Hap Hadley

{{Short description|American artist and actor (1895–1976)}}

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{{Infobox artist

| name = "Hap" Hadley

| image = File:Hap Hadley, artist.jpg

| birth_name = Alvan Cordell Hadley

| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1895|3|16}}

| birth_place = Findlay, Illinois, US

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|03|16|1895|3|16|df=y}}

| death_place = New York City, New York, US

| nationality = American

| field = Painting, drawing, caricatures, posters

| caption = Hadley c. 1922

}}

Alvan Cordell "Hap" Hadley (March 16, 1895 – August 4, 1976) was an American artist specializing 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),{{cite book|editor=Grey Smith|title=Heritage Auctions Vintage Movie Poster Auction Catalog #7008, Dallas, TX|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B3QPNWdfHjUC&q=Hap+Hadley|accessdate=August 3, 2014|year=2009|publisher=Heritage Capital Corporation|isbn=9781599673776|page=144}}{{cite web |url=http://www.rockwell-center.org/news/august-4-3/ |title=August 4 |publisher=Rockwell Center for American visual studies, Norman Rockwell Museum |accessdate=August 3, 2014}} 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 December 5, 1994, for $46,000.{{cite web |url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/the-general-united-artists-1926-2439071-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=2439071&sid=3720b69a-6d56-40cd-ba73-1f1cbc6738fa |title=The General, United Artists, 1926 |publisher=Christie's |accessdate=August 3, 2014}} Poster sale details confirmed, but no attribution to Hadley on this page.

He was also an actor, performing in the 1920–21 Broadway revue The Greenwich Village Follies of 1920{{cite web |url=http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/58713/Hap-Hadley |title=Hap Hadley |publisher=playbillvault.com |accessdate=August 3, 2014}} at the Shubert Theatre in New York City and the 1924 film Floodgates.{{IMDb name|0352891}}

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| header = Gallery of posters by Hap Hadley

| image1 = City Lights (1931 theatrical poster - retouched).jpg

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| image2 = The Circus (1928) - Hap Hadley poster.jpg

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| image3 = The general movie poster.jpg

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