1926 in film

Events

• August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone[?] film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33 1/3 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 A. Lindbergh[?]'s takeoff for Paris.

Top Grossing Films of the Year

1. Aloma of the South Seas[?]
2. What Price Glory[?]

Other Films Released

1. Madame Mystery[?], starring Theda Bara

Births

• January 5 - Maria Schell[?], actress
• January 14 - Tom Tryon[?], actor, novelist (+ 1991)
• January 14 - Maria Schell[?], Swiss actress
• January 17 - Moira Shearer[?], actress, dancer
• January 19 - Fritz Weaver[?], actor
• January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress
• May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and actor
• June 1 - Andy Griffith, actor
• June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, actress
• June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer

Deaths

Other Movies Released