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The General is a 1926 American silent Western slapstick romantic action comedy film released by United Artists. It was inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War. The story was adapted from the 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.
It opened in 1926 as the Keith-Albee Palace and featured live vaudeville along with silent feature films, an orchestra and "Miss Buckeye", a Style 260 3/16 Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ. [ 2 ] The dressing room tower in the backstage area was designed as a small hotel, complete with a "front desk", where performers picked up their room ...
Title Director Featured Cast Genre Note Bachelor Brides: William K. Howard: Rod La Rocque, Eulalie Jensen: Romantic comedy: PDC [1]: Bad Man's Bluff: Alan James: Jay Wilsey, Molly Malone
December 5 – The 1925 Soviet film Battleship Potemkin premieres in the United States, at the Biltmore Theatre in Manhattan. [8] Theodore W. Case and E. I. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation. The Fox-Case Corp. is formed in an effort to exploit the system, which is given the name ...
Lee family (Singapore), Singaporean political family; Lee-Hamblin family, U.S. political family; Leonard Lee (1938–2016), Canadian entrepreneur; Leonard Leroy Lee (born 1933), birthname of American actor Robert Fuller; Leonidas Lee (1860–1912), Major League Baseball player in 1877; Lettice Lee (1731–1776), colonial American socialite
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May 10 – Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American film personality, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter (d. 2004) May 11 – Caesar Trunzo, U.S. soldier and politician (d. 2013) May 12 – Earl Dewitt Hutto, American politician (d. 2020) May 18 – Douglas Henry, American politician (d. 2017)
Take It from Me is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny, Blanche Mehaffey, and Lee Moran. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Cast