1920 in film
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Events
- November 28 - The Mask of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. opens.
Top grossing films
- Way Down East
- Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
Movies released
Movies released in 1920 include:
- Convict 13, a Buster Keaton short.
- Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem, How he Came into the World), starring and directed by Paul Wegener
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore.
- Haunted Spooks, starring Harold Lloyd.
- High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd.
- The Last of the Mohicans, starring Wallace Beery.
- The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
- Neighbors a Buster Keaton short.
- One Week, a Buster Keaton short.
- Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
- The Penalty, starring Lon Chaney.
- Pollyanna, srarring Mary Pickford.
- The Saphead, starring Buster Keaton
- The Scarecrow, a Buster Keaton short.
- Way Down East, starring Lillian Gish
- Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux.
Births
- January 20 - Federico Fellini, film director (d. 1993)
- January 20 - DeForest Kelley, actor (d. 1993)
- February 11 - Billy Halop, actor (d. 1976)
- February 26 - Tony Randall, actor (d. 2004)
- March 16 - Leo McKern, actor (d. 2002)
- April 1 - Toshiro Mifune, actor (d. 1997)
- April 2 - Jack Webb, actor (d. 1982)
- May 11 - Denver Pyle, actor (d. 1997)
- May 16 - Martine Carol, actress (d. 1967)
- May 26 - Peggy Lee, singer, songwriter, actress (d. 2002)
- June 29 - Ray Harryhausen, producer, visual effects artist
- August 6 - Ella Raines, actress (d. 1988)
- August 17 - Maureen O'Hara, actress
- August 18 - Shelley Winters, actress
- August 22 - Ray Bradbury, writer
- September 18 - Jack Warden, actor
- September 23 - Mickey Rooney, actor
- September 27 - William Conrad, actor
- September 27 - Jayne Meadows, actress
- October 1 - Walter Matthau, actor (d. 2000)
- October 17 - Montgomery Clift, actor (d. 1966)
- October 18 - Melina Mercouri, actress (d. 1994)
- October 21 - Hy Averback, actor (d. 1997)
- October 22 - Mitzi Green, actress (d. 1969)
- October 27 - Nanette Fabray, actress
- November 2 - Ann Rutherford, actress
- November 19 - Gene Tierney, actress (d. 1991)
- November 25 - Ricardo Montalban, actor
- November 30 - Virginia Mayo, actress
- December 29 - Viveca Lindfors, actress (d. 1995)
- December 30 - Jack Lord, actor (d. 1998)
- December 31 – Rex Allen, American cowboy actor, singer (d. 1999)
Deaths
- September 10 - Olive Thomas, actress
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