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1921 in film Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Top Grossing Films of the Year
3 Movies Released
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.
September 5 - At a San Francisco hotel party to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle mortally injures 25-year-old Virginia Rappe during a sexual encounter. Rappe sinks into a coma. A cover-up for Arbuckle is attempted, but the Deputy Coroner manages to get a police investigation started. Rumours fly that Arbuckle raped Rappe with a bottle.
December 4 - The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against actor and film director Roscoe Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.

Top Grossing Films of the Year

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Kid
Every Woman's Problem

Movies Released

Movies released in 1921 include:

Every Woman's Problem

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino
The Kid, starring Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan
Orphans of the Storm, starring Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish; directed by D.W. Griffith
The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino

Births

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
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, Ukranian film director (d. 2001)
May 31 - Alida Valli, actress
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)
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)

Deaths

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