* The Blot, a 1921 silent film

His silent films usually centred on the Tramp's plight in poverty and his run-ins with the law, but also explored controversial topics, such as immigration ( The Immigrant, 1917 ), illegitimacy ( The Kid, 1921 ) and drug use ( Easy Street, 1917 ).

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

Their first movie was a silent film made in 1921 that was never released, and is believed to have been destroyed at the time.

However, during his own silent film career, the nearest Keaton had appeared in a " police comedy " was The Goat ( 1921 ) and Cops ( 1922 ).

The Apache and the Tango were scandalous dances for their elements of eroticism, the latter popularized in a 1921 silent film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, that made its lead actor, Rudolph Valentino, a sex symbol for his ability to Tango.

Scene from the 1921 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( film ) | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of the highest-grossing silent films.

Valentino first met Winifred Shaughnessy, known by her stage name, Natacha Rambova, an American silent film costume and set designer, art director, and protégée of Nazimova, on the set of Uncharted Seas in 1921.

In 1921, the Photokinema sound-on-disc system developed by Orlando Kellum was employed to add synchronized sound sequences to D. W. Griffith's failed silent film Dream Street.

* Nigel de Brulier in the silent films The Three Musketeers ( 1921 ) and The Iron Mask ( 1929 ), and talkie remakes The Three Musketeers ( 1935 ) and The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1939 ).

He started working in silent films for director Lois Weber in the early 1920s ; the most notable being The Blot in 1921.

Holloway made his film debut in a 1921 silent comedy called The Rotters.

* Demos ( film ), a 1921 silent film

* The Sheik ( film ), a 1921 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino

Other notable science fiction films of the silent era include The Impossible Voyage ( 1904 ), The Motorist ( 1906 ), Conquest of the Pole ( 1912 ), Himmelskibet ( 1918 ), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1919 ), L ' Huomo Meccanico ( 1921 ), Paris Qui Dort ( 1923 ), Aelita ( 1924 ), Luch Smerti ( 1925 ) and The Lost World ( 1925 ).

* Camille ( 1921 film ), a 1921 American silent film starring Alla Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino, Rex Cherryman and Patsy Ruth Miller

The first screen adaptation appears to have been a silent 1921 Dutch-UK co-production directed by Maurits Binger and Frank Richardson.

* Retribution ( 1921 film ), an Australian silent film by Armand Lionello

* a 1921 silent western written / produced by and starring William S. Hart

* Hayward Mack ( 1879 – 1921 ), American silent film actor

This story was filmed in 1921 as part of a series of silent films starring Eille Norwood as Holmes.

The earliest film version was Fox's 1921 silent version.

* The Return ( 1921 film ), a silent British film by Fred Paul

Here he met Alwine Glienke, a German woman from a Protestant family, whom he married in 1921.

As a result of their family relationship, Hayek became one of the first to read Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus when the book was published in its original German edition in 1921.

Hoover provided aid to the defeated German nation after the war, as well as relief to famine-stricken Bolshevik-controlled areas of Russia in 1921, despite the opposition of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and other Republicans.

Legend of the German crown offered to Henry, Hermann Vogel ( German illustrator ) | Hermann Vogel ( 1854 – 1921 )

* 1921 – Adolf von Thadden, German politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.

Bloomfield was Instructor in German at the University of Cincinnati, 1909 – 1910 ; Instructor in German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1910 – 1913 ; Assistant Professor of Comparative Philology and German, also University of Illinois, 1913 – 1921 ; Professor of German and Linguistics at the Ohio State University, 1921 – 1927 ; Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Chicago, 1927 – 1940 ; Sterling Professor of Linguistics at Yale University, 1940-1949.

* 1921 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician

* 1921 – Joseph Beuys, German artist ( d. 1986 )

* 1921 – Erich Fried, German author ( d. 1988 )

* 1921 – Sophie Scholl, German student, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany ( d. 1943 )

* 1921 – Inge Borkh, German soprano

* 1921 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist ( d. 1999 )

The term is a transliteration of the Ancient Greek (), meaning " imitator, pretender ", and was used in 1904, by the German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon, best known for his development of the engram theory of memory, in his work Die mnemischen Empfindungen in ihren Beziehungen zu den Originalempfindungen, translated into English in 1921 as The Mneme.

* 1921 – Harald Quandt, German industrialist, stepson of Joseph Goebbels ( d. 1967 )

The Kid ( 1921 film ) | The Kid ( 1921 ), with Jackie Coogan, combined comedy with drama and was Chaplin's first film to exceed an hour.

Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012 ) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.

* 2002 – George Nader, American film and TV actor ( b. 1921 )

She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.

A Movie poster # Lobby cards | lobby card for the film Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1921 film ) | Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1921

* 1921 – Jack Clayton, British film director ( d. 1995 )

* 1921 – Michel Boisrond, French film director ( d. 2002 )

* 1921 – Jack Valenti, American film executive, created the MPAA film rating system ( d. 2007 )

It was serialised from 1921 to 1928 and was adapted into the first wuxia film, The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple ( 1928 ).

* January 25 – Diana Barrymore, American stage & film actress ( b 1921 )

* The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( film ), a 1921 film starring Rudolph Valentino, based on a novel by Ibanez