1926 Movies

This movie page looks at 1926 Movies.  Finding box office information for movies made in the 1920s and 1930s is extremely difficult.   For somebody looking for box office information on 1926, it is very very frustrating.  Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 36,000 movies.  So, we figured we would show all the 1927 movies in our database.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1926.  Obviously, many movies made in 1925 earned box office dollars in 1926.  On the other side, many movies made in 1926 made money in 1927 and later.  This page looks at over 90 1926 Top Box Office Movies.  The movies are listed in a massive table that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  We will update this page on a regular basis.

Our UMR Top 50 of 1926

1926 Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.

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  • Sort 1926 Movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each 1926 Movies received.
  • Sort 1926 Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR).  Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Top earners in 1926 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

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  1. PART 3 OF 12
    Say It Again $166,908.00 Alyce Mills Richard Dix 
    The Magician $166,894.00 Alice Terry  Paul Wegener 
    Summer Bachelors $165,888.00 Madge Bellamy Allan Forrest 
    Three Faces East $165,725.00 Jetta Goudal Robert Ames
    The Silent Lover $164,400.00 Natalie Kingston  Milton Sills
    It’s the Old Army Game $163,000.00 Louise Brooks  W. C. Fields 
    Loves of Ricardo $159,200.00 Lolita Lee George Beban
    Just Another Blonde $158,750.00 Dorothy Mackaill  Jack Mulhall 
    The Reckless Lady $154,402.00 Belle Bennett  James Kirkwood 
    Subway Sadie $154,000.00 Dorothy Mackaill Jack Mulhall
    The Skyrocket $153,368.00 Gladys Brockwell Charles West
    The Nervous Wreck $153,036.00 Phyllis Haver Harrison Ford
    God Gave Me Twenty Cents $152,000.00 Lois Moran  Jack Mulhall 
    Lovey Mary $151,336.00 Bessie Love William Haines
    The Song and Dance Man $150,400.00 Bessie Love  Tom Moore 
    Up in Mabel’s Room $147,350.00 Marie Prevost Harrison Ford
    Outside the Law(1920) $147,156.00 Priscilla Dean  Wheeler Oakman
    Sea Horses $145,375.00 Florence Vidor Jack Holt 
    Hands Up! $140,417.00 Virginia Lee Corbin  George A. Billings
    The Great Gatsby $139,650.00 Lois Wilson  Warner Baxter
    The Barrier $137,875.00 Marceline Day Norman Kerry
    What Happened to Jones $137,500.00 Marian Nixon  Reginald Denny
    Fascinating Youth $136,695.00 Ivy Harris Charles “Buddy” Rogers
    Stranded in Paris $136,315.00 Bebe Daniels  James Hall
    Kosher Kitty Kelly $134,823.00 Viola Dana  Tom Forman 
    Ladies at Play $133,850.00 Doris Kenyon Lloyd Hughes 
    The Wise Guy $131,350.00 Mary Astor James Kirkwood
    The Flaming Frontier $130,904.00 Anne Cornwall Hoot Gibson 
    The Night Cry $128,765.00 June Marlowe John Harron
    The Blind Goddess $128,333.00 Esther Ralston Jack Holt
    Oh! What a Nurse! $125,650.00 Patsy Ruth Miller Syd Chaplin
    Memory Lane $125,450.00 Eleanor Boardman Conrad Nagel 
    Hold that Lion $124,575.00 Constance Howard Douglas MacLean 
    Sweet Daddies $124,167.00 Vera Gordon George Sidney
    Good and Naughty $120,420.00 Pola Negri  Tom Moore 
    Take if from Me $118,500.00 Blanche Mehaffey  Reginald Denny 
    You’d Be Surprised $113,600.00 Dorothy Sebastian  Raymond Griffith
    The Auction Block $113,088.00 Eleanor Boardman Charles Ray
    So’s Your Old Man $111,730.00 Alice Joyce  W. C. Fields 
    The Girl from Montmartre $111,400.00 Barbara La Marr  Lewis Stone
    Money Talks $111,322.00 Claire Windsor Owen Moore 
    Three Bad Men/3 Bad Men $111,225.00 Olive Borden  George O’Brien
    Senor Daredevil $110,280.00 Dorothy Devore  Ken Maynard 
    The Penalty(1920) $109,800.00 Doris Pawn  Charles Clary 
    The Lone Wolf Returns  $109,350.00 Billie Dove Bert Lytell 
    The Unknown Soldier $106,661.00 Marguerite De La Motte  Charles Emmett Mack 
    Monte Carlo $104,767.00 Gertrude Olmstead Lew Cody
    The Blonde Saint $103,800.00 Doris Kenyon  Lewis Stone
    The Enchanted Hill $102,583.00 Florence Vidor  Jack Holt 
    Don Juan’s Three Nights $100,700.00 Shirley Mason Lewis Stone

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  2. PART 2 OF 12
    The Untamed Lady $231,300.00 Gloria Swanson  Lawrence Gray
    That’s My Baby/She’s My Baby $231,183.00 Margaret Morris Douglas MacLean
    Dancing Mothers $230,467.00 Alice Joyce  Norman Trevor 
    Syncopating Sue $228,700.00 Corinne Griffith  Tom Moore
    Ranson’s Folly $224,210.00 Dorothy Mackaill Richard Barthelmess
    Tin Gods $223,350.00 Renée Adorée  Thomas Meighan
    The Wilderness Woman $222,717.00 Aileen Pringle Lowell Sherman
    Valencia $221,098.00 Mae Murray Lloyd Hughes
    The Dancer of Paris $212,443.00 Dorothy Mackaill Conway Tearle
    Into Her Kingdom $210,806.00 Corinne Griffith Einar Hanson
    The Palm Beach Girl $210,550.00 Bebe Daniels Lawrence Gray
    Let’s Get Married $209,900.00 Lois Wilson  Richard Dix
    Just Suppose $208,800.00 Lois Moran  Richard Barthelmess 
    Prince of Tempters/Prince of Temptation $208,767.00 Lois Moran Ben Lyon 
    The New Klondike $206,983.00 Lila Lee Thomas Meighan
    Rolling Home $205,385.00 Marian Nixon Reginald Denny
    Padlocked $205,340.00 Lois Moran Noah Beery Sr. 
    It Must Be Love $204,550.00 Colleen Moore  Jean Hersholt 
    The Waltz Dream $204,035.00 Mady Christians Willy Fritsch
    The Midnight Sun $203,900.00 Laura La Plante  Pat O’Malley 
    Ella Cinders $202,828.00 Colleen Moore Lloyd Hughes 
    The Waning Sex $200,250.00 Norma Shearer Conrad Nagel
    Old Loves for New/Desert Healer $198,990.00 Barbara Bedford Lewis Stone 
    Nell Gwyn $198,700.00 Dorothy Gish  Randle Ayrton 
    Skinner’s Dress Suit $198,108.00 Laura La Plante  Reginald Denny
    Twinkletoes $194,000.00 Colleen Moore Kenneth Harlan
    Bluebeard’s Seven Wives $193,000.00 Lois Wilson  Ben Lyon 
    Faust $192,200.00 Camilla Horn Gösta Ekman 
    Paris $191,700.00 Joan Crawford Charles Ray
    The Show-Off $191,100.00 Lois Wilson Ford Sterling
    The American Venus $190,067.00 Esther Ralston Lawrence Gray
    The Eagle of the Sea $188,500.00 Florence Vidor Ricardo Cortez
    A Social Celebrity $182,533.00 Louise Brooks Adolphe Menjou
    Mannequin $180,696.00 Alice Joyce Warner Baxter 
    Gigolo $180,500.00 Jobyna Ralston  Rod La Rocque
    Miss Brewster’s Millions $180,217.00 Bebe Daniels Warner Baxter
    The Rainmaker $179,883.00 Georgia Hale William Collier, Jr.
    The Flaming Forest $179,202.00 Renée Adorée  Antonio Moreno
    One Minute to Play  $177,578.00 Mary McAllister Harold ‘Red’ Grange
    So This is Paris $177,575.00 Patsy Ruth Miller Monte Blue
    The Amateur Gentleman $177,100.00 Dorothy Dunbar  Richard Barthelmess
    The Popular Sin $176,600.00 Florence Vidor  Clive Brook
    The Wanderer $173,500.00 Greta Nissen William Collier, Jr.
    The White Black Sheep $171,730.00 Patsy Ruth Miller  Richard Barthelmess
    You Never Know Women $171,500.00 Florence Vidor  Lowell Sherman 
    The Greater Glory $169,750.00 Anna Q. Nilsson Conway Tearle
    The Campus Flirt $169,467.00 Bebe Daniels  James Hall 
    Dance Madness $168,065.00 Claire Windsor Conrad Nagel 
    Tin Hats $167,400.00 Claire Windsor Conrad Nagel

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  3. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    Here are the estimated B.O. for the year 1926.

    PART 1 OF 12
    What Price Glory? $1,821,811.00 Dolores del Río Edmund Lowe
    Beau Geste $1,404,785.00 Alice Joyce  Ronald Colman 
    The Better ‘Ole $999,174.00 Doris Hill  Sydney Chaplin 
    Old Ironsides $862,640.00 Esther Ralston  Charles Farrell 
    The Sea Beast $841,918.00 Dolores Costello John Barrymore
    Flesh and the Devil $669,020.00 Greta Garbo John Gilbert 
    The Black Pirate $640,242.00 Billie Dove  Douglas Fairbanks 
    The Volga Boatman $627,003.00 Elinor Fair William Boyd
    For Heaven’s Sake $622,222.00 Jobyna Ralston Harold Lloyd
    Variety $579,213.00 Maly Delschaft  Emil Jannings 
    We’re in the Navy Now $554,328.00 Lorraine Eason Wallace Beery
    The Son of the Sheik $533,200.00 Vilma Bánky Rudolph Valentino
    Mare Nostrum $519,796.00 Alice Terry  Antonio Moreno 
    Aloma of the South Seas $477,021.00 Gilda Gray Percy Marmont
    La Boheme $451,609.00 Lillian Gish John Gilbert
    The Fire Brigade $440,025.00 May McAvoy  Charles Ray
    Kiki $397,375.00 Norma Talmadge Ronald Colman
    Bardelys the Magnificent $386,418.00 Eleanor Boardman John Gilbert 
    The Blackbird $362,483.00 Renée Adorée Lon Chaney
    The Sorrows of Satan $360,797.00 Carol Dempster Adolphe Menjou
    The Road to Mandalay $357,436.00 Lois Moran Lon Chaney
    The Temptress $350,646.00 Greta Garbo Antonio Moreno
    The Cohens and Kellys $334,022.00 Vera Gordon Charles Murray
    The Quarterback $321,650.00 Esther Ralston Richard Dix
    Beverly of Graustark $321,199.00 Marion Davies Antonio Moreno
    Mike $301,114.00 Sally O’Neil William Haines
    Torrent $300,324.00 Greta Garbo  Ricardo Cortez
    The Duchess of Buffalo $299,998.00 Constance Talmadge Tullio Carminati
    Irene $297,625.00 Colleen Moore Lloyd Hughes
    Behind the Front $296,651.00 Mary Brian Wallace Beery
    Sparrows $291,200.00 Mary Pickford Roy Stewart 
    Battling Butter $286,431.00 Sally O’Neil Buster Keaton 
    Kid Boots $283,165.00 Clara Bow Eddie Cantor
    Upstage $282,392.00 Norma Shearer Oscar Shaw
    Men of Steel $280,240.00 Doris Kenyon Milton Sills 
    Fine Manners  $279,350.00 Gloria Swanson Eugene O’Brien
    Mantrap $278,997.00 Clara Bow Ernest Torrence
    The Winning of Barbara Worth $278,350.00 Vilma Bánky Ronald Colman
    The Vanishing American $275,152.00 Lois Wilson Richard Dix
    Michel Strogoff $273,649.00 Nathalie Kovanko  Ivan Mosjoukine 
    The Ace of Cads $271,650.00 Alice Joyce  Adolphe Menjou 
    The Bat $262,450.00 Louise Fazenda George Beranger
    The Grand Duchess and the Waiter $252,950.00 Florence Vidor Adolphe Menjou 
    The Devil’s Circus $250,800.00 Norma Shearer Charles Emmett Mack
    The Four Horseman of The Apocalypse(1921) $250,636.00 Alice Terry Rudolph Valentino
    The Strong Man $248,390.00 Priscilla Bonner  Harry Langdon
    Mademoiselle Modiste $242,430.00 Corinne Griffith Norman Kerry
    The Third Degree $241,179.00 Dolores Costello  Rockliffe Fellowes 
    Brown of Harvard $235,223.00 Mary Brian William Haines
    Tramp, Tramp, Tramp $234,950.00 Joan Crawford Harry Langdon
    Wet Paint $234,517.00 Helene Costello Raymond Griffith

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  4. According to my letterboxd account, I have watched 110 movies from the 1920s and 13 specifically from 1926.

    The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is The Winning of Barbara Worth.

    The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is What Price Glory?

    The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is So This Is Paris.

    I didn’t see Bardeleys the Magnificent listed, but I am including it since I have seen so few of them.

    Favourite 1926 Movies;

    The General
    Don Juan
    The Winning of Barbara Worth
    Sparrows
    Beau Geste
    Flesh and The Devil
    The Temptress
    The Son of the Sheik
    Battling Butler
    Faust

    Other 1926 Movies I Have seen:

    Torrent
    So This Is Paris

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