Thomas H. Ince Articles

I usually like The Huffington Post, but sometimes they can get appallingly sensationalistic. Three decades after Natalie Wood's death in late November 1981 — ruled an accidental drowning — new stories have been coming out regarding What Actually Happened. Now, The Huffington Post quoting something — "a sex secret" — found in The National Enquirer? And, to boot, under the heading "Natalie Wood Death: An [...]

O Mimi San (1914) Direction: Charles Miller Screenplay: Thomas H. Ince (unconfirmed) Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Mildred Harris, Tsuru Aoki   O Mimi San is historically important as Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa's first film. In it, Hayakawa plays a prince who goes to a retreat after an attempt on his life is made; once there he falls in love with a young woman (Mildred Harris, future [...]

Via Thomas Gladysz's article in the Los Angeles Examiner: The Edison Theatre at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in the Northern California town of Fremont has been screening silent films and early talkies for quite some time. As Gladysz explains in his article, that area was home to the western studios of the Chicago-based Essanay film company, among whose stars at one point were [...]

The Italian (1915) Direction: Reginald Barker Screenplay: Thomas H. Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan Cast: George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke     George Beban (right) was a renowned stage and vaudeville star. Even though he never became a major film name, Beban appeared in nearly 20 films from the mid-1910s to the mid-1920s, almost invariably in the role of an Italian. His first [...]