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1916
 
    
In his ground-breaking film Intolerance D.W. Griffith intercuts four parallel stories from different historical periods       
1917
 
   
Silent film comedian Harold Lloyd adopts the glasses and the straw hat that become his familiar props      
1917
 
    
Comedian Buster Keaton makes his first appearance in a film, The Butcher Boy       
1919
 
     
Lillian Gish stars as a Cockney girl in D.W. Griffith's inter-racial film romance Broken Blossoms, set in London's slums        
1919
 
     
The actors Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin establish United Artists with the director D.W. Griffith        
1920
 
    
Douglas Fairbanks makes the first of his swashbuckling adventure movies, The Mark of Zorro       
1920
 
    
The marriage of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks is a Hollywood sensation after a three-year affair       
1921
 
     
Italian sex symbol Rudolph Valentino has two sensational hits within the same year, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik        
1922
 
    
Robert J. Flaherty lives with the Inuit in the Arctic to make his dramatized documentary Nanook of the North       
1922
 
     
German film director Ernst Lubitsch moves to Hollywood, at the request of Mary Pickford