The Most Popular Attractions
| 1922 Robin Hood Orphans of the Storm Tess of the Storm Country Blood and Sand Oliver Twist Dr. Jack Smilin' Through One Exciting Night Foolish Wives Manslaughter |
1925 The Big Parade The Gold Rush The Freshman Don Q, Son of Zorro The Phantom of the Opera (tied with) The Merry Widow The Lost World (tied with) Charley's Aunt |
| 1923 The Covered Wagon The Ten Commandments The Hunchback of Notre Dame Safety Last Why Worry (tied with) Rosita |
1926 Ben-Hur What Price Glory? Beau Geste For Heaven's Sake (tied with) The Black Pirate (tied with) Son of the Sheik |
| 1924 The Iron Horse The Sea Hawk The Thief of Bagdad Hot Water (tied with) Girl Shy America |
1927 Wings The Jazz Singer King of Kings The Kid Brother The Gaucho Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Source:An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928, by Richard Koszarski
Top box office stars of 1924, according to a Film Daily poll of exhibitors:
Average weekly movie theatre attendance:
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The Price of the Picture: Directors' Salaries
From a confidential 1926 memo to Carl Laemmle from producer Paul Kohner.
Clarence Badger 1,500 weekly William Beaudine 1,750 weekly Monta Bell 25,000 per picture Frank Borzage 1,500 weekly Tod Browning 1,500 weekly Christy Cabanne 1,000 weekly James Cruze 50,000 per picture Alan Dwan 50,000 per picture George Fitzmaurice 50,000 per picture Victor Fleming 1,500 weekly John Ford 1,750 weekly Edmund Goulding 1,500 weekly Robert Z. Leonard 20,000 per picture Ernst Lubitsch 175,000 per picture Mickey Neilan 35,000 per picture Fred Niblo 2,500 weekly Victor Seastrom 2,500 weekly Malcolm St. Clair 2,000 weekly King Vidor 40,000 per picture Erich von Stroheim 100,000 per picture Raoul Walsh 1,500 weekly
Source:An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928, by Richard Koszarski
A very brief and not so thorough history of animation in the silent era
From the 1924 Film Daily Yearbook
What silent stars have their prints in Grauman's (Mann's) "Forecourt of the Stars?"
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