M’LISS – Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan

M’Liss (1918)
Direction: Marshall Neilan
Screenplay: Frances Marion; from Bret Harte’s story
Cast: Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Tully Marshall, Charles Ogle, Monte Blue, Winifred Greenwood
 

Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan in M’Liss
 

Directed by Marshall Neilan and written by Frances Marion – two frequent Mary Pickford collaborators — M’Liss is one of Pickford’s very best films. In this comedy-drama, Pickford plays a spirited and unruly mountain girl, that’s the M’Liss of the title, who falls in love with the new schoolteacher (Thomas Meighan) — who is later falsely accused of murder.
Pickford, by then already a superstar, gives a sterling performance; she is ably supported by (future star) Thomas Meighan as the schoolteacher, as well as a fine collection of character actors including [...]

by James Bazen | November 2, 2009   
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Best Films – 1915

In The Italian, George Beban plays an Italian immigrant whose dreams of riches in America quickly turn into a never-ending nightmare of poverty and despair.
 
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The Italian
d: Reginald Barker; scr: Thomas H. Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan
Little Pal
d: James Kirkwood; scr: Marshall Neilan
 
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Carmen
d: Cecil B. DeMille; scr: William C. de Mille
 
ACTOR
George Beban
The Italian
 

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ACTRESS
Theda Bara
A Fool There Was
Geraldine Farrar
Carmen
Lillian Gish
Enoch Arden
Mary Pickford
Little Pal
 
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Clara Williams
The Italian
 
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by Andre Soares | April 1, 2009   
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