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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Tags: Cinesation 2009, Classic Movies, Film Reviews, Frances Marion, M'Liss, Marshall Neilan, Mary Pickford, Silent Films, Theodore Roberts, Thomas Meighan, Walter Stradling
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FILM
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d: Cecil B. DeMille; scr: Jeanie Macpherson
ACTOR
Elliott Dexter
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ACTRESS
Ossi Oswalda
Ich möchte kein Mann sein / I Don’t Want to Be a Man
Mary Pickford
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Theodore Roberts
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SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sylvia Ashton
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Florence Vidor
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CINEMATOGRAPHY
G. W. Bitzer
Hearts of the World
Walter Stradling
Stella Maris
Alvin Wyckoff
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