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Hell's Angels is a 1930 American pre-Code independent epic war film directed and produced by Howard Hughes and director of dialogue James Whale.Written by Harry Behn and Howard Estabrook and starring Ben Lyon, James Hall and Jean Harlow, it was released through United Artists.
He had success as an actor in the 1930 film Hell's Angels. The film was a major success and brought Jean Harlow to prominence, but Lyon's performance as a heroic World War I aviator was also highly regarded and was a personal friend of Howard Hughes. For the next decade he was constantly in demand, but his popularity began to wane by the early ...
Harlow and Ben Lyon in Hell's Angels (1930), her first major film appearance Harlow and Clark Gable in The Secret Six (1931) Hell's Angels premiered in Hollywood at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on May 27, 1930, and became the highest-grossing film of that year, besting even Greta Garbo's talkie debut in Anna Christie.
Hell Harbor: Henry King: Lupe Vélez, Jean Hersholt: Romantic drama: United Artists [133] Hell's Angels: Howard Hughes: Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, James Hall: War drama: United Artists [134] Hell's Heroes: William Wyler: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton: Western: Universal [135] Hell's Island: Edward Sloman: Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Dorothy ...
The following is an overview of 1930 in film, ... Howard Hughes' epic film Hell's Angels premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and features Jean Harlow ...
Hughes spent $3.5 million to make the flying film Hell's Angels (1930). [6]: 52, 126 Hell's Angels received one Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. He produced another hit, Scarface (1932), a production delayed by censors' concern over its violence. [6]: 128 The Outlaw premiered in 1943, but was not released nationally until 1946.
In 1930, the Howard Hughes film Hell's Angels showcased extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation, and it is believed that World War II groups that used that name based it on the film. [20] According to the Hells Angels' website, they are aware that there is an apostrophe missing in "Hells", but "... it is you who miss it. We don't". [26 ...
Fairbanks survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and began his career in film as a cameraman on silent movies such as John Barrymore's The Sea Beast (1926). This was followed by work on early sound productions such as Howard Hughes' film Hell's Angels (1930) in which he participated both as a biplane pilot and aerial cinematographer for the extensive World War I dogfight scenes.