1921 in film

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Years in film: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924
Years in television: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924

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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

  1. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  2. The Kid
  3. Every Woman's Problem

[edit] Films released in 1921

[edit] Short film series

[edit] Animated short film series

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

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