Johnny Get Your Hair Cut Explained

Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
Director:	B. Reeves Eason Archie Mayo
Starring:	Harry Carey
Cinematography:	Frank B. Good
Editing:	Sam Zimbalist
Distributor:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Runtime:	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.

See also

• Harry Carey filmography
• Jackie Coogan filmography

External links

• • • Stills at silenthollywood.com
• Stills at classicmoviekids.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Progressive Silent Film List: Johnny Get Your Hair Cut . October 4, 2009. silentera.com.
2. Web site: Johnny Get Your Hair Cut / Mattie Witting [motion picture] ]. https://web.archive.org/web/20171014035559/http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2746/default.html . October 14, 2017 . May 18, 2023 . Library of Congress.
3. Book: Cinemas of Boyhood - Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality . Berghahn Books . 2021 . 9781789209952 . Timothy . Shary . 120–121, 131–132 . en.