Thomas Meighan Articles

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 (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 [...]

Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan in M'Liss Cinesation 2009 is currently taking place at the Lincoln Theater in Massilion, Ohio. The four-day festival, which ends on Sunday, will screen a number of hard-to-find titles, including: James Cruze's 1925 political-historical Western The Pony Express, starring Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft in a tale of powerlust and media manipulation. Hey, sounds like life in the [...]

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 [...]