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The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Films released in 1920 4 Short film series 5 Animated short film series 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Film Debuts

Events

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

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	Way Down East - directed by D.W. Griffith	$5,000,000
2.	Over the Hill to the Poorhouse - directed by Harry F. Millarde
3.	Shipwrecked Among Cannibals
4.	Pollyanna
5.	The Mark of Zorro
6.	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
7.	The Round-Up
8.	Double Speed
9.	Excuse My Dust

Films released in 1920

U.S.A. unless stated

• The $1,000,000 Reward
• Algol, starring Emil Jannings - (Germany)
• Anna Boleyn, directed by Ernst Lubitsch - (Germany)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wiene; starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover - (Germany)
• The Common Sin, starring Rod La Rocque and Nita Naldi
• The Copperhead, starring Lionel Barrymore and Doris Rankin
• Convict 13, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• The Devil's Pass Key, directed by Erich von Stroheim; starring Mae Busch and Maude George
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, directed by John S. Robertson; starring John Barrymore
• Erotikon, directed by Mauritz Stiller - (Sweden)
• 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 - (Germany)
• Haunted Spooks, starring Harold Lloyd
• Herr och fru Stockholm, starring Greta Garbo - (Sweden)
• High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd
• Huckleberry Finn, directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Lewis Sargent, Edythe Chapman, Martha Mattox
• If I Were King, directed by J. Gordon Edwards; starring William Farnum, Betty Ross Clarke & Fritz Leiber, Sr.
• The Jack-Knife Man, directed by King Vidor
• Judy of Rogue's Harbor, directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Mary Miles Minter, Fritzi Ridgeway & Theodore Roberts
• Karin Daughter of Ingmar (Karin Ingmarsdotter), directed by and starring Victor Sjostrom - (Sweden)
• Lady Rose's Daughter directed by Hugh Ford starring Elsie Ferguson
• The Last of the Mohicans, directed by Maurice Tourneur & Clarence Brown; starring Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford & Alan Roscoe
• Love, Honor, and Behave, starring George O'Hara and Marie Prevost
• The Mark of Zorro, directed by Fred Niblo; starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The Mollycoddle, directed by Victor Fleming; charring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery
• The Monastery of Sendomir (Klostret i Sendomir), directed by Victor Sjostrom - (Sweden)
• Neighbors, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• Nomads of the North, starring Lon Chaney and Lewis Stone
• Nurse Marjorie
• Old Lady 31, directed by John Ince & Sherry Harris; starring Emma Dunn w/ Henry Harmon, Carrie Clark Ward, Winifred Westover & Martha Mattox
• One Week, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• Outside the Law, directed by Tod Browning
• Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
• The Parson's Widow (Prästänkan), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Sweden)
• The Penalty, directed by Wallace Worsley; starring Lon Chaney
• Pollyanna, starring Mary Pickford -(film only mentioned in article)
• Romance, starring Doris Keane & Norman Trevor(refilmed later as a 1930 Greta Garbo talkie)
• The Saphead, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• Satan (Satanas), directed by F.W. Murnau - (Germany)
• The Scarecrow, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• Sex, directed by Fred Niblo
• Shipwrecked Among Cannibals documentary film
• Something to Think About, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Gloria Swanson and Monte Blue
• The Son of Tarzan
• The Soul of Youth
• Stolen Moments, starring Rudolph Valentino
• Suds, starring Mary Pickford
• Die Todeskarawane, starring Dora Gerson and Bela Lugosi - (Germany)
• Treasure Island, directed by Maurice Tourneur; starring Lon Chaney & Shirley Mason(as Jim)
• Way Down East, directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess
• Why Change Your Wife?, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan and Bebe Daniels
• Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer

Short film series

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

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1934)

Births

• January 20 - Federico Fellini, film director (d. 1993)
• January 20 - DeForest Kelley, actor (d. 1999)
• January 27 - John Box, production designer, four-time Oscar winner (d. 2005)
• January 30 - Delbert Mann, director (d. 2007)
• February 11 - Billy Halop, actor (d. 1976)
• February 26 - Tony Randall, actor (d. 2004)
• March 16 - Leo McKern, actor (d. 2002)
• April 1 - Toshirō 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 (d. 2010)
• 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 13 - Laraine Day, actress (d. 2007)
• 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 Montalbán, actor (d. 2009)
• 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)

Deaths

• February 4 Leo Delaney, 35, silent film actor
• February 11 Gaby Deslys 38, actress, dancer, singer
• February 17 Thomas Commerford veteran character actor (b. 1855)
• January 24, Hazel Neason(1891–1920) actress
• March 2 Harry Solter American actor
• 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 1 Eugene Gaudio 33 Italian born cinematographer(brother of Tony Gaudio)
• August 2 Ormer Locklear 29 American stunt flier.
• August 13 Gladys Field(1889–1920), actress (died in childbirth)
• September 5 Robert Harron 27 American actor
• September 10 Olive Thomas 25 American actress

Film Debuts

• Mary Astor
• Humphrey Bogart
• Charles Boyer
• Greta Garbo
• Nita Naldi
• Claude Rains
• Otis Skinner
• Cornelia Otis Skinner

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