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

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Top earners in 1926 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

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  1. PART 8 OF 12
    Going the Limit $17,550.00 Sally Long George O’Hara
    The Flying Horseman $17,500.00 Gladys McConnell  Buck Jones
    The Gentle Cyclone $17,117.00 Rose Blossom  Buck Jones
    Millionaires $16,708.00 Louise Fazenda George Sidney 
    Made for Love $16,700.00 Leatrice Joy Edmund Burns
    The Little Giant $16,300.00 Edna Murphy  Glenn Hunter 
    The Golden Web $16,000.00 Lillian Rich  Huntley Gordon
    Shadow of the Law $16,000.00 Clara Bow Forrest Stanley
    The Romance of a Million Dollars $16,000.00 Alyce Mills  Glenn Hunter 
    Pleasures of the Rich $15,250.00 Helene Chadwick  Jack Mulhall
    The Arizona Sweepstakes $15,067.00 Helen Lynch Hoot Gibson 
    Secret Spring $15,000.00 Huguette Duflos Maurice Lehmann
    A Man Four-Square $14,775.00 Marion Harlan Buck Jones
    A Six Shootin’ Romance $14,711.00 Olive Hasbrouck Jack Hoxie
    The Truthful Sex $14,700.00 Mae Busch  Huntley Gordon 
    The Last Frontier $14,633.00 Marguerite De La Motte  William Boyd 
    In Borrowed Plumes $14,500.00 Marjorie Daw  Wheeler Oakman 
    The Danger Girl(1916) $14,500.00 Gloria Swanson Bobby Vernon 
    The Desert’s Toll $14,200.00 Kathleen Key  Francis McDonald
    Obey the Law $14,100.00 Eugenia Gilbert Bert Lytell
    Lone Hand Saunders $13,308.00 Bess Flowers Fred Thomson 
    Raggedy Rose $13,000.00 Carl Miller  Mabel Normand
    The Golden Cocoon $12,836.00 Helene Chadwick Huntley Gordon
    The College Boob $12,800.00 Jean Arthur Maurice ‘Lefty’ Flynn
    The Unknown Cavalier $12,633.00 Kathleen Collins Ken Maynard 
    Silent Watcher(1924) $12,500.00 Bessie Love Glenn Hunter 
    White Mice $12,500.00 Jacqueline Logan  William Powell
    Flame of the Argentine $12,150.00 Evelyn Brent  Orville Caldwell 
    Hands Across the Border $12,117.00 Bess Flowers  Fred Thomson
    The Imposter $11,950.00 Evelyn Brent Carroll Nye
    Mile-a-Minute Man $11,750.00 Virginia Brown Faire William Fairbanks
    The Adorable Deceiver $11,600.00 Alberta Vaughn Daniel Makarenko
    Flaming Fury $11,500.00 Betty May  Charles Delaney
    Broken Hearts $11,446.00 Lila Lee Maurice Schwartz
    Christine of the Big Tops $11,050.00 Pauline Garon Cullen Landis
    Doubling With Danger $11,000.00 Ena Gregory  Richard Talmadge
    Miracle of Lourdes $11,000.00 Pierrette Lugand Georges Baconnet
    Race Wild $11,000.00 Eileen Percy Rex Lease
    Secret Orders $11,000.00 Evelyn Brent Harold Goodwin
    Up in the Air $11,000.00 animation animation
    Wings of the Storm $10,900.00 Virginia Brown Faire Reed Howes 
    The River’s End(1920) $10,550.00 Marjorie Daw  Lewis Stone
    Nomads of the North(1920) $10,300.00 Betty Blythe  Lon Chaney 
    A Man of Quantity $10,000.00 Ruth Dwyer George Walsh
    The Blue Streak $10,000.00 Louise Lorraine Richard Talmadge
    The Traffic Cop $9,800.00 Kathleen Myers  Maurice ‘Lefty’ Flynn 
    The Kick Off $9,750.00 Leila Hyams George Walsh
    Flames of Passion(1922) $9,700.00 Mae Marsh  C. Aubrey Smith 
    Devil’s Dice $9,500.00 Barbara Bedford  Robert Ellis
    Merry Cavalier $9,500.00 Charlotte Stevens  Richard Talmadge 

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  2. PART 7 OF 12
    Isle of Retribution $28,800.00 Lillian Rich  Robert Frazer
    Saturday Afternoon $28,000.00 Alice Ward Harry Langdon
    Ladies of Leisure $27,250.00 Elaine Hammerstein T. Roy Barnes 
    Why Girls Go Back Home $27,033.00 Patsy Ruth Miller Clive Brook
    I Do(1921) $27,000.00 Mildred Davis  Harold Lloyd 
    The Dixie Merchant $26,750.00 Madge Bellamy  Jack Mulhall
    The Outsider $26,500.00 Jacqueline Logan Lou Tellegen
    The Miracle of Life $26,200.00 Mae Busch Percy Marmont 
    Rainbow Riley $25,800.00 Brenda Bond Johnny Hines 
    Fine Feathers(1921) $25,000.00 Claire Whitney Eugene Pallette
    Rustling for Cupid $24,684.00 Anita Stewart  George O’Brien 
    When the Wife’s Away $24,500.00 Dorothy Revier George K. Arthur 
    Going Crooked $24,400.00 Bessie Love Oscar Shaw
    A Trip to Chinatown $24,200.00 Margaret Livingston  Earle Foxe
    Lew Tyler’s Wives $23,550.00 Ruth Clifford  Frank Mayo 
    Brooding Eyes $23,500.00 Ruth Clifford Lionel Barrymore 
    The Better Way $23,500.00 Dorothy Revier Ralph Ince 
    Sin Cargo $23,050.00 Shirley Mason  Robert Frazer 
    Alaskan Adventures $22,800.00 none Jack Robertson
    Lost at Sea $22,800.00 Jane Novak  Huntley Gordon
    Stepping Along $22,800.00 Mary Brian Johnny Hines 
    The Two-Gun Man $22,541.00 Olive Hasbrouck  Fred Thomson
    Melting Pot $22,500.00 Valentine Grant Walker Whiteside
    That Model from Paris $22,400.00 Marceline Day  Bert Lytell 
    Spangles $22,350.00 Marian Nixon  Pat O’Malley 
    The Conquering Power(1921) $22,300.00 Alice Terry Rudolph Valentino 
    The Runaway Express $22,175.00 Blanche Mehaffey  Jack Dougherty 
    Stop, Look and Listen $22,000.00 Dorothy Dwan  Larry Semon 
    Woman Power/Womanpower $21,833.00 Katherine Perry Ralph Graves
    A Poor Girl’s Romance $21,700.00 Gertrude Short Creighton Hale
    Morganson’s Finish $20,984.00 Anita Stewart Johnnie Walker
    There You Are $20,750.00 Edith Roberts Conrad Nagel
    Chip of the Flying U $20,600.00 Virginia Brown Faire  Hoot Gibson 
    Bachelor’s Brides $20,317.00 Elinor Fair  Rod La Rocque
    The Dice Woman $20,317.00 Priscilla Dean John Bowers
    The Tough Guy $20,233.00 Lola Todd  Fred Thomson
    The False Alarm $19,750.00 Dorothy Revier Ralph Lewis 
    The Fighting Buckaroo $19,366.00 Sally Long  Buck Jones 
    Brown Derby $19,200.00 Diana Kane Johnny Hines
    The Breed of the Sea/Greed of the Sea $19,125.00 Margaret Livingston Ralph Ince 
    The Midnight Kiss $19,000.00 Janet Gaynor Richard Walling
    Desert Valley $18,900.00 Virginia Brown Faire  Buck Jones
    Remember $18,800.00 Dorothy Phillips  Earl Metcalfe 
    The Old Soak $18,800.00 June Marlowe  Jean Hersholt
    Flames $18,600.00 Virginia Valli  Eugene O’Brien
    Lodge in Wilderness $18,450.00 Anita Stewart Edmund Burns
    The Speeding Venus $18,392.00 Priscilla Dean  Robert Frazer 
    The Phantom Bullet $18,200.00 Eileen Percy Hoot Gibson
    The Cowboy and The Countess $17,933.00 Helena D’Algy Buck Jones
    The Block Signal $17,800.00 Jean Arthur Ralph Lewis

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  3. PART 6 OF 12
    The Boy Friend $43,900.00 Marceline Day  John Harron 
    For Wives Only $43,850.00 Marie Prevost  Victor Varconi 
    College Days $43,550.00 Marceline Day Charles Delaney
    The Palace of Pleasure $43,333.00 Betty Compson  Edmund Lowe 
    The Marriage Clause $43,250.00 Billie Dove  Francis X. Bushman
    Men of Purpose $43,188.00 *(documentary) *
    The Honeymoon Express $42,350.00 Irene Rich  Willard Louis
    The Splendid Crime $42,267.00 Bebe Daniels  Neil Hamilton
    The King of the Turf $42,000.00 Patsy Ruth Miller  George Irving 
    The Return of Peter Grimm $40,450.00 Janet Gaynor  Alec B. Francis 
    The Great K & A Train Robbery $40,167.00 Dorothy Dwan Tom Mix 
    Meet the Prince $39,600.00 Marguerite De La Motte  Joseph Schildkraut 
    Dancing Days $39,250.00 Helene Chadwick Forrest Stanley
    Prisoners of the Storm $39,200.00 Peggy Montgomery  House Peters
    The Broadway Boob $39,000.00 Mildred Ryan  Glenn Hunter
    Laddie $38,700.00 Bess Flowers  John Bowers 
    Love’s Blindness $37,800.00 Pauline Starke  Antonio Moreno 
    Hard Boiled $37,467.00 Helene Chadwick  Tom Mix 
    The Passionate Quest $37,450.00 May McAvoy Willard Louis
    Black Paradise $37,267.00 Madge Bellamy Leslie Fenton 
    Whispering Wires $37,200.00 Anita Stewart Edmund Burns 
    Poker Faces $36,300.00 Laura La Plante Edward Everett Horton
    The Devil Horse $36,044.00 Gladys McConnell  Yakima Canutt 
    Watch Your Wife $35,900.00 Virginia Valli  Pat O’Malley 
    Exit Smiling $35,677.00 Beatrice Lillie  Jack Pickford
    Blarney $35,300.00 Paulette Duval Ralph Graves
    The Marriage Circle(1924) $34,702.00 Florence Vidor Monte Blue
    Her Second Chance $34,417.00 Anna Q. Nilsson  Huntley Gordon
    Red Dice $34,000.00 Marguerite De La Motte  Rod La Rocque
    The Beautiful Cheat $33,500.00 Laura La Plante  Alexander Carr
    The City $33,300.00 May Allison Robert Frazer
    The Sheik(1921) $33,300.00 Agnes Ayres  Rudolph Valentino
    The Lady of the Harem $33,100.00 Greta Nissen Ernest Torrence
    Pals of Paradise $32,400.00 Marguerite De La Motte  Rudolph Schildkraut 
    Winds of Chance $32,175.00 Anna Q. Nilsson Ben Lyon 
    The Love Thief $32,150.00 Greta Nissen Norman Kerry
    A Regular Scout $32,100.00 Olive Hasbrouck Fred Thomson
    Oh, Baby $32,032.00 Madge Kennedy ‘Little Billy’ Rhodes
    My Old Dutch $32,000.00 May McAvoy  Pat O’Malley
    Merry-Go-Round(1923) $30,862.00 Mary Philbin  Norman Kerry 
    30 Below Zero $30,800.00 Eva Novak  Buck Jones 
    Oh, What a Night $30,800.00 Edna Murphy Raymond McKee
    London $30,500.00 Dorothy Gish  John Manners
    Shipwrecked $30,425.00 Seena Owen Joseph Schildkraut 
    Rocking Moon $29,900.00 Laska Winter Lilyan Tashman 
    Money to Burn $29,700.00 Dorothy Devore  Malcolm McGregor
    More Pay – Less Work  $29,600.00 Mary Brian Albert Gran
    The Man in the Saddle $29,475.00 Fay Wray Hoot Gibson
    The Collegians/Collegians-serial $29,150.00 Dorothy Gulliver George J. Lewis
    The Great Deception $29,050.00 Aileen Pringle  Ben Lyon 

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  4. PART 5 OF 12
    My Own Pal $61,042.00 Olive Borden  Tom Mix 
    The Prince of Pilsen $60,451.00 Anita Stewart  George Sidney 
    Sunny Side Up $60,325.00 Vera Reynolds Edmund Burns
    Early to Wed $59,950.00 Katherine Perry  Matt Moore
    Sporting Lover $59,950.00 Barbara Bedford Conway Tearle
    The Brown Derby $59,950.00 Diana Kane  Johnny Hines 
    London $59,400.00 Dorothy Gish  John Manners 
    Her Honor, the Governor $59,109.00 Pauline Frederick  Carroll Nye 
    For Alimony Only $58,400.00 Leatrice Joy  Clive Brook
    Cat’s Pajamas $58,350.00 Betty Bronson  Ricardo Cortez 
    Under Western Skies $56,950.00 Anne Cornwall  Norman Kerry
    The Savage $56,800.00 May McAvoy Ben Lyon
    The Whole Town’s Talking $56,500.00 Virginia Lee Corbin  Edward Everett Horton
    Marriage License? $55,783.00 Alma Rubens  Walter McGrail 
    The Trap(1922) $55,676.00 Dagmar Godowsky  Lon Chaney 
    Corporal Kate $54,750.00 Vera Reynolds  Kenneth Thomson
    The Lucky Lady $54,750.00 Greta Nissen Lionel Barrymore
    Fig Leaves $54,650.00 Olive Borden George O’Brien
    The Silver Treasure $54,267.00 Helena D’Algy  George O’Brien 
    Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em $54,250.00 Evelyn Brent Lawrence Gray 
    The Mystery Club $54,175.00 Edith Roberts  Matt Moore 
    The Belle of Broadway $53,400.00 Betty Compson Herbert Rawlinson
    Across the Pacific $52,332.00 Jane Winton Monte Blue 
    Eve’s Leaves $52,050.00 Leatrice Joy William Boyd
    The Sea Wolf(1920) $52,000.00 Mabel Julienne Scott  Noah Beery 
    The Caveman $51,733.00 Marie Prevost Matt Moore
    The Country Beyond $51,700.00 Olive Borden  Ralph Graves
    Cruise of the Jasper B $51,350.00 Mildred Harris  Rod La Rocque 
    The Blue Eagle $51,325.00 Janet Gaynor George O’Brien
    The Combat $51,234.00 Wanda Hawley  House Peters
    Steel Preferred $51,192.00 Vera Reynolds  William Boyd 
    Broken Hearts of Hollywood $50,925.00 Patsy Ruth Miller Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
    The Johnstown Flood $50,675.00 Florence Gilbert George O’Brien
    Bride of the Storm $49,900.00 Dolores Costello  John Harron 
    The Shamrock Handicap $49,200.00 Janet Gaynor Leslie Fenton
    Whispering Smith $49,083.00 Lillian Rich H.B. Warner
    The Social Highwayman $49,070.00 Dorothy Devore John Patrick
    The Lily $48,800.00 Belle Bennett Ian Keith
    A Hero of the Big Snows $48,675.00 Alice Calhoun  Don Alvarado
    Almost a Lady $48,600.00 Marie Prevost  Harrison Ford 
    Mismates $48,583.00 Doris Kenyon  Warner Baxter 
    Hell’s Four Hundred $48,000.00 Margaret Livingston Harrison Ford 
    The Family Upstairs $47,650.00 Virginia Valli Allan Simpson
    The Runaway $47,632.00 Clara Bow Warner Baxter
    The Ice Flood $47,250.00 Viola Dana  Kenneth Harlan
    The Gay Deceiver $45,950.00 Marceline Day Lew Cody
    The Bells $45,600.00 Caroline Frances Cooke  Lionel Barrymore 
    The Road to Glory $45,517.00 May McAvoy  Leslie Fenton 
    Canyon of Lights $45,333.00 Dorothy Dwan  Tom Mix
    The Still Alarm $44,633.00 Helene Chadwick William Russell 
    Bertha, Sewing Machine Girl $44,600.00 Madge Bellamy  Allan Simpson

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  5. PART 4 OF 12
    Forever After $98,500.00 Mary Astor  Lloyd Hughes 
    The First Year $98,450.00 Katherine Perry Matt Moore
    Partners Again $98,400.00 Betty Jewel George Sidney
    Puppets $97,900.00 Gertrude Olmstead Milton Sills
    Young April $96,500.00 Bessie Love  Joseph Schildkraut
    Other Women’s Husbands $96,346.00 Marie Prevost Monte Blue
    Sandy $93,150.00 Madge Bellamy Leslie Fenton
    Silence $92,450.00 Vera Reynolds H.B. Warner 
    Desert Gold $90,900.00 Shirley Mason Neil Hamilton
    Sweet Rosie O’Grady $90,800.00 Shirley Mason  Cullen Landis 
    Man of Forest $90,450.00 Georgia Hale  Jack Holt
    Diplomacy $90,075.00 Blanche Sweet Neil Hamilton
    Private Izzy Murphy $89,654.00 Patsy Ruth Miller  George Jessel 
    Hell Bent for Heaven $88,433.00 Patsy Ruth Miller  John Harron 
    The Gorilla Hunt $86,429.00 *(documentary) *
    Everybody’s Acting $86,316.00 Betty Bronson Ford Sterling
    Volcano! $84,250.00 Bebe Daniels Ricardo Cortez
    Devil’s Island $83,424.00 Pauline Frederick  Richard Tucker
    Moana/Moana of the South Seas $83,350.00 Ta’avale Fa’amgase
    Fifth Avenue $82,850.00 Marguerite De La Motte Allan Forrest 
    Wild Oats Lane $81,750.00 Viola Dana Robert Agnew 
    Silken Shackles $80,857.00 Irene Rich Huntley Gordon
    Midnight Lovers $79,600.00 Anna Q. Nilsson Lewis Stone
    The Gilded Butterfly $78,000.00 Alma Rubens  Bert Lytell 
    Her Big Night $77,600.00 Laura La Plante Einar Hanson 
    The Yankee Señor $77,025.00 Olive Borden Tom Mix 
    Forlorn River $75,750.00 Arlette Marchal  Jack Holt
    My Official Wife $73,850.00 Irene Rich  Conway Tearle 
    The Canadian $73,600.00 Mona Palma Thomas Meighan
    Miss Nobody $73,050.00 Anna Q. Nilsson Walter Pidgeon 
    Paradise $72,000.00 Betty Bronson  Milton Sills 
    Born to the West $71,567.00 Margaret Morris  Jack Holt
    His Jazz Bride $70,600.00 Marie Prevost Matt Moore
    High Steppers $70,500.00 Mary Astor Lloyd Hughes
    War Paint $69,600.00 Pauline Starke  Tim McCoy
    Footloose Widows $69,410.00 Louise Fazenda Jason Robards, Sr.
    The Clinging Vine $69,150.00 Leatrice Joy Tom Moore
    The Sap/Perfect Sap $68,600.00 Mary McAllister Kenneth Harlan 
    Risky Business $68,250.00 Vera Reynolds  Kenneth Thomson
    Butterflies in the Rain $67,700.00 Laura La Plante James Kirkwood 
    The Crown of Lies $67,700.00 Pola Negri  Noah Beery
    Bigger than Barnum’s $67,436.00 Viola Dana Ralph Lewis
    Paris at Midnight $66,783.00 Jetta Goudal  Lionel Barrymore
    Her Man o’ War $66,325.00 Jetta Goudal William Boyd 
    Pals First $65,500.00 Dolores del Río  Lloyd Hughes 
    The Little Irish Girl $64,555.00 Dolores Costello John Harron 
    Tony Runs Wild $64,517.00 Jacqueline Logan  Tom Mix 
    Siberia $64,317.00 Alma Rubens Edmund Lowe 
    Too Much Money $62,608.00 Anna Q. Nilsson  Lewis Stone 
    Yellow Fingers $62,084.00 Olive Borden  Ralph Ince 
    The Far Cry $61,350.00 Blanche Sweet Jack Mulhall

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