1922 in film

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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).

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	Robin Hood	$2,500,000
2.	Oliver Twist	2,000,000
3.	Blood and Sand
4.	Manslaughter
5.	Grandma's Boy
6.	Smilin' Through
7.	More to Be Pitied Than Scorned

Films released in 1922

U.S.A. unless stated

• The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• A Bill of Divorcement directed by Denison Clift, starring Constance Binney, Fay Compton - (Britain)
• A Blind Bargain, directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney
• Beyond the Rocks, directed by Sam Wood; starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino
• Blood and Sand, directed by Fred Niblo; starring Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, and Lila Lee
• The Burning Soil (Der brennende Acker) - (Germany)
• The Card directed by A.V. Bramble - (Britain)
• Clarence, starring Wallace Reid and directed by William C. deMille
• Cocaine, directed by Graham Cutts - (Britain)
• Cops, a Buster Keaton film
• Crainquebille (Coster Bill of Paris), directed by Jacques Feyder - (France)
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse the Gambler), directed by Fritz Lang; starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge - (Germany)
• Dr. Jack, starring Harold Lloyd
• Fair Lady, directed by Kenneth Webb
• La Femme de nulle part, directed by Louis Delluc - (France)
• Flesh and Blood, starring Lon Chaney
• Foolish Wives, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim
• The Ghost Breaker, starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee; directed by Alfred E. Green
• Grandma's Boy, starring Harold Lloyd
• The Grass Orphan directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring Margaret Bannerman, Reginald Owen - (Britain)
• Häxan, directed by Benjamin Christensen - (Sweden)
• Lorna Doone
• Manslaughter, starring Thomas Meighan
• Miss Lulu Bett, directed by William C. deMille - (film mentioned in article)
• Moran of the Lady Letty, directed by George Melford, starring Dorothy Dalton & Rudolph Valentino
• More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
• Mud and Sand, a parody of Blood and Sand, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Nanook of the North (documentary)
• Nice People, starring Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels directed by William C. deMille
• 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 - (Britain)
• Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan
• One Exciting Night, directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Carol Dempster & Henry Hull
• Pay Day
• Peg o' My Heart, directed by King Vidor
• Phantom, directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover and Lya De Putti - (Germany)
• The Primitive Lover, directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Constance Talmadge
• The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Lewis Stone
• Rent Free, starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee; directed by Howard Higgin
• Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan; starring Douglas Fairbanks
• Saturday Night, starring Leatrice Joy and Conrad Nagel
• Shadows directed by Tom Forman; starring Lon Chaney and Marguerite De La Motte
• Sherlock Holmes, Starring John Barrymore
• Smilin' Through, starring Norma Talmadge
• Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep directed by George Pearson and starring Betty Balfour - (Britain)
• Tess of the Storm Country, starring Mary Pickford
• The Three Must-Get-Theres (L'étroit mousquetaire), directed by and starring Max Linder - (France)
• The Timber Queen
• The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong
• Vaskresenja ne biva bez smrti, (There's no resurrection without death), the first Montenegrin movie
• What's Wrong with the Women? directed by Roy William Neill; starring Constance Bennett & Hedda Hopper
• When Knighthood Was in Flower starring Marion Davies - (film mentioned in article)
• White Eagle
• Wildness of Youth, directed by Ivan Abramson
• The Young Rajah, starring Rudolph Valentino

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 (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)

Births

• January 7 - Vincent Gardenia, actor (died 1992)
• January 10 - Hannelore Schroth, actress (died 1987)
• January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, director (died 1970)
• January 17 - Betty White, actress
• January 19 - Guy Madison, actor (died 1996)
• January 21 - Paul Scofield, actor (died 2008)
• January 31 - Joanne Dru, actress (died 1996)
• February 6 - Patrick Macnee, actor
• February 7 - Hattie Jacques, actress (died 1980)
• February 9 - Kathryn Grayson, singer, actress(died 2010)
• February 26 - Margaret Leighton, actress (died 1976)
• March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director (died 1975)
• March 20 - Carl Reiner, actor, director
• March 21 - Russ Meyer, director, producer (died 2004)
• April 5 - Gale Storm, singer, actress (died 2009)
• April 27 - Jack Klugman, actor
• May 10 - Nancy Walker, actress (died 1992)
• May 27 - Christopher Lee, actor
• May 31 - Denholm Elliott, actor (died 1992)
• June 1 - Joan Caulfield, actress (died 1991)
• June 10 - Judy Garland, singer, actress (died 1969)
• June 26 - Eleanor Parker, actress
• July 26 - Blake Edwards, director (died 2010)
• August 8 - Rory Calhoun, actor (died 1999)
• August 8 - Esther Williams, swimmer, actress
• September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, actor, director (died 2000)
• September 1 - Yvonne De Carlo, actress (died 2007)
• September 14 - Michel Auclair, actor (died 1988)
• September 15 - Jackie Cooper, actor, director (died 2011)
• September 29 - Lizabeth Scott, actress
• October 31 - Barbara Bel Geddes, actress (died 2005)
• November 12 - Kim Hunter, actress (died 2002)
• November 14 - Veronica Lake, actress (died 1973)
• December 2 - Leo Gordon, actor and screenplay writer (died 2000)
• December 4 - Gérard Philipe, actor (died 1959)
• December 22 - Ruth Roman, actress (died 1999)
• December 24 - Ava Gardner, actress (died 1990)

Deaths

• February 4 - Florence Deshon, American actress
• February 22 - William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal.
• May 21 - Sidney Ainsworth, actor
• June 15 - Howard Crampton, actor
• July 5 - Bobby Connelly, child star
• June 6 - Lillian Russell, stage and screen actress
• September 23 - W. Chrystie Miller, veteran stage & screen actor
• November 30 - René Cresté, actor and director

Film Debuts

• Clara Bow
• Walt Disney - director, producer
• Louise Dresser
• Will Hay
• William Powell
• Darryl F. Zanuck - director, producer
• Rin Tin Tin