1920

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Template:Year nav topic2 Template:Yearsinfilm 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 Film Debuts 7 Notable deaths

[edit] Events

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Films released in 1920

• Algol, starring Emil Jannings
• Anna Boleyn, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover.
• Convict 13, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• The Common Sin, starring Rod La Rocque and Nita Naldi
• 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
• Die Todeskarawane, starring Dora Gerson and Bela Lugosi
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore
• Haunted Spooks, starring Harold Lloyd
• Herr och fru Stockholm, starring Greta Garbo
• High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd
• Huckleberry Finn
• 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
• The $1,000,000 Reward
• Neighbors, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• One Week, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
• The Penalty, starring Lon Chaney
• Pollyanna, starring Mary Pickford -(film only mentioned in article)
• The Saphead, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• The Scarecrow, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
• Shipwrecked Among Cannibals documentary film
• Stolen Moments, starring Rudolph Valentino
• Way Down East, starring Lillian Gish
• Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer

[edit] Short film series

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

[edit] Animated short film series

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

[edit] Film Debuts

• Humphrey Bogart
• Claude Rains
• Otis Skinner
• Cornelia Otis Skinner

[edit] Notable deaths

• February 4 - Leo Delaney
• February 11 - Gaby Deslys
• April 25 - Clarine Seymour
• May 22 - Hal Reid
• June 14 - Gabrielle Rejane
• August 2 - Ormer Locklear
• September 5 - Robert Harron
• September 10 - Olive Thomas