Red Hair | |
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Directed by | Clarence G. Badger |
Written by | Agnes Brand Leahy |
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Based on | The Vicissitudes of Evangeline by Elinor Glyn |
Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky B. P. Schulberg |
Starring | Clara Bow Lane Chandler Jacqueline Gadsden William Austin |
Cinematography | Alfred Gilks |
Edited by | Doris Drought |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
Red Hair is a 1928 silent film starring Clara Bow and Lane Chandler, directed by Clarence G. Badger, based on a 1905 novel by Elinor Glyn, and released by Paramount Pictures. [1]
The film had one sequence filmed in Technicolor, and is now considered a lost film except for the color sequence at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and a few production stills.[ citation needed ]
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Jacqueline Gadsden was an American film actress during the silent era. A native of Southern California, she was born in Lompoc to Gerald F. and Jessie H. (Salter) Gadsden and is known to modern audiences as the wealthy, haughty other woman in the 1927 Clara Bow vehicle It. She married William Harry Dale (1900–1975) about 1924. She portrayed Lon Chaney's character's wife in Tod Browning's West of Zanzibar in 1928. In most films she was billed as Jacqueline Gadsdon but made two films under the name Jane Daly in 1929, her final year in film. She died in the San Diego County city of San Marcos a week after her 86th birthday.
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The Fleet's In is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and written by Monte Brice, George Marion Jr., and J. Walter Ruben. The film stars Clara Bow, James Hall, Jack Oakie, Bodil Rosing, Eddie Dunn, and Jean Laverty. The film was released on September 15, 1928, by Paramount Pictures.
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