Template:Year nav topic2 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.
Events[]
- November 27 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.
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 |
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
Short film series[]
- Harold Lloyd (1913-1951)
- Charlie Chaplin (1914-1960s)
- Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
Animated short film series[]
Film Debuts[]
- Humphrey Bogart
- Claude Rains
- Otis Skinner
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
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