Five year old Jackie Coogan stars with British comedian Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin’s first full length film, The Kid. In September, fans mob Chaplin when he arrives in London on his first visit to his native country in nine years.

Rudolph Valentino becomes the heartthrob of early twenties after his performance in The Sheik, a movie in which Valentino plays the starring role of Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, the romantic interest of English Lady Diana Mayo, played by actress Agnes Ayres. Women who see his silent movies swoon over Valentino, aka “The Latin Lover.”

A popular song of 1921 was My Little Margie, recorded by Eddie Cantor: