page_title: Hap Hadley
hierarchical_section_title: Hap Hadley
caption_attribution_description: English: Poster for The General, a 1926 American silent 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 film stars Buster Keaton who co-directed it with Clyde Bruckman.
context_page_description: Alvan Cordell "Hap" Hadley was an American artist specializing in pen and ink representations of popular subjects. He created posters for various films, including Buster Keaton's The General and Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, as well as promotional posters for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and billboards for Roy Rogers. A movie poster of The General was sold by Christie's East on December 5, 1994, for $46,000.
  He was also an actor, performing in the 1920-1921 Broadway revue The Greenwich Village Follies of 1920 at the Shubert Theatre in New York City and the 1924 film Floodgates.
context_section_description: Alvan Cordell "Hap" Hadley (March 16, 1895, Findlay, Illinois – August 4, 1976, Los Angeles, California) was an American artist specializing in pen and ink representations of popular subjects.  He created posters for various films, including Buster Keaton's The General (1926) and Charlie Chaplin's The Circus (1928), as well as promotional posters for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and billboards for Roy Rogers. A movie poster of The General was sold by Christie's East on December 5, 1994, for $46,000.
  He was also an actor, performing in the 1920-1921 Broadway revue The Greenwich Village Follies of 1920 at the Shubert Theatre in New York City and the 1924 film Floodgates.
caption: Poster for the movie The General by Hadley
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