Ruggles of Red Gap is a 1935 comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, and ZaSu Pitts and featuring Roland Young and Leila Hyams. It was based on the best-selling 1915 novel by Harry Leon Wilson, adapted by Humphrey Pearson, with a screenplay by Walter DeLeon and Harlan Thompson. It is the story of a newly rich American couple from the West who win a British gentleman's gentleman in a poker game.
The following is an overview of 1927 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Leila Hyams was an American film and stage actress, model, and vaudevillian, who came from a show business family. Her relatively short film career began in 1924 during the era of silent films and ended in 1936,. She started out her career as a vaudevillian, stage performer and model, before embarking on a career in film, and although her career in this genre only lasted around twelve years, the blonde blue-eyed ingenue and leading lady appeared in more than 50 film roles and remained a press favourite, with numerous magazine covers.
Henry Arthur Barrows was an American actor who appeared in films from 1913 to 1936.
Pick a Star is a 1937 American musical comedy film starring Rosina Lawrence, Jack Haley, Patsy Kelly and Mischa Auer, directed by Edward Sedgwick, produced by Hal Roach, and cinematography by Norbert Brodine. The film, released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is mostly remembered today for two short scenes featuring Laurel and Hardy.
Headin' Home is a 1920 American silent biopic sports film directed by Lawrence C. Windom. It attempts to create a mythology surrounding the life of baseball player Babe Ruth.
Margaret Seddon was an American stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1951. Her most memorable role was perhaps as one of The Pixilated Sisters, a comedic stage act with actress Margaret McWade. In 1936, they reprised their roles in the film Mr Deeds Goes to Town. On Broadway, Seddon performed in Modern Marriage (1911) and The Things That Count (1913). She was born in Washington, D.C. and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Metropolitan Open is a golf tournament organized by the Metropolitan Golf Association, which covers New York City and its suburbs and surrounding districts in northern New Jersey and southwestern Connecticut. The tournament has been played annually since 1905, and is the third oldest "Open" golf tournament in the United States, after the U.S. Open (1895) and Western Open (1899). It was staged for the first time in 1905, thanks to the generosity of the Fox Hills Golf Club on Staten Island, which played the dual role of host and sponsor. It is held at member clubs in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. It was considered a PGA Tour event from 1916 to 1940. In fact, it was one of the "major" tournaments of this period. The 2009 winner was Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The Idle Rich is a 1929 American Pre-Code early sound comedy film produced and released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and directed by William C. deMille. It is based on the Broadway play White Collars by Edith Ellis, which had played at the Egan Theater in Los Angeles in 1924 before moving to the Cort Theatre in New York. The film is extant, and was released DVD in 2012 from WarnerArchive Collection.
John F. Hines was an American actor who had numerous film roles during the silent era, including many starring ones. He appeared in more than 50 films and numerous film shorts. But he did not succeed in transitioning well into talking pictures in the late 1920s, and had only six roles in the 1930s. He last appeared in a bit part in Magnificent Doll (1946).
Little Johnny Jones is a lost 1923 American comedy film directed by Johnny Hines and Arthur Rosson and written by Raymond L. Schrock based on the 1904 play Little Johnny Jones by George M. Cohan. The film stars Johnny Hines, Wyndham Standing, Margaret Seddon, Herbert Prior, Molly Malone, and George Webb. The film was released by Warner Bros. on August 19, 1923. It was remade by Warner Bros. and directed by cast member Mervyn LeRoy in 1929 as a musical film under the same name.
Silk Legs is a 1927 American comedy film directed by Arthur Rosson and written by Frances Agnew and Delos Sutherland. The film stars Madge Bellamy, James Hall, Joseph Cawthorn, Maude Fulton and Margaret Seddon. The film was released on December 18, 1927, by Fox Film Corporation.
Stepping Along is a lost 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines and starring Johnny Hines, Mary Brian and William Gaxton.
The Brown Derby is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines and starring Johnny Hines, Ruth Dwyer, and Edmund Breese. A young plumber inherits a brown Derby hat from his uncle, which is said to bring good luck to its owner. While wearing it fortune does seem to smile on him, although it is in fact a case of mistaken identity.
All Aboard is a 1927 American comedy film directed by Charles Hines and written by Matt Taylor. The film stars Johnny Hines, Edna Murphy, Dot Farley, Henry A. Barrows, Frank Hagney and Babe London. The film was released on May 1, 1927, by First National Pictures.
Ruth Dwyer was an American film actress. She had a number of starring roles in the silent era, most famously as Buster Keaton's leading lady in Seven Chances (1925). Dwyer mostly retired in 1928 and played a number of uncredited roles in sound films, but retired from the film business completely in the 1940s.
The Lost Limited is a 1927 American silent action film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Reed Howes, Ruth Dwyer and Henry A. Barrows.
Home Made is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines and starring Johnny Hines, Margaret Seddon and DeWitt Jennings.
Charles Hines (1892–1936) was an American actor and film director of the silent era. Born in Pennsylvania, he was the second of three brothers who had careers in the new film industry. He died young at the age of 43 in Los Angeles, California.
The Wright Idea is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines and starring Johnny Hines, Louise Lorraine and Edmund Breese.
