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Top grossing films (U.S.) [link]

Films released in 1921 [link]

U.S.A. unless stated

• $10,000 Under a Pillow, silent film directed by Frank Moser
• The Ace of Hearts, silent film directed by Wallace Worsley
• Across the Divide, silent film directed by John Holloway
• Action, silent film directed by John Ford;, starring Hoot Gibson
• Adopting a Bear Cub, silent film directed by John Randolph Bray
• The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick, directed by Thomas Bentley - (Britain)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, directed by Maurice Elvey - (Britain)
• The Adventures of Tarzan, directed by Robert F. Hill and Scott Sidney
• The Advisor, directed by Jack White
• The Affairs of Anatol, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Gloria Swanson and Wallace Reid
• Afraid of His Wife, directed by Scott Sidney
• After Midnight, directed by Ralph Ince
• After the Dough, directed by Herman C. Raymaker
• After the Show, directed by William C. de Mille
• After Your Own Heart, directed by George Marshall
• The Alarm, directed by Robert F. Hill
• Alfalfa Love, directed by Fred Hibbard
• Die Bergkatze - (Germany)
• The Blot, directed by Lois Weber; starring Claire Windsor
• Brewster's Millions, starring Fatty Arbuckle
• Brownie's Little Venus, starring Diana Serra Cary
• Bullets or Ballots, the film debut of Mary Astor
• Camille, starring Alla Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino, Rex Cherryman and Patsy Ruth Miller
• The Clean Up, starring Diana Serra Cary
• The Conquering Power
• Danton
• Destiny (Der müde Tod), directed by Fritz Lang - (Germany)
• Disraeli directed by Henry Kolker, starring George Arliss
• Dracula's Death
• Eldorado
• Every Woman's Problem
• Experience, directed by George Fitzmaurice; starring Richard Barthelmess and Lilyan Tashman
• The Fire Eater
• Fool's Paradise, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Conrad Nagel, Mildred Harris, Theodore Kosloff and Diana Serra Cary
• Forever
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, directed by Rex Ingram; starring Rudolph Valentino
• Get-Rich-Quick Peggy, starring Diana Serra Cary
• The Goat
• God's Crucible
• Golfing, starring Diana Serra Cary
• The Gunsaulus Mystery, directed by Oscar Micheaux
• Hail the Woman
• The Haunted Castle
• The Haunted House
• The High Sign, directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
• Humor Risk
• The Idle Class
• Jánošík, starring Theodor Pištěk - (Czechoslovakia)
• Jim the Penman (1921 film), starring Lionel Barrymore
• The Kid, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin with Edna Purviance and Jackie Coogan
• The Kid's Pal, starring Diana Serra Cary
• Land of My Fathers directed by Fred Rains and starring John Stuart and Yvonne Thomas - (Britain)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy, starring Mary Pickford
• The Lotus Eater, starring John Barrymore and Colleen Moore
• The Love Light, starring Mary Pickford
• The Lucky Dog, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• The Man Who Laughs
• The Mechanical Man, directed by Andre Deed
• Miss Lulu Bett, directed by William C. DeMille
• A Muddy Bride, starring Diana Serra Cary
• My Boy
• Never Weaken
• The Nut
• The Offenders
• On with the Show, starring Diana Serra Cary
• 'Orace, silent film directed by Bannister Merwin
• Orphans of the Storm, directed by D.W. Griffith; starring Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish
• The Passion Flower, starring Norma Talmadge
• Peck's Bad Boy
• The Phantom Carriage (Korkarlen), directed by and starring Victor Sjostrom - (Sweden)
• The Playhouse
• Playmates, starring Diana Serra Cary
• The Queen of Sheba
• A Sailor-Made Man, starring Harold Lloyd
• Sentimental Tommy, directed by George Fitzmaurice; starring Gareth Hughes
• Seven Years Bad Luck, directed by and starring Max Linder
• The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino
• Siciliana − Princess Kanningsten's Necklace, directed by Imrich Darányi - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Silver Lining
• Squibs directed by George Pearson and starring Betty Balfour - (Britain)
• Sybil directed by Jack Denton - (Britain)
• Third Class Male, starring Diana Serra Cary
• The Three Musketeers, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• Through the Back Door
• Tol'able David directed by Henry King; starring Richard Barthelmess
• A Week Off, starring Diana Serra Cary
• White and Unmarried
• Woman's Place
• The Wonderful Thing, starring Norma Talmadge

Comedy film series [link]

• Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
• Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1945)

Animated short film series [link]

• Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1934)
• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1963)

Births [link]

• January 3 - John Russell, actor (died 1991)
• January 27 - Donna Reed, actress (died 1986)
• January 31 - Carol Channing, actress
• January 31 - Mario Lanza, singer, actor (died 1959)
• February 8 - Lana Turner, actress (died 1995)
• February 16 - Vera-Ellen, actress, dancer (died 1981)
• February 22 - Giulietta Masina, actress (died 1994)
• February 26 - Betty Hutton, actress (died 2007)
• March 3 - Diana Barrymore, actress (died 1960)
• March 4 - Joan Greenwood, actress (died 1987)
• March 8 - Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer (died 2008)
• March 12 - Gordon MacRae, actor, singer (died 1986)
• March 25 - Simone Signoret, actress (died 1985)
• March 28 - Dirk Bogarde, actor (died 1999)
• April 10 - Chuck Connors, actor (died 1992)
• April 16 - Peter Ustinov, actor (died 2004)
• May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (died 1992)
• May 23 - Grigori Chukhrai, Ukrainian film director (died 2001)
• May 31 - Alida Valli, actress (died 2006)
• June 8 - Alexis Smith, actress (died 1993)
• June 21 - Jane Russell, actress (died 2011)
• June 21 - Judy Holliday, actress (died 1965)
• July 3 - Susan Peters, actress (died 1952)
• July 23 - Robert Brown, actor (died 2003)
• August 3 - Marilyn Maxwell, actress (died 1972)
• September 8 - Harry Secombe, actor, singer (died 2001)
• September 30 - Deborah Kerr, actress (died 2007)
• October 13 - Yves Montand, singer, actor (died 1991)
• November 3 - Charles Bronson, actor (died 2003)
• November 5 - Moritz Yomtov, screenwriter (died 1992)
• November 20 - Phyllis Thaxter, actress
• November 22 - Rodney Dangerfield, actor, comedian (died 2004)
• November 23 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian actor and singer
• December 4 - Deanna Durbin, actress
• December 26 - Steve Allen, actor, composer, comedian, author (died 2000)

Deaths [link]

• June 20 - George Loane Tucker, silent film actor and director
• September 9 - Virginia Rappe, film actress
• September 17 - Van Dyke Brooke, veteran film actor

Film debuts [link]

• George Arliss
• Basil Rathbone
• Carole Lombard
• Fredric March

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