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Events

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

Top grossing films

# Way Down East - directed by D.W. Griffith # Over the Hill to the Poorhouse - directed by Harry F. Millarde

Movies released

Movies released in 1920 include:

Convict 13, a Buster Keaton
short
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem, How he Came into the World), 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
High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd
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
Neighbors
a Buster Keaton
short
One Week
, a Buster Keaton
short.
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
The Penalty, starring Lon Chaney
Pollyanna
, srarring Mary Pickford
The Saphead, starring Buster Keaton
The Scarecrow, a Buster Keaton
short
Way Down East
, starring Lillian Gish
Within Our Gates
, directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer

Short film series

Harold Lloyd
(1913-1921)
Charlie Chaplin
(1914-1923
Buster Keaton
(1917-1941)

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
)
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 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
August 22 - Ray Bradbury, writer
September 18 - Jack Warden
, actor
September 23 - Mickey Rooney
, actor
September 27 - William Conrad
, actor
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
December 29 - Viveca Lindfors
, actress (d. 1995
)
December 30 - Jack Lord
, actor (d. 1998
)
December 31 – Rex Allen
, American cowboy actor, singer (d. 1999)

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