Tag: 1926

Director: Herbert Wilcox
Stars: Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton, Juliette Compton
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

An actress becomes the king’s mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman’s home.

Director: Sam Taylor
Stars: Beatrice Lillie, Jack Pickford, Doris Lloyd
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A maid who works for a traveling theatrical troupe wants desperately to be an actress, and manages to get some small roles in the company’s productions, but is determined to do anything she can to show that she deserves a shot at the big time.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Norma Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Gertrude Astor
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue’s manager, with whom she has fallen in love.

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: Evelyn Brent, Lawrence Gray, Louise Brooks
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The tale of two sisters with the older one pledged to look after the younger one that transpires between a department store, NYC’s Central Park and a boarding house. THe older one is the sweet, old-fashioned type and the younger is a jazz-age flapper who takes whatever falls her way. Mame, the older, goes on vacation and returns home to find that her kid sister, Janie, has vamped her way into the arms of Mame’s intended.

Director: Sidney Franklin
Stars: Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno, Creighton Hale
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Beverly of Graustark (1926) is a silent film directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno and Creighton Hale. The film’s screenplay was written by Agnes Christine Johnston based on the novel by George Barr McCutcheon, and set on the fictional land of Graustark. The movie features a final sequence in Technicolor. This was the first film by Sidney Franklin for MGM.

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: Eddie Cantor, Clara Bow, Billie Dove
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Ilka Grüning
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

A scientist is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife.

Director: Richard Rosson, Lewis Milestone
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Eugene O’Brien, Helen Dunbar
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

In a run down New York Tenament, a chorine named Orchid lives with her overprotective brother Buddy, who sees to it that no uptown Casanovas get a chance at seducing his sister. At a New Year’s Eve party the two are separated in the festivities, and millionaire playboy Brian Alden meets her, and they start seeing each other. Against her brother’s wishes, Orchid, at Alden’s behest, takes charm school-type instructions on how to be a society lady, and she seems to be turning into a snob. Alden regrets it, and after promising to allow her to be herself, gets Buddy’s okay to marry her.

Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Stars: Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France

A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Ernest Torrence, Clara Bow, Percy Marmont
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Gary Cooper
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher’s daughter.

Director: Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Noah Young
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discoves that the contest was a scam and the job non-existant. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Director: William Beaudine, Tom McNamara
Stars: Mary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Mary Louise Miller
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Ricardo Cortez, Carol Dempster
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Geoffrey, a young and impoverished writer, is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince’s hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn’t know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan, who is using Geoffrey as an experiment to show God that he can corrupt anybody.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D’Arcy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Rafael Sabatini’s story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardelys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to…and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Catherine Hessling, Pierre Lestringuez, Jacqueline Forzane
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

When the vivacious and beautiful Nana bombs at the Théâtre des Variétés, she embarks on the life of a courtesan, using her allure and charisma to entice and pleasure men.

Director: George W. Hill
Stars: Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A gruff Marine sergeant and a handsome new recruit compete for the affection of a nurse.

Director: Fred Niblo, Mauritz Stiller
Stars: Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Marc McDermott
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An architect tries suppressing his passion for a seductive woman.

Director: George Fitzmaurice
Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The son of the sheik and a dancing girl fall in love, but when he is made to believe she has betrayed him he seeks revenge.

Director: John Ford
Stars: George O’Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Stars: Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other once fiercely loved.

Director: Hans Richter
Stars: Stella F. Simon
Genre: Short, Art Film, Experimental
Country: Germany

Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray’s work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After having a child out of wedlock, a young Puritan woman is pressured to reveal the name of her lover.

Director: Marcel Duchamp
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Art Film, Experimental
Country: France

A spiral design spins dizzily. It’s replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.

Director: Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Germany

A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Stars: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

The Film Version Of Gorki’s Great Story Of The 1905 Revolution