Robert Elliott (actor, born 1879)
Richard Robert Elliott was an American character actor who appeared in 102 Hollywood films and television shows from 1916 to 1951.
Elliott, 1919
Lights of New York (1928 film)
Lights of New York is a 1928 American crime drama film starring Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Wheeler Oakman and Eugene Pallette, and directed by Bryan Foy. Filmed in the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system, it is the first all-talking full-length feature film, released by Warner Bros., who had introduced the first feature-length film with synchronized sound Don Juan, in 1926; and the first with spoken dialogue, The Jazz Singer, in 1927. The film, which cost $23,000 to produce, grossed over $1 million. The enthusiasm with which audiences greeted the talkies was so great that by the end of 1929, Hollywood was producing sound films exclusively.
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