Al Rockett Explained

Al Rockett, born Albert L. Rockett, was a movie producer. His 1924 film Abraham Lincoln, produced with his brother Ray Rockett, was a major production.^{[1] [2]} It won the Photoplay Medal of Honor for 1924 from Photoplay Magazine,^[3] the most prestigious American film award of the time. He was born in Vincennes, Indiana,^[4] and played piano in a nickelodeon theater for five years.^[5] He worked for First National Pictures and Fox Film Corporation.

Filmography

• Keeping Up with Lizzie (1921)^[6]
• Handle with Care (1922)
• Abraham Lincoln (1924)
• Subway Sadie (1926)
• The Girl from Coney Island (1926), also known as Just Another Blond
• Puppets (1926)
• The Patent Leather Kid (1927)
• An Affair of the Follies (1927)
• The Barker (1928)
• Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
• Wild Company (1930)
• High Society Blues (1930)
• The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
• Soup to Nuts, a Three Stooges film
• Their Mad Moment (1931)
• Business and Pleasure (1932)
• Shanghai Madness (1933)^[7]
• She Was a Lady (film) (1934)
• Hell in the Heavens (1934)
• Such Women Are Dangerous (1934)
• Lottery Lover (1935)

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Notes and References

1. Web site: American Cinematographer. October 6, 1922. ASC Holding Corporation. Google Books.
2. Web site: Vincennes Stars – Al and Ray Rockett. Boomer Magazine.
3. Web site: Awards for The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924). Internet Movie Database. 24 September 2013.
4. Web site: The American Magazine. October 6, 1924. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Google Books.
5. Book: Spears, Jack. The Civil War on the screen, and other essays. July 3, 1977. A. S. Barnes. 9780498017285. Google Books.
6. Web site: Rockett, Carpenter, Millican, Wise, Stevens, Selman, Ware, Abernathy, Rhodes Families, 1681-1981 and Seventy-six Connected Kins-men. John Franklin. Rockette. October 6, 1981. Gateway Press. Google Books.
7. Book: The Films of Fay Wray. Roy. Kinnard. Tony. Crnkovich. July 11, 2015. McFarland. 9781476604152. Google Books.
8. Web site: Al Rockett. https://web.archive.org/web/20191006152833/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba9566e58. dead. October 6, 2019. BFI.