Hap Hadley was a much sought-after pen-and-ink illustrator who created movie, circus and show billboards including which 1928 Charlie Chaplin film?
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Hap Hadley Alvan Cordell "Hap" Hadley (March 16, 1895, Findlay, Illinois – August 4, 1976, Los Angeles, California) was an American artist specializing in pen and ink representations of popular subjects. He created posters for various films, including Buster Keaton's "The General" (1926) and Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus" (1928), as well as promotional posters for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and billboards for Roy Rogers. A movie poster of "The General" was sold by Christie's East on December 5, 1994, for $46,000.
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Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'KBE', '4': "} (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona "the Tramp" and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.
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Someone to Love (1928 film) Someone to Love is a 1928 American comedy silent film directed by F. Richard Jones and written by Ray Harris, Monte Brice, Keene Thompson, George Marion Jr. and Alice Duer Miller. The film stars Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Mary Brian, William Austin, Jack Oakie, James Kirkwood, Sr., Mary Alden and Frank Reicher. The film was released on December 1, 1928, by Paramount Pictures.
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The Spotlight (film) The Spotlight is a 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Frank Tuttle and written by Hope Loring, Herman J. Mankiewicz and Rita Weiman. The film stars Esther Ralston, Neil Hamilton, Nicholas Soussanin, Arlette Marchal and Arthur Housman. The film was released on November 19, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
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Why Men Work Why Men Work is a 1924 short comedy film featuring Charley Chase, directed by Leo McCarey The "Los Angeles Times " described it as "the adventures of an amateur news-reel photographer when he attempts to take some pictures of a visiting governor".
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Without Benefit of Clergy Without Benefit of Clergy is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Boris Karloff. It is based on the story by Rudyard Kipling. A print of the film still exists.
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Something Always Happens (1928 film) Something Always Happens is a 1928 American comedy silent film directed by Frank Tuttle and written by Raymond Cannon, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Florence Ryerson and Frank Tuttle. The film stars Esther Ralston, Neil Hamilton, Sôjin Kamiyama, Charles Sellon, Roscoe Karns, Lawrence Grant and Mischa Auer. The film was released on March 24, 1928, by Paramount Pictures.
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The Great White Way (1924 film) The Great White Way is a 1924 silent film comedy centered on the sport of boxing. It was directed by E. Mason Hopper. It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures. It was made with the cooperation of the New York City Fire Department. The film stars Oscar Shaw and Anita Stewart and is a lost film. It was remade twelve years later as "Cain and Mabel" with Marion Davies and Clark Gable.
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Caught in the Rain Caught in the Rain is a 1914 American comedy silent film starring Charlie Chaplin. This film was the first of many movies in which Chaplin both directed and played the lead. The short film was produced by Mack Sennett for Keystone Studios with a running time of 16 minutes.
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Hit of the Show Hit of the Show is a 1928 comedy film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Joe E. Brown, Gertrude Olmstead and William Bailey. It was originally released as a silent, with some sound added to later versions.
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Love at First Sight (1929 film) Love at First Sight is a 1929 American musical comedy film directed by Edgar Lewis and starring Norman Foster, Suzanne Keener and Doris Rankin.
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Odds On (1928 film) Odds On is a 1928 Australian silent film starring Arthur Tauchert set in the world of horse racing. It was the first film as director from noted cinematographer Arthur Higgins.
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My Man (1928 film) My Man (1928) is a black and white part-talkie American comedy-drama musical film from Warner Bros. starring Fannie Brice and featuring Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. It was Fannie Brice's feature film debut at the age of 37. She was a star in the "Ziegfeld Follies" before she started acting in motion pictures. At the time this movie was made there were still some silent movies in production and being released. It would not be until 1929 that talking movies would completely take over, but Warner Bros. had completely stopped making silent movies and switched to sound pictures by the end of that year, either part talking or full talking. Warners would also start making movies in color as well as sound movies.
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Midnight Madness (1928 film) Midnight Madness is a 1928 silent film drama directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Jacqueline Logan. It was produced by Cecil B. DeMille(of DeMille Pictures Corporation) and released through Pathé Exchange.
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The Viking (1928 film) The Viking (1928) was the first feature-length Technicolor film that featured a soundtrack, and the first film made in Technicolor's Process 3. It stars Pauline Starke, Donald Crisp and LeRoy Mason. The film is based on the novel "The Thrall of Leif the Lucky".
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Footpads Footpads is an 1895 British short silent drama film, directed by Robert W. Paul, featuring a top-hatted pedestrian against a rainy London backdrop, who is assaulted by three footpads and rescued by a passing policeman. The "atmospheric" film, "is chiefly of interest for its imaginative approach to background décor," where according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "some effort has been made towards establishing a sense of realism." Roland-François Lack of University College London points out that this painted backdrop looks like "a hybrid of Trafalgar Square, with its electric advertisement for Bovril, and Piccadilly Circus, with the advertisement for Mellin's Food", but has discovered that it in fact represents Ludgate Circus.
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Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey has become one of the world's most recognizable characters.
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The Vortex (film) The Vortex is a 1928 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Ivor Novello, Willette Kershaw and Simeon Stuart. It was an adaptation of the Noël Coward play "The Vortex" and was made by Gainsborough Studios. The film's sets were designed by Clifford Pember.
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The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film) The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra", directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney, Sr. in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he "loves" a star. The film remains most famous for Chaney's ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. The film was released on November 25, 1925.
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The Opry House The Opry House (1929), first released on March 28, 1929, was the fifth Mickey Mouse short to be released, the second of that year. It cast Mickey as the owner of a small theater (or opera house according to the title). Mickey performs a vaudeville show all by himself. Acts include his impersonation of a snake charmer, his dressing in drag and performing a belly dance, his caricature of a Hasidic Jew and, for the finale, a piano performance.
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Hot News Hot News (1928) is a silent film comedy produced and distributed by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, an amalgamation of Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures. Clarence Badger directed and Bebe Daniels starred.
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His New Profession His New Profession is a 1914 American comedy silent film made at the Keystone Studios and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film involves Chaplin taking care of a man in a wheelchair. It is also known as "The Good for Nothing".