Timelines for year 1921
Ethel Waters
She recorded her first two songs, "The New York Glide" and "At the New Jump Steady Ball," in 1921 on the Cardinal Record label. That same year, she was the first artist to record for Black Swan, W.C. Handy's record label. By the early 1930s, she had introduced fifty song hits.
Virginia Fox
Comedienne of early Mack Sennett silents. Between 1921 and 1923 partnered Buster Keaton in one- and two reel shorts.
Natacha Rambova
She thought the script for Rudolph Valentino's film The Sheik (1921) was trash but loved him enough to design his costumes for the film, paint a portrait of him in costume, and even appeared as an extra in the film.
Bebe Daniels
Her film The Speed Girl (1921) was made to capitalize on her ten-day jail sentence for multiple speeding tickets. The movie's poster shows her walking out of a jail cell.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Suffered poliomyelitis in 1921, and lost the ability to walk on his own. He wore heavy leg braces and when he appeared in public standing on his feet (which took a massive effort) he was usually supported by someone (most often his son).
Rosemary Theby
Harry and Rosemary's most successful film together was A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921) in which Harry played the title role opposite Rosemary's Morgan Le Fey.
Babe Ruth
Adopted Dorothy Ruth Pirone with first wife Helen in 1921. Decades later, she wrote a book, titled "My Dad, The Babe", claiming that she was Ruth's biological child by a woman named Juanita Jennings.
Lloyd Hughes
Lloyd Hughes was married to Gloria Hope on June 30, 1921; they remained married until his death. Donald Reid Hughes (their son) was born Oct. 21 (as was his dad) in 1926 Isabel Francies Hughes was born April 16, 1932
Paul Harvey
His father, Harry Aurandt, was a civilian working for the Tulsa Police Dept. He was killed during a robbery attempt while shooting rabbits in a rural area with a TPD detective on December 18, 1921.
George Arliss
The first actor to win an Oscar for a reprise role. Arliss originally played Benjamin Disraeli in the silent movie, Disraeli (1921). He won the Oscar for his reprisal of the role in the talkie remake, Disraeli (1929).
Rudolph Valentino
At the time of his death, Valentino was severely in debt, and his heirs could not afford a burial plot for him. June Mathis, friend and screenwriter of Rudy's hit films The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and Blood and Sand (1922), graciously agreed to temporarily loan him a space in her family crypt at Hollywood Park Cemetery so he could be interred upon his body's arrival in Los Angeles following a coast-to-coast funeral train ride from New York. Mathis died the following year and Valentino's body was moved into her husband's space. He is still interred there today as all memorial plans fell through during the depression.
He is responsible for bringing the Argentine Tango to America, first performing the famous dance in his film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and later in a successful American national dance tour with his wife, Natacha Rambova, who, like Valentino himself, was once a professional dancer.
Dorothy MacKaye
In 1921 she met Ziegfeld Follies song-and-dance man Ray Raymond while performing in "Blue Eyes". Raymond left his wife for her. They had a daughter, Valerie.
Spencer Tracy
Attended no fewer than six high schools: Wauwatosa (WI) High School; St. John's Cathedral School (Milwaukee); St. Mary's (near Topeka, Kansas); Rockhurst High School (Kansas City, Mo.) ; Marquette Academy (Milwaukee); WWI service; Northwestern Military and Naval Academy (Lake Geneva, WI); and West Division High School (Milwaukee), from which he graduated in 1921.
