1922 in film

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The following is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)[]

The top ten films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1922
Rank Title Studio Box office gross rental
1 Robin Hood United Artists $2,500,000[1]
2 When Knighthood Was in Flower Paramount Pictures/Cosmopolitan Productions $1,500,000[1]
3 Blood and Sand Paramount Pictures $1,250,000[2]
4 Grandma's Boy Pathé Exchange $1,100,000[2]
5 Smilin' Through First National Pictures $1,000,000[2]
6 Rags to Riches Warner Bros. $418,000[3]
7 Heroes of the Street $366,000[3]
8 The Beautiful and Damned $327,000[3]
9 Your Best Friend $132,000[3]
10 A Dangerous Adventure $83,000[3]

Events[]

  • June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
  • November 26 – The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).

Notable films released in 1922[]

United States unless stated

B[]

  • The Bachelor Daddy, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy
  • Beauty's Worth, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
  • Beyond the Rocks, directed by Sam Wood; starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino
  • A Bill of Divorcement, directed by Denison Clift, starring Constance Binney, Fay Compton – (Britain)
  • The Blacksmith, a Buster Keaton short
  • A Blind Bargain, directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney
  • Blood and Sand, directed by Fred Niblo; starring Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, and Lila Lee
  • The Bohemian Girl, Starring Gladys Cooper and Ivor Novello – (GB)
  • The Bride's Play, directed by George Terwilliger, starring Marion Davies and Carl Miller
  • The Burning Soil (Der brennende Acker) – (Germany)

C[]

  • The Card, directed by A.V. Bramble – (Britain)
  • Clarence, directed by William C. deMille, starring Wallace Reid
  • Cocaine, directed by Graham Cutts – (GB)
  • Cops, a Buster Keaton film
  • Crainquebille (Coster Bill of Paris), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)

D[]

  • Daydreams, a Buster Keaton short
  • A Debt of Honour, starring Isobel Elsom and Clive Brook (Britain)
  • The Dictator, directed by Jim Cruze; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
  • Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse the Gambler), directed by Fritz Lang; starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge – (Germany)
  • Dr. Jack, starring Harold Lloyd

E[]

F[]

G[]

  • The Ghost Breaker, directed by Alfred E. Green; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
  • A Gipsy Cavalier, directed by J. Stuart Blackton ; starring Georges Carpentier and Flora le Breton – (GB)
  • Grandma's Boy, starring Harold Lloyd
  • The Grass Orphan, directed by Frank Hall Crane; starring Margaret Bannerman, Reginald Owen – (Britain)

H[]

  • Häxan, directed by Benjamin Christensen – (Sweden/Denmark)
  • The Headless Horseman, starring Will Rogers

I[]

L[]

  • Laborer's Love (Laogong zhi aiqing) – (China)
  • Lorna Doone, directed by Maurice Tourneur
  • The Loves of Pharaoh (Das Weib des Pharao), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
  • Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Richard Oswald, starring Conrad Veidt and Liane Haid (Germany)

M[]

N[]

  • Nanook of the North, a documentary directed by Robert J. Flaherty
  • Nathan the Wise, directed by Manfred Noa (Germany)
  • Nice People, directed by William C. deMille; starring Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels
  • Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror), directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Max Schreck – (Germany)
  • Number 13, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; starring Ernest Thesiger – (GB)

O[]

  • Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan
  • One Exciting Night, directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Carol Dempster and Henry Hull
  • One Glorious Day, directed by James Cruze; starring Will Rogers and Lila Lee

P[]

  • The Paleface, starring Buster Keaton
  • Pay Day, a Charles Chaplin short
  • Peg o' My Heart, directed by King Vidor
  • Phantom, directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover and Lya De Putti – (Germany)
  • Polikushka – (U.S.S.R.)
  • The Primitive Lover, directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Constance Talmadge
  • The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Lewis Stone

R[]

  • Rent Free, directed by Howard Higgin; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
  • Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan; starring Douglas Fairbanks
  • Rob Roy, directed by W.P. Kellino (GB)

S[]

T[]

  • Tess of the Storm Country, starring Mary Pickford
  • The Three Must-Get-Theres directed by and starring Max Linder
  • The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong
  • Vaskresenja ne biva bez smrti, (There's no resurrection without death), the first Montenegrin movie

W[]

Y[]

Short film series[]

  • Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)
  • Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
  • Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
  • Our Gang (1922–1944)

Animated short film series[]

Felix the Cat cartoon.

Births[]

  • January 2 - Jason Evers, actor (died 2005)
  • January 10 – Hannelore Schroth, actress (died 1987)
  • January 13 – Albert Lamorisse, director (died 1970)
  • January 16 – Irene Vernon, actress (died 1998)
  • January 17 – Betty White, actress
  • January 19 – Guy Madison, actor (died 1996)
  • January 20 - Ray Anthony, bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor
  • January 21
    • Telly Savalas, actor (died 1994)
    • Paul Scofield, actor (died 2008)
  • January 31 – Joanne Dru, actress (died 1996)
  • February 6 – Patrick Macnee, actor (died 2015)
  • February 7 – Hattie Jacques, actress (died 1980)
  • February 9 – Kathryn Grayson, singer, actress (died 2010)
  • February 24 -Steven Hill, actor (died 2016)
  • February 26 – Margaret Leighton, actress (died 1976)
  • March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director (died 1975)
  • March 8 – Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer (died 2008)
  • March 20 – Carl Reiner, comic actor, director and screenwriter (died 2020)
  • March 21 – Russ Meyer, director, producer (died 2004)
  • April 3 – Doris Day, actress, singer (died 2019)[5]
  • April 5 – Gale Storm, singer, actress (died 2009)
  • April 7 - Margia Dean, American former beauty queen and actress
  • April 15 – Michael Ansara, American stage, screen, and voice actor (died 2013)
  • April 18 – Barbara Hale, American actress (died 2017)[6]
  • 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 - Darren McGavin, American actor (died 2006)
  • May 10 – Nancy Walker, American actress (died 1992)
  • May 27 – Christopher Lee, English actor (died 2015)[7]
  • May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English-born actor (died 1992)
  • June 1
    • Joan Caulfield, American actress (died 1991)
    • Joan Copeland, American actress
  • June 9 – George Axelrod, American scriptwriter and director (died 2003)
  • June 10 – Judy Garland, American singer, actress (died 1969)[8]
  • June 16 – Frances Rafferty, American actress (died 2004)
  • June 22 – Mona Lisa, Filipina actress (died 2019)
  • June 26 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (died 2013)
  • July 6 – William Schallert, American actor, (died 2016)
  • July 26
    • Blake Edwards, American director (died 2010)
    • Jason Robards, American actor (died 2000)
  • July 27
    • Adolfo Celi, Italian film actor and director, (died 1986)
    • Norman Lear, American writer and producer
  • August 1
    • Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (died 2006)
    • Paul Lambert, American actor (died 1997)
  • August 8 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (died 1999)
  • August 22 - Micheline Presle, French actress
  • September 1
    • Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director (died 2000)
    • Yvonne De Carlo, American actress (died 2007)
  • September 8 – Sid Caesar, American comedian, actor (died 2014)
  • September 14 – Michel Auclair, European actor (died 1988)
  • September 15 – Jackie Cooper, American actor, director (died 2011)
  • September 16
    • Guy Hamilton, English director (died 2016)
    • Janis Paige, American actress
  • September 23 – Louise Latham, American actress (died 2018)
  • September 24 - Bert I. Gordon, American filmmaker and visual effects artist
  • September 29 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (died 2015)
  • October 5 - Woodrow Parfrey, American actor (died 1984)
  • October 7 - Martha Stewart (actress), American actress (died 2021)
  • October 20 - John Anderson, American actor (died 1992)
  • October 23 – Coleen Gray, American actress (died 2015)
  • October 27 – Ruby Dee, American actress (died 2014)
  • October 31 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (died 2005)
  • November 9 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress, singer (died 1965)
  • November 12 – Kim Hunter, actress (died 2002)
  • November 13
    • Madeleine Sherwood, actress (died 2016)
    • Oskar Werner, actor (died 1984)
  • November 14 – Veronica Lake, American actress (died 1973)
  • November 15 – Francesco Rosi, film director (died 2015)
  • November 26 - Adam Williams, American actor (died 2005)
  • November 27 - Jacqueline White, American actress
  • December 2
    • Don Fellows, American actor (died 2007)
    • Leo Gordon, American actor and screenplay writer (died 2000)
  • December 4 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (died 1959)
  • December 11 – Dilip Kumar, Indian actor (died 2021)
  • December 21 – Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, voice artist, humanitarian and inventor (died 2005)
  • December 22 – Ruth Roman, actress (died 1999)
  • December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress (died 1990)
  • December 28 – Stan Lee, American comic-book writer, producer and actor (died 2018)

Deaths[]

  • 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)

Film debuts[]

  • Clara Bow
  • Walt Disney – director, producer
  • Louise Dresser
  • William Haines
  • Will Hay
  • Edward Everett Horton
  • Gene Lockhart
  • Anita Louise
  • George O'Brien
  • William Powell
  • Anne Shirley
  • Darryl F. Zanuck – director, producer
  • Rin Tin Tin

References[]

  1. ^ a b "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990. p. M150.
  2. ^ a b c Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  3. ^ a b c d e Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 1 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  4. ^ "Estrellita del Cine (1922)". imdb.com.
  5. ^ "Doris Day, legendary singer and actress, dies at 97". NBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Obituary: Barbara Hale". The Irish Times. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Obituary: Sir Christopher Lee". BBC News. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  8. ^ "Judy Garland | American singer and actress". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 May 2019.

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