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
- Shadows directed by Tom Forman, starring Lon Chaney and Marguerite De La Motte
- 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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