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1920

Showing 41 works across all media from 1920

The Age of Innocence

1920 · 336 pages

Newland Archer, engaged to the right New York girl, falls for her cousin the Countess Olenska, back from a ruinous European marriage. Old New York moves against them without ever raising its voice.

★ 7.2

Crazy Blues

1920

Seventy-five thousand copies in two months, Perry Bradford's tune, and Smith's voice opening the record industry to Black audiences.

★ 6.8

Main Street

1920 · 898 pages

Carol Milford marries a doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, determined to civilize it. The town wins, and Lewis made Main Street a byword for everything narrow and self-satisfied in American life.

★ 6.1
SwaneeAl Jolson

Swanee

1920

Gershwin played it at a party, Jolson carried it into Sinbad, and it became Gershwin's biggest-selling song.

★ 4.2
1920 · Skopia