Saturday, July 16, 2022

Buck Jones -- A Western Melodrama Featuring a Real Cowboy Actor -- July 16, 2022

Moving Picture World, 22-July-1922

In this trade ad, Fox touted the stars to be featured in its season of 1922-1923, including Tom Mix and Buck Jones. Fox was trying to change his name to Charles Jones.
    
Moving Picture World, 22-July-1922

A detail from the ad above. "No star has more quickly forged to the front than the nationally popular Charles Jones..."

Hot Springs New Era, 18-July-1922

Western Speed sounds like fun. Note that this newspaper ad call him "Buck Jones." 

Film Daily, 02-July-1922

Art Acord was a contemporary of Tom Mix and Buck Jones, who appeared in many silent films, but did not make the transition to talkies. In the Days of Buffalo Bill was his second starring western serial, after Winners of the West. Both serials are probably lost.

Moving Picture World, 08-July-1922

Jack Hoxie was a real cowboy and rodeo performer who became a big star in the early 1920s.


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