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1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Films released in 1926
4 Short film series
5 Animated short film series
6 Births
7 Deaths
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Top grossing films
Aloma of the South Seas
What Price Glory?
[edit] Films released in 1926
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, directed by Lotte Reiniger.
Aloma of the South Seas, starring Gilda Gray.
Battling Butler, a Buster Keaton film.
La Boheme, by King Vidor (see disambiguation)
The Black Pirate, starring Douglas Fairbanks.
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, starring John Barrymore.
Faust, directed by F.W. Murnau.
Flesh and the Devil, starring John Gilbert and Greta Garbo.
For Heaven's Sake, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd.
Madame Mystery, starring Theda Bara.
Mare Nostrum, directed by Rex Ingram
Mother
The Scarlet Letter, starring Lillian Gish. -(film mentioned in article)
Sea Beast, starring John Barrymore.
The Son of the Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino.
Sparrows, starring Mary Pickford.
Storm of Passion (Aiyoku no arashi)
The Student of Prague (1926 film), starring Conrad Veidt and Werner Krauss.
The Temptress, starring Greta Garbo and Antonio Moreno.
What Price Glory?, starring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and Dolores del Rio.
[edit] Short film series
Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
Our Gang (1922-1944)
Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
[edit] Animated short film series
Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
Koko the Clown (1919-1934)
Alice Comedies (1924-1927)
Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924-1927)
Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
Un-Natural History (1925-1927)
Oswald the Rabbit (1926-1928)
Pete the Pup (1926-1927)
[edit] Births
January 5 - Maria Schell, actress
January 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist († 1991)
January 17 - Moira Shearer, actress, dancer
January 19 - Fritz Weaver, actor
January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress
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
November 30 - Richard Crenna, actor
[edit] Deaths
January 30 - Barbara La Marr, actress
August 23 - Rudolph Valentino, actor
September 11 - Matsunosuke Onoe, actor
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