1920 in film

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The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Films released in 1920 4 Short film series 5 Animated short film series 6 Births 7 Film Debuts 8 Notable deaths

[edit] Events

• November 27 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.

[edit] Top grossing films

1. Way Down East - directed by D.W. Griffith
2. Over the Hill to the Poorhouse - directed by Harry F. Millarde
3. Shipwrecked Among Cannibals
4. Polyanna
5. The Mark of Zorro
6. Double Speed
7. Excuse My Dust

[edit] Films released in 1920

• Algol, starring Emil Jannings
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover.
• Convict 13, a Buster Keaton short
• The Common Sin, starring Rod La Rocque and Nita Naldi
• The Girl in Number 29, directed by John Ford
• The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), starring and directed by Paul Wegener
• Die Todeskarawane, starring Dora Gerson and Bela Lugosi
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore
• Haunted Spooks, starring Harold Lloyd
• Herr och fru Stockholm, starring Greta Garbo
• High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd
• Huckleberry Finn
• The Last of the Mohicans, starring Wallace Beery
• Love, Honor, and Behave, starring George O'Hara and Marie Prevost
• The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The $1,000,000 Reward
• Neighbors a Buster Keaton short
• One Week, a Buster Keaton short
• Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
• The Penalty, starring Lon Chaney
• Pollyanna, starring Mary Pickford -(film only mentioned in article)
• The Saphead, starring Buster Keaton
• The Scarecrow, a Buster Keaton short

1. Shipwrecked Among Cannibals documentary film

• Stolen Moments, starring Rudolph Valentino
• Way Down East, starring Lillian Gish
• Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer

[edit] Short film series

• Harold Lloyd (1913-1951)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914-1960s
• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
• Koko the Clown (1919-1934)

[edit] Births

• January 20 - Federico Fellini, film director (d. 1993)
• January 20 - DeForest Kelley, actor (d. 1993)
• January 27 - John Box, production designer, four-time Oscar winner (d. 2005)
• January 30 - Delbert Mann, director
• February 11 - Billy Halop, actor (d. 1976)
• February 26 - Tony Randall, actor (d. 2004)
• March 16 - Leo McKern, actor (d. 2002)
• April 1 - Toshiro Mifune, actor (d. 1997)
• April 2 - Jack Webb, actor (d. 1982)
• May 11 - Denver Pyle, actor (d. 1997)
• May 16 - Martine Carol, actress (d. 1967)
• May 26 - Peggy Lee, singer, songwriter, actress (d. 2002)
• June 18 - Ian Carmichael, English stage, film and television actor
• June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, producer, visual effects artist
• August 6 - Ella Raines, actress (d. 1988)
• August 17 - Maureen O'Hara, actress
• August 18 - Shelley Winters, actress (d. 2006)
• August 22 - Ray Bradbury, writer
• September 18 - Jack Warden, actor (d. 2006)
• September 23 - Mickey Rooney, actor
• September 27 - William Conrad, actor (d. 1994)
• September 27 - Jayne Meadows, actress
• October 1 - Walter Matthau, actor (d. 2000)
• October 17 - Montgomery Clift, actor (d. 1966)
• October 18 - Melina Mercouri, actress (d. 1994)
• October 21 - Hy Averback, actor (d. 1997)
• October 22 - Mitzi Green, actress (d. 1969)
• October 27 - Nanette Fabray, actress
• November 2 - Ann Rutherford, actress
• November 10 - Jennifer Holt, actress (d. 1997)
• November 19 - Gene Tierney, actress (d. 1991)
• November 25 - Ricardo Montalban, actor
• November 30 - Virginia Mayo, actress (d. 2005)
• December 29 - Viveca Lindfors, actress (d. 1995)
• December 30 - Jack Lord, actor (d. 1998)
• December 31 – Rex Allen, American cowboy actor, singer (d. 1999)

[edit] Film Debuts

• Humphrey Bogart
• Claude Rains
• Otis Skinner
• Cornelia Otis Skinner

[edit] Notable deaths

• February 4 Leo Delaney, 35, silent film actor

• February 11 Gaby Deslys 38, actress

• April 25 Clarine Seymour 21 American actress

• May 22 Hal Reid 59 American actor & director(father of Wallace)

• June 14 Gabrielle Rejane 64 stage & film actress

• August 2 Ormer Locklear 29 American stunt flier.

• September 5 Robert Harron 27 American actor

• September 10 Olive Thomas 25 American actress