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A shadowy figure in the early American Film industry, former vaudevillian Al Alt (aka Alexander Alt) headed his own low-budget organization, the Union Film Company, which produced comedies starring Alt and Helen Howell. The company went under in the early 1920s after only a few years in existence and, in late 1924, Alt joined the low-budget Stern brothers, Julius and Abe, whose "Century Comedies" at the time also featured Wanda Wiley, Edna Marion, and Eddie Gordon -- hardly the greatest names in the industry. By the early 1930s, Alt had moved away from comedy and become a supervising producer with Poverty Row company Showmen's Pictures, among whose efforts were such bottom-of-the-barrel fare as Public Stenographer (1934), starring Lola Lane and buxom Esther Muir; and The Moth (1934), a melodrama featuring waning silent-screen personality Sally O'Neil. Al Alt disappeared from the scene with the demise of Showmen's Pictures in 1935.