Red Hair (film)

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Red Hair
Red Hair theatrical poster.jpg
1928 theatrical poster
Directed by Clarence G. Badger
Written by Agnes Brand Leahy
Screenplay by
Based onThe 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
Release date
  • March 10, 1928 (1928-03-10)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited 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]

Contents

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 ]

Plot

A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also happen to be the guardians of a wealthy young man to whom she is attracted.

Cast

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References

  1. Hall, Mordaunt (March 26, 1928). "THE SCREEN; An Imaginative Crook". The New York Times .