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.
- Sort 1926 Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
- Sort 1926 Movies by domestic actual box office grosses
- Sort 1926 Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
- 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.
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
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
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
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
Nice addition to your yearly reports