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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.
Joey Marion McCreery Lewyn (April 8, 1902 – May 1, 1989), known professionally as Marion Mack, was an American film actress and screenwriter. Mack is best known for co-starring with Buster Keaton in the 1926 silent comedy film The General. After retiring from acting in 1928, she wrote several short screenplays and took up a career in real estate.
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
Lonely Orchid (traditional Chinese: 空谷蘭; simplified Chinese: 空谷兰; pinyin: Kōnggǔ lán), also known as Orchid in the Valley, is a 1926 silent family drama film directed by Zhang Shichuan for the Mingxing Film Company. Adapted from a British novel via several intermediary translations, it follows a married couple who are separated ...
English: The General is a 1926 American silent film starring Buster Keaton. Français : Le Mécano de la « General » (1926), film américain réalisé par Buster Keaton et Clyde Bruckman . Il s'agit du premier film à être sélectionné par la bibliothèque du Congrès pour son « importance culturelle, historique ou esthétique » et à ...
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 ...
The General is a 1926 American silent 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 .
Astor joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. In 1915, Astor gained a contract with Universal Studios. [4] Between then and 1962, she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915.