Events in Film & TV
- Feb 6 "The Kid", silent film starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released
- Mar 21 Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC
- Aug 5 KDKA Pittsburgh presents first radio broadcast of MLB; Pirates beat Phillies, 8-0; Harold Arlin first play-by-play broadcaster
- Sep 7 In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
- Sep 8 1st Miss America crowned in Atlantic City - Margaret Gorman (16) of Washington, D.C.
- Oct 21 "The Sheik", a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres in Los Angeles
- Oct 28 Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens
- Nov 7 Ed Wynn's musical revue "The Perfect Fool" premieres in NYC
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- Feb 25 Actor Jack Haley (22) weds Florence McFadden
- Mar 24 Comedian Oliver Hardy (29) marries actress Myrtle Reeves (24)
Actors and Actresses Who Died in 1921
- Apr 8 Ernst von Possart, German actor and theatre director (Bayerische Hoftheater), dies at 79
- Apr 18 Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, Dutch actor (Inkwartiering, Kloris & Roses), dies at 70
- May 22 Marie Wilton, Lady Bancroft, British Victorian theater manager, actress, and novelist, dies at about 82
- Oct 17 Katherine Griffith [Kiernan], American actress (Pollyanna, Fast Company), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 45
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