Top-earning actor
Thomas Meighan
≈ $520,000
$10,000 a week, annualizedEstimate
About $10 million in 2025 dollars
Paramount's biggest leading man of the early 1920s; his salary reached $10,000 a week.
The Jazz Age · 1920s
1922
Top-earning actress
Norma Talmadge
≈ $520,000
$10,000 a week, annualizedEstimate
About $10 million in 2025 dollars
Talmadge's films were produced by her husband, Joseph Schenck, and she became one of the best-paid actresses of the decade, at $10,000 a week.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1922
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales
- 1
Robin Hood
$2.1 million
- 2
Blood and Sand
$1.2 million
- 3
Manslaughter
$1.2 million
★ Starring Thomas Meighan