1921 in film

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of the Year 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Other Movies Released

Events

• September 5 - At a San Francisco hotel party to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle mortally injures 25-year-old Virginia Rappe during a sexual encounter. Rappe sinks into a coma. A cover-up for Arbuckle is attempted, but the Deputy Coroner manages to get a police investigation started. Rumours fly that Arbuckle raped Rappe with a bottle.
• December 4 - The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against actor and film director Roscoe Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.

1. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
2. The Kid, starring Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan
3. Every Woman's Problem

• February 11 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress.
• May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker.
• October 13 - Yves Montand, French singer and actor
• December 26 - Steve Allen, actor, composer, comedian, author

Other Movies Released