The Mad Racer
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The Mad Racer was a 1926
short comedy silent film
directed by Philadelphian director, Benjamin Stoloff
. The film starred Earle Foxe
and Florence Gilbert
.
1926 in film
-Events:*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33⅓ rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....
short comedy silent film
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
directed by Philadelphian director, Benjamin Stoloff
Benjamin Stoloff
Benjamin "Ben" Stoloff was an American film director and producer. He began his career as a short film comedy director and gradually moved into feature film directing and production later in his career. Stoloff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
. The film starred Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe was an American actor.-Background:Foxe was born Earl Aldrich Fox in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron. His older half sister was Ethel May Fox, a music teacher, born in Michigan to Charles Aldrich Fox and Katie Eldridge. Always very...
and Florence Gilbert
Florence Gilbert
Florence Gilbert was an American film actress of the silent 1920s. She supported actors William Fairbanks and Jack Hoxie....
.
Cast
- Earle FoxeEarle FoxeEarle Foxe was an American actor.-Background:Foxe was born Earl Aldrich Fox in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron. His older half sister was Ethel May Fox, a music teacher, born in Michigan to Charles Aldrich Fox and Katie Eldridge. Always very...
- Florence GilbertFlorence GilbertFlorence Gilbert was an American film actress of the silent 1920s. She supported actors William Fairbanks and Jack Hoxie....
- Jean ArthurJean ArthurJean Arthur was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. She remains arguably the epitome of the female screwball comedy actress. As James Harvey wrote in his recounting of the era, "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur...
- Jere Austin
- Frank BealFrank BealFrank Beal was an American actor and film director of the silent era. He appeared in 42 films between 1910 and 1933...
- Frank Cooley
- Lynn Cowan
- Lawford Davis
- Edna MarionEdna MarionEdna Marion, also known as Edna Marian, born Edna Marion Hannam was a vivacious silent motion picture actress who appeared in a number of Hal Roach short comedies.-Biography:...
- Patrick Rooney