Hap Hadley Biography

Charlie Chaplin City Lights

Alvan Cordell "Hap" Hadley (1895-1976) was an American artist specialising 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) and City Lights (1931), 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 5th December 1994, for $46,000.

He was also an actor, performing in the 1920-21 Broadway revue The Greenwich Village Follies of 1920 at the Shubert Theatre in New York City and the 1924 film Floodgates.

Some works by Hap Hadley are now in the public domain as the copyrights were not renewed, as was required by US law at the time. Please see our 'Copyright Rules Explained' for more information.

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