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Overview of the events of 1922 in film
Overview of the events of 1922 in film
The following is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Events
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
Highest-grossing films of 1922
| Rank |
Title |
Gross
|
| 1
|
Robin Hood
|
$2,500,000
|
| 2
|
Oliver Twist
|
$4,360,000
|
| 3
|
Blood and Sand
|
$1,250,000 (US/Canada)
|
| 4
|
Manslaughter
|
$1,200,000
|
| 5
|
Grandma's Boy
|
$1,100,000 (US/Canada)
|
| 6
|
When Knighthood Was in Flower
|
$1,000,000 (US/Canada)
|
| 7
|
Smilin' Through
|
$1,000,000 (US/Canada)
|
Notable films released in 1922
United States unless stated
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- The Electric House, a Buster Keaton short
- Fair Lady, directed by Kenneth Webb
- La Femme de nulle part, directed by Louis Delluc – (France)
- Flames of Passion, starring Mae Marsh and C. Aubrey Smith – (GB)
- Flesh and Blood, starring Lon Chaney
- Foolish Wives, directed by & starring Erich von Stroheim
- The Frozen North, starring Buster Keaton
- 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)
- Häxan, directed by Benjamin Christensen – (Sweden/Denmark)
- The Headless Horseman, starring Will Rogers
- In the Name of the Law, directed by Emory Johnson, starring Ralph Lewis and Claire McDowell
- 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)
- Manslaughter, starring Thomas Meighan
- Marizza (aka Marizza, called the Smuggler Madonna), directed by F.W. Murnau – (Germany)
- Moran of the Lady Letty, directed by George Melford, starring Dorothy Dalton & Rudolph Valentino
- More to Be Pitied Than Scorned, directed by Edward LeSaint
- Mud and Sand, a parody of Blood and Sand, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- My Boy, starring Jackie Coogan
- My Wife's Relations, starring Buster Keaton
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Saturday Night, starring Leatrice Joy and Conrad Nagel
- The Scarlet Letter, starring Sybil Thorndike – (GB)
- Shadows, directed by Tom Forman; starring Lon Chaney and Marguerite De La Motte
- Sherlock Holmes, starring John Barrymore and Roland Young
- Smilin' Through, starring Norma Talmadge
- Sodom and Gomorrah, directed by Michael Curtiz – (Austria)
- La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet) – (France)
- Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep directed by George Pearson; starring Betty Balfour – (GB)
- The Suram Fortress (Suramis tsikhe) – (U.S.S.R.)
- 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
- What's Wrong with the Women?, directed by Roy William Neill; starring Constance Bennett & Hedda Hopper
- When Knighthood Was in Flower, starring Marion Davies
- Wildness of Youth, directed by Ivan Abramson
- The Young Diana, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
- The Young Rajah, starring Rudolph Valentino
Short film series
Animated short film series
Felix the Cat cartoon.
Births
- 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 21
- 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 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, actor, director
- March 21 – Russ Meyer, director, producer (died 2004)
- April 3 – Doris Day, actress, singer (died 2019)[1]
- April 5 – Gale Storm, singer, actress (died 2009)
- April 15 – Michael Ansara, American stage, screen, and voice actor (died 2013)
- April 18 – Barbara Hale, American actress (died 2017)[2]
- April 27 – Jack Klugman, American actor (died 2012)
- May 10 – Nancy Walker, American actress (died 1992)
- May 27 – Christopher Lee, English actor (died 2015)[3]
- May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English-born actor (died 1992)
- June 1 – Joan Caulfield, American actress (died 1991)
- June 9 – George Axelrod, American scriptwriter and director (died 2003)
- June 10 – Judy Garland, American singer, actress (died 1969)[4]
- June 16 – Frances Rafferty, American actress (died 2004)
- June 26 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (died 2013)
- July 6 – William Schallert, American actor, (died 2016)
- July 26 – Blake Edwards, American director (died 2010)
- August 8 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (died 1999)
- September 1
- 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
- September 23 – Louise Latham, American actress (died 2018)
- September 29 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (died 2015)
- October 23 – Coleen Gray, American actress (died 2015)
- 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
- November 14 – Veronica Lake, American actress (died 1973)
- November 15 – Francesco Rosi, film director (died 2015)
- December 2 – Leo Gordon, actor and screenplay writer (died 2000)
- December 4 – Gérard Philipe, actor (died 1959)
- December 11 – Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
- December 22
- December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress (died 1990)
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
References
External links
Media related to 1922 in film at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to 1922 in film at Wikimedia Commons