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[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
[edit] Animated short film series
[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
