Theodore Roberts Articles
Mary Pickford's M'LISS Screening at Pickford Institute
Theodore Roberts, Mary Pickford in Marshall Neilan's M'Liss; smaller photo: Joseph Yranski Mary Pickford was the definition of Movie Superstar from the early 1910s to the late 1920s. So popular and so powerful was Pickford that she, along with Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith, founded United Artists so as to have fuller artistic and financial control over her cinematic endeavors. Several years later, [...]
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 [...]
Best Films – 1918: Cecil B. DeMille’s OLD WIVES FOR NEW, Elliott Dexter, Florence Vidor
BEST FILM Old Wives for New d: Cecil B. DeMille; scr: Jeanie Macpherson BEST ACTOR Elliott Dexter Old Wives for New BEST ACTRESS Ossi Oswalda Ich möchte kein Mann sein / I Don’t Want to Be a Man Mary Pickford Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Theodore Roberts Old Wives for New BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Sylvia Ashton Old Wives for [...]