1921 in film

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Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
2.	The Kid
3.	The Three Musketeers
4.	The Sheik
5.	Little Lord Fauntleroy
6.	The Love Light
7.	Every Woman's Problem
8.	Brewster's Millions
9.	White and Unmarried
10.	The Passion Flower
11.	The Wonderful Thing
12.	The Idle Class

Films released in 1921

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 - (U.K.)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, directed by Maurice Elvey - (U.K.)
• 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 (U.K.)
• 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
• 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
• 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 (U.K.)
• Sybil directed by Jack Denton (U.K.)
• 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

• 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

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

Births

• 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

• 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

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