1921 in film
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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
- 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
- The Three Musketeers, starring Douglas Fairbanks
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
- 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
- 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)