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Genre
  
Drama, Romance

Story by
  
Adela Rogers St. Johns

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Marshall Neilan

Screenplay
  
Benjamin Glazer

Duration
  

The Skyrocket The Skyrocket Wikipedia

Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Release date
  
February 14, 1926

Based on
  
The Skyrocket  by Adela Rogers St. Johns

Writer
  
Benjamin Glazer (adaptation), Benjamin Glazer (screenplay), Adela Rogers St. Johns (novel)

Cast
  
Peggy Hopkins Joyce
(Sharon Kimm ),
Junior Coghlan
(Mickey Reid),
Owen Moore
(Mickey Reid),
Muriel McCormac
(Sharon Kimm ),
Gladys Brockwell
(Rose Kimm)

Similar movies
  
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924)

The Skyrocket is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by Marshall Neilan, and starring Peggy Hopkins Joyce. The film was based on the 1925 novel of the same name by Adela Rogers St. Johns and scripted by Benjamin Glazer. No prints of The Skyrocket are known to exist and the film is now presumed lost.

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Production background

Peggy Hopkins Joyce was a one-time Ziegfeld Follies showgirl who became a media figure in the late 1910s and early 1920s for dating, marrying and divorcing wealthy men, acquiring a sizable collection of expensive jewellery and furs and wearing fashionable clothes. The Skyrocket was Joyce's first full-length feature and was intended as a vehicle to launch her acting career as she was largely known only for her colorful personal life. The film's distributor, Associated Exhibitors, launched a massive publicity campaign to promote the film. While Joyce earned mainly positive reviews for her performance, the film barely earned back its budget in box office returns. She would appear in only one more film, International House (1933), before fading into obscurity.

Cast

  • Gladys Brockwell - Rose Kimm (prologue)
  • Charles West - Edward Kimm (prologue)
  • Muriel McCormac - Sharon Kimm as a girl (prologue)
  • Junior Coghlan - Mickey as a boy (prologue)
  • Peggy Hopkins Joyce - Sharon Kimm
  • Owen Moore - Mickey Reid
  • Gladys Hulette - Lucia Morgan
  • Paulette Duval - Mildred Rideout
  • Lilyan Tashman - Ruby Wright
  • Earle Williams - William Dvorak
  • Bernard Randall - Sam Hertzfelt
  • Sammy Cohen - Morris Pincus
  • Bull Montana - Film Comedian
  • Arnold Gray - Stanley Craig
  • Ben Hall - Peter Stanton
  • Nick Dandau - Vladmir Strogin
  • Hank Mann - Comedy Producer
  • Joan Standing - Sharon's Secretary
  • Eugenie Besserer - Wardrobe Mistress
  • Edward Dillon - the Comedy Director
  • Hank Mann - the Comedy Producer
  • References

    The Skyrocket Wikipedia
    The Skyrocket IMDb