F. W. Murnau – (Germany )The Marriage Chance Hampton Del Ruth Money To Burn (lost), directed byRowland V. Lee [ 13] Moran of the Lady Letty George Melford , starringDorothy Dalton andRudolph Valentino More to Be Pitied Than Scorned Edward LeSaint Mud and Sand Gilbert Pratt , starringStan Laurel My Boy Victor Heerman andAlbert Austin , starringJackie Coogan My Wife's Relations Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starringBuster Keaton The Paleface Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starringBuster Keaton Pay Day Charles Chaplin shortPeg o' My Heart King Vidor , starringLaurette Taylor Phantom F. W. Murnau , starringAlfred Abel ,Lil Dagover andLya De Putti – (Germany )Polikushka (Поликушка)Alexander Sanin – (U.S.S.R. )The Primitive Lover Sidney Franklin , starringConstance Talmadge andHarrison Ford The Prisoner of Zenda Rex Ingram , starringLewis Stone andAlice Terry Saturday Night Cecil B. DeMille , starringLeatrice Joy andConrad Nagel The Scarlet Letter Challis Sanderson , starringSybil Thorndike – (GB )Shadows Tom Forman , starringLon Chaney ,Marguerite De La Motte andHarrison Ford Sherlock Holmes Albert Parker , starringJohn Barrymore , based on the 1899stage play byWilliam Gillette andArthur Conan Doyle – (GB )Smilin' Through Sidney Franklin , starringNorma Talmadge Sodom and Gomorrah Michael Curtiz , starringLucy Doraine – (Austria )La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet)Germaine Dulac – (France )Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep George Pearson , starringBetty Balfour – (GB )The Suram Fortress (Suramis tsikhe)Ivan Perestiani – (U.S.S.R. )Animated short film series [ edit ] Felix the Cat cartoon. January 2 –Jason Evers , American actor (died 2005) January 3 –Bill Travers , British actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist (died 1994) January 10 –Hannelore Schroth , German actress (died 1987) January 13 –Albert Lamorisse , French filmmaker, film producer and writer (died 1970) January 16 –Irene Vernon , American actress (died 1998) January 17 –Betty White , American actress and comedian (died 2021) January 19 –Guy Madison , American actor (died 1996) January 20 –Ray Anthony , American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor January 21 January 31 February 3 –Ulf Johanson , Swedish actor (died 1990) February 4 February 6 –Patrick Macnee , British-American actor (died 2015) February 7 –Hattie Jacques , English actress (died 1980) February 8 –Audrey Meadows , American actress (died 1996) February 9 –Kathryn Grayson , American actress and coloratura soprano (died 2010) February 24 –Steven Hill , American actor (died 2016) February 26 –Margaret Leighton , English actress (died 1976) March 5 March 8 –Cyd Charisse , American dancer and actress (died 2008) March 20 –Carl Reiner , American actor, author, comedian, director and screenwriter (died 2020) March 21 –Russ Meyer , American filmmaker (died 2004) March 23 –Ugo Tognazzi , Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1990) March 31 April 3 –Doris Day , American actress and singer (died 2019)[ 14] April 4 April 5 –Gale Storm , American actress and singer (died 2009) April 7 –Margia Dean , American beauty queen and actress (died 2023) April 15 –Michael Ansara , Syrian‐American actor (died 2013) April 18 –Barbara Hale , American actress (died 2017)[ 15] April 24 –J. D. Cannon , American actor (died 2005) April 26 –Mike Kellin , American actor (died 1983) April 27 –Jack Klugman , American actor (died 2012) May 2 –Roscoe Lee Browne , American actor and director (died 2007) May 7 May 10 –Nancy Walker , American actress (died 1992) May 12 -Murray Gershenz , American character actor and entrepreneur (died 2013) May 13 -Truus Dekker , Dutch actress (died 2022) May 14 May 17 -Wei Wei , Chinese actress (died 2023) May 18 -Bill Macy , American actor (died 2019) May 25 -Syd Heylen , Australian character actor and comedian (died1996 ) May 27 –Christopher Lee , English actor and singer (died 2015)[ 16] May 31 –Denholm Elliott , English actor (died 1992) June 1 June 9 –George Axelrod , American screenwriter and producer (died 2003) June 10Judy Garland , American actress and singer (died 1969)[ 17] Bill Kerr , British-Australian actor, comedian and vaudevillian (died 2014) June 16 –Frances Rafferty , American actress, dancer, World War II pin-up girl and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player (died 2004) June 22 –Mona Lisa , Filipino actress (died 2019) June 26 –Eleanor Parker , American actress (died 2013) June 28 -Erik Bauersfeld , American radio dramatist and voice actor (died 2016) July 6 –William Schallert , American character actor (died 2016) July 9 -Manos Zacharias , Greek film director, cinematographer and actor July 11 –Gene Evans , American actor (died 1998) July 19 -Bess Meisler , American actress July 21 –Demeter Bitenc , Slovenian actor (died 2018) July 23 -Sydney Lassick , American character actor (died 2003) July 26 July 27Adolfo Celi , Italian film actor and director (died 1986)Norman Lear , American screenwriter and producer (died 2023) August 1 August 8 –Rory Calhoun , American actor (died 1999) August 15 -Boris Sichkin , Soviet-American film actor, dancer, choreographer, composer and entertainer (died 2002) August 22 –Micheline Presle , French actress (died 2024) August 25 -Gloria Dea , American actress, dancer, artist, and magician (died 2023) September 1 September 6 –Elizabeth Lawrence , American actress (died 2000) September 8 September 10 –Barbara Chilcott , Canadian actress (died 2022) September 14 –Michel Auclair , European actor (died 1988) September 15 –Jackie Cooper , American actor and director (died 2011) September 16 September 23 –Louise Latham , American actress (died 2018) September 24Bert I. Gordon , American film director, producer, screenwriter, and visual effects artist (died 2023)Theresa Merritt , American actress (died 1998) September 29 –Lizabeth Scott , American actress, singer, and model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency (died 2015) October 5 –Woodrow Parfrey , American actor (died 1984) October 7 –Martha Stewart , American actress (died 2021) October 8 –Eileen Essell , English actress (died 2015) October 9 -Fyvush Finkel , American actor and director (died 2016) October 20 –John Anderson , American character actor (died 1992) October 23 –Coleen Gray , American actress (died 2015) October 27 –Ruby Dee , American actress (died 2014) October 28 -Jack Murdock , American actor (died 2001) October 31 –Barbara Bel Geddes , American actress, artist and children's author (died 2005) November 3 -George Morrison , Irish director of documentary films (died 2025) November 9 –Dorothy Dandridge , American actress and singer (died 1965) November 12 –Kim Hunter , American actress (died 2002) November 13 November 14 –Veronica Lake , American actress (died 1973) November 15 –Francesco Rosi , Italian film director and screenwriter (died 2015) November 16 –Royal Dano , American actor (died 1994) November 17 -Ted Beniades , American character actor (died 2014) November 22 –Lynne Roberts , American actress (died 1978) November 26 –Adam Williams , American actor (died 2006) November 27 -Jacqueline White , American former actress November 29 –Laurie Main , Australian actor (died 2012) December 2 December 3 -Len Lesser , American character actor (died 2011) December 4 –Gérard Philipe , French actor (died 1959) December 9 –Redd Foxx , American stand-up comedian and actor (died 1991) December 11 –Dilip Kumar , Indian actor and film producer (died 2021) December 21 –Paul Winchell , American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, humanitarian, and inventor (died 2005) December 22 –Ruth Roman , American actress (died 1999) December 24 –Ava Gardner , American actress (died 1990) December 26 –Alfred Dennis , American actor (died 2016) December 28Ivan Desny , French actor (died 2002)Stan Lee , American comic-book, editor, publisher and producer (died 2018) February 1 –William Desmond Taylor , film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal. (born 1872) February 4 –Florence Deshon , American actress (born 1893) March 4 –Bert Williams , American actor and singer (born 1874) May 21 –Sidney Ainsworth , actor (born 1872) May 26 –Walter Jones , American actor (b.1874) June 6 –Lillian Russell , stage and screen actress (born 1860/61) June 15 –Howard Crampton , actor (born 1865) July 5 –Bobby Connelly , child star (born 1909) September 23 –W. Chrystie Miller , veteran stage & screen actor (born 1843) November 30 –René Cresté , actor and director (born 1881) ^ Solomon, Aubrey (2014).The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography .ISBN 978-0-7864-8160-6 Ultimately,Robin Hood was enormously profitable with its $2,101,044 domestic rentals on a cost of $930,043. ^a b c Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers",International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38 (1938) p 942 accessed January 28, 2017^a b Birchard, Robert S. (2004).Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood . 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