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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.

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
Tol'able David
directed by Henry King and starring Richard Barthelmess

Short film series

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

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
)

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