Contents

1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Movies released 4 Births 5 Deaths

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

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

Movies released

Movies released in 1922 include:

• Beyond the Rocks directed by Sam Wood and starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler directed by Fritz Lang
• Foolish Wives , directed by and starring 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), directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck
• Oliver Twist , starring Jackie Coogan
• Shadows directed by Tom Forman , starring Lon Chaney and Marguerite De La Motte
• The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Lewis Stone
• Robin Hood, directed by Allan Dwan and starring Douglas Fairbanks

Births

• January 7 - Vincent Gardenia, actor (d. 1992)
• January 13 - Albert Lamorisse , director (d. 1970)
• January 17 - Betty White, actress
• January 19 - Guy Madison, actor (d. 1996)
• January 21 - Paul Scofield, actor
• January 31 - Joanne Dru, actress (d. 1996)
• February 7 - Hattie Jacques, actress (d. 1980)
• February 9 - Kathryn Grayson, singer, actress
• February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, actor
• February 26 - Margaret Leighton, actress (d. 1976)
• March 5 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director (d. 1975)
• March 20 - Carl Reiner, actor, director
• March 21 - Russ Meyer, director, producer (d. 2004)
• April 5 - Gale Storm, singer, actress
• April 27 - Jack Klugman, actor
• May 10 - Nancy Walker, actress (d. 1992)
• May 27 - Christopher Lee, actor
• May 31 - Denholm Elliott, actor (d. 1992)
• June 1 - Joan Caulfield , actress (d. 1991)
• June 10 - Judy Garland, singer, actress (d. 1969)
• June 26 - Eleanor Parker, actress
• July 26 - Blake Edwards, director
• August 8 - Rory Calhoun, actor (d. 1999)
• August 8 - Esther Williams, swimmer, actress
• September 1 - Vittorio Gassmann, actor, director (d. 2000)
• September 1 - Yvonne De Carlo, actress
• September 15 - Jackie Cooper, actor, director
• September 29 - Lizabeth Scott, actress
• October 31 - Barbara Bel Geddes, actress
• November 12 - Kim Hunter, actress (d. 2002)
• December 4 - Gérard Philipe, actor (d. 1959)
• December 22 - Ruth Roman, actress (d. 1999)
• December 24 - Ava Gardner, actress (d. 1990)

Deaths

• February 22 - William Desmond Taylor, film director, victim of an unsolved and widely publicised murder which provoked a great scandal.