Johnny Get Your Hair Cut

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Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut lobby card.jpg
Lobby card.
Directed by B. Reeves Eason
Archie Mayo
Written byGerald Beaumont
Florence Ryerson
Ralph Spence
Starring Harry Carey
Cinematography Frank B. Good
Edited by Sam Zimbalist
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • January 15, 1927 (1927-01-15)
Running time
7 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Johnny Get Your Hair Cut is a 1927 silent American comedy film directed by B. Reeves Eason starring Jackie Coogan and featuring Harry Carey. [1] A print is preserved by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but is not publicly available. [2]

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Cast

Production

The film was seen by MGM as a way to transition Coogan from a child star to a more serious adult actor. To this end, the company had Coogan change his haircut from a Dutch bob. [3] Coogan's father hired Eason as director following his work on 1925's Ben-Hur. [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Progressive Silent Film List: Johnny Get Your Hair Cut". silentera.com. Retrieved October 4, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Johnny Get Your Hair Cut / Mattie Witting [motion picture]". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on October 14, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Timothy, Shary, ed. (2021). Cinemas of Boyhood - Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality. Berghahn Books. pp. 120–121, 131–132. ISBN   9781789209952.


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