Johnny Get Your Hair Cut

Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
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Directed by	B. Reeves Eason; Archie Mayo
Written by	Gerald Beaumont; Florence Ryerson; Ralph Spence
Starring	Harry Carey
Cinematography	Frank B. Good
Edited by	Sam Zimbalist
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	January 15, 1927;
Running time	7 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Johnny Get Your Hair Cut is a 1927 silent American comedy film directed by B. Reeves Eason starring Jackie Coogan and featuring Harry Carey.^[1] A print is preserved by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but is not publicly available.^[2]

Cast

Jackie Coogan as Johnny O'Day
Harry Carey
James Corrigan as Pop Slocum
Maurice Costello as Baxter Ryan
Bobby Doyle as Bobby Dolin
Knute Erickson as Whip Evans
Pat Hartigan as Jiggs Bradley
Mattie Witting as Mother Slap

Production

The film was seen by MGM as a way to transition Coogan from a child star to a more serious adult actor. To this end, the company had Coogan change his haircut from a Dutch bob.^[3] Coogan's father hired Eason as director following his work on 1925's Ben-Hur.^[3]

References

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Johnny Get Your Hair Cut". silentera.com. Retrieved October 4, 2009.
^ "Johnny Get Your Hair Cut / Mattie Witting [motion picture]". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on October 14, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
^ ^a ^b Timothy, Shary, ed. (2021). Cinemas of Boyhood - Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality. Berghahn Books. pp. 120–121, 131–132. ISBN 9781789209952.