date this film was actually released in US

March 1, 1920, full text of ad in LA Times, appearing at Grauman's Million Dollar Theater, Broadway at Third, Los Angeles:

To big men and brave women who love life, but "assuredly" not to weaklings and mollycoddles.
Adolph Zukor presents
John Barrymore
as the dual personality
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A terrible drama of a man's soul, staggering in its power, its immensity!
A Paramount-Artcraft Picture
Grauman's Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Kay, conductor
Jesse Crawford at the organ.



~ Native Angeleno