1921 in film

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Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Films released in 1921
4 Short film series
5 Animated short film series
6 Births
7 Deaths
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[edit] Events
February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.
September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount. A young actress, Virginia Rappe, becomes ill at the party and dies on September 9, of peritonitis secondary to a ruptured bladder. Arbuckle is accused of mortally injuring Rappe during an attempted rape, and is charged with murder. Rumours fly that Arbuckle raped Rappe with a bottle. The doctors who conducted the autopsy on Rappe found no evidence supporting a charge of rape, but were unable to rule out external force as the cause of Rappe's injury. The murder charge was later reduced to one of manslaughter at the preliminary hearing.
December 4 - The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against actor and film director Roscoe Arbuckle ends in a hung jury voting 9-2 for acquittal. A second later trail deadlocked 8-4 for conviction. The jury acquitted him after six minutes' deliberation and added a special statement to the verdict stating that acquittal was not enough to demonstrate the baselessness of the charges against Arbuckle.

[edit] Top grossing films
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Kid
Every Woman's Problem

[edit] Films released in 1921
$10,000 Under a Pillow, silent film directed by Frank Moser
'High Sign', The, directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
'Orace, silent film directed by Bannister Merwin
The Ace of Hearts, silent film directed by Wallace Worsley
Across the Divide, silent film directed by John Holloway
Action (film), silent film directed by John Ford
Adopting a Bear Cub, silent film directed by John Randolph Bray
The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick, directed by Thomas Bentley
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, directed by Maurice Elvey
The Adventures of Tarzan, directed by Robert F. Hill and Scott Sidney
The Advisor, directed by Jack White
Afraid of His Wife, directed by Scott Sidney
After Midnight, directed by Ralph Ince
After the Dough, directed by Herman C. Raymaker
After the Show, directed by William C. de Mille
After Your Own Heart, directed by George Marshall
The Alarm, directed by Robert F. Hill
Alfalfa Love, directed by Fred Hibbard
The Blot
Brewster's Millions
Brownie's Baby Doll, starring Diana Serra Cary
Brownie's Little Venus, starring Diana Serra Cary
Camille, starring Alla Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino, Rex Cherryman and Patsy Ruth Miller
The Clean Up, starring Diana Serra Cary
Conquering Power
Danton
The Death of Dracula
Disraeli
Every Woman's Problem
Fool's Paradise, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Conrad Nagel, Mildred Harris, Theodore Kosloff and Diana Serra Cary
Forever
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino
Get-Rich-Quick Peggy, starring Diana Serra Cary
The Goat
God's Crucible
Golfing, starring Diana Serra Cary
Hail the Woman
The Haunted Castle
The Haunted House
Her Circus Man, starring Diana Serra Cary
Humor Risk
The Idle Class
The Kid, starring Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan
The Kid's Pal, starring Diana Serra Cary
Little Lord Fauntleroy
A Lucky Dog, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
The Man Who Laughs
A Muddy Bride, starring Diana Serra Cary
Der müde Tod (Destiny)
Never Weaken
The Offenders
On Account, starring Diana Serra Cary
On with the Show, starring Diana Serra Cary
Orphans of the Storm, starring Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish; directed by D.W. Griffith
Pals, starring Diana Serra Cary
The Playhouse
Playmates, starring Diana Serra Cary
The Queen of Sheba
Sea Shore Shapes, starring Diana Serra Cary
The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino
The Silver Lining
Teddy's Goat, starring Diana Serra Cary
The Three Musketeers, starring Douglas Fairbanks
Third Class Male, starring Diana Serra Cary
Tol'able David directed by Henry King and starring Richard Barthelmess
A Week Off, starring Diana Serra Cary
Woman's Place

[edit] Short film series
Harold Lloyd (1913-1921)
Charlie Chaplin (1914-1923)
Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)

[edit] Animated short film series
Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1934)
Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
Koko the Clown (1919-1963)

[edit] Births
January 3 - John Russell, actor (d. 1991)
January 27 - Donna Reed, actress (d. 1986)
January 31 - Carol Channing, actress
January 31 - Mario Lanza, singer, actor (d. 1959)
February 8 - Lana Turner, actress (d. 1995)
February 11 - Eva Gabor, actress (d. 1995)
February 16 - Vera-Ellen, actress, dancer (d. 1981)
February 22 - Giulietta Masina, actress (d. 1994)
February 26 - Betty Hutton, actress (d. 2007)
March 3 - Diana Barrymore, actress (d. 1960)
March 4 - Joan Greenwood, actress (d. 1987)
March 8 - Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer
March 12 - Gordon MacRae, actor, singer (d. 1986)
March 25 - Simone Signoret, actress (d. 1985)
March 28 - Dirk Bogarde, actor (d. 1999)
April 10 - Chuck Connors, actor (d. 1992)
April 16 - Peter Ustinov, actor (d. 2004)
May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)
May 23 - Grigori Chukhrai, Ukrainian film director (d. 2001)
May 31 - Alida Valli, actress (d. 2006)
June 8 - Alexis Smith, actress (d. 1993)
June 21 - Jane Russell, actress
June 21 - Judy Holliday, actress (d. 1965)
July 3 - Susan Peters, actress (d. 1952)
July 23 - Robert Brown, actor (d. 2003)
August 3 - Marilyn Maxwell, actress (d. 1972)
September 8 - Harry Secombe, actor, singer (d. 2001)
September 30 - Deborah Kerr, actress
October 13 - Yves Montand, singer, actor (d. 1991)
November 3 - Charles Bronson, actor (d. 2003)
November 20 - Phyllis Thaxter, actress
November 22 - Rodney Dangerfield, actor, comedian (d. 2004)
November 23 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian actor and singer
December 4 - Deanna Durbin, actress
December 26 - Steve Allen, actor, composer, comedian, author (d. 2000)

[edit] Deaths