Events in Film & TV
- Jan 4 Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
- Jan 29 Walt Disney starts work as an artist with KC Slide Co for $40 a week
- Apr 20 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
- Nov 1 Eugene O'Neill's drama "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Playhouse, NYC; runs for 204 performances
- Nov 21 Silent film "The Last of the Mohicans" released, adapted from James Fenimore Cooper's novel, starring Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford
- Nov 27 "The Mask of Zorro" directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York - 1st American superhero film
- Dec 20 Bob Hope becomes an American citizen
Weddings in Film & TV
- Mar 28 Actor Douglas Fairbanks (36) marries actress Mary Pickford (28)
- Jul 3 Film director John Ford (26) weds Mary Smith (25)
- Aug 5 Actor John Barrymore (38) marries second wife author and actress Blanche Oelrichs (29) (divorced 1928)
Divorces in Film & TV
- Mar 2 Actress Mary Pickford (27) divorces actor Owen Moore (33) after 9 years of marriage
Actors and Actresses Who Died in 1920
- Jan 20 Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler and strongman of the early 20th century, dies at 43
- Aug 2 Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (The Great Air Robbery), dies at 28
- Sep 5 Robert Harron, American actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), accidentally shot to death at 27