1922 in film

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 of 1922

1. Oliver Twist
2. More to Be Pitied Than Scorned

Movies Released

• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler directed by Fritz Lang
• Foolish Wives, starring and directed by 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), starring Max Schreck; directed by F.W. Murnau
• Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan
• The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Lewis Stone
• Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks; directed by Allan Dwan

Births

• January 13 - Albert Lamorisse, film director (+ 1970)
• January 17 - Betty White, actress
• February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, actor.
• March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
• April 5 - Gale Storm, singer/actress
• April 21 - Alistair MacLean, actor
• May 31 - Denholm Elliott, actor
• September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, Italian actor and director
• September 15 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director

Deaths

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