1922 in film
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Events
- November 26 - Toll of the Sea 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
- Oliver Twist
- More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
Movies released
Movies released in 1922 include:
- Beyond the Rocks directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino
- Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler directed by Fritz Lang
- Foolish Wives, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim
- Miss Lulu Bett, directed by William C. de Mille
- More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
- Nanook of the North (documentary)
- Nosferatu (Nosferatu the Vampire), directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck
- Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan
- The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Lewis Stone
- Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan and starring Douglas Fairbanks
Births
- January 7 - Vincent Gardenia, actor (d. 1992)
- January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, director (d. 1970)
- January 17 - Betty White, actress
- January 19 - Guy Madison, actor (d. 1996)
- January 21 - Paul Scofield, actor
- January 31 - Joanne Dru, actress (d. 1996)
- February 7 - Hattie Jacques, actress (d. 1980)
- February 9 - Kathryn Grayson, singer, actress
- February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, actor
- February 26 - Margaret Leighton, actress (d. 1976)
- March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director (d. 1975)
- March 20 - Carl Reiner, actor, director
- March 21 - Russ Meyer, director, producer (d. 2004)
- April 5 - Gale Storm, singer, actress
- April 27 - Jack Klugman, actor
- May 10 - Nancy Walker, actress (d. 1992)
- May 27 - Christopher Lee, actor
- May 31 - Denholm Elliott, actor (d. 1992)
- June 1 - Joan Caulfield, actress (d. 1991)
- June 10 - Judy Garland, singer, actress (d. 1969)
- June 26 - Eleanor Parker, actress
- July 26 - Blake Edwards, director
- August 8 - Rory Calhoun, actor (d. 1999)
- August 8 - Esther Williams, swimmer, actress
- September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, actor, director (d. 2000)
- September 1 - Yvonne De Carlo, actress
- September 15 - Jackie Cooper, actor, director
- September 29 - Lizabeth Scott, actress
- October 31 - Barbara Bel Geddes, actress
- November 12 - Kim Hunter, actress (d. 2002)
- December 4 - Gérard Philipe, actor (d. 1959)
- December 22 - Ruth Roman, actress (d. 1999)
- December 24 - Ava Gardner, actress (d. 1990)
Deaths
- February 22 - William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal.
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