Al Rockett

Al Rockett, born Albert L. Rockett, was a movie producer.[1] His 1924 film Abraham Lincoln, produced with his brother Ray Rockett, was a major production.[2][3] It won the Photoplay Medal of Honor for 1924 from Photoplay Magazine,[4] the most prestigious American film award of the time. He was born in Vincennes, Indiana,[5] and played piano in a nickelodeon theater for five years.[6] He worked for First National Pictures and Fox Film Corporation.

Filmography

• Keeping Up With Lizzie (1921)[1]
• 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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References

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