Marshall Neilan
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Marshall Ambrose "Mickey" Neilan (April 11, 1891 – October 27, 1958) was an American motion picture actor, screenwriter, film producer, and producer.
Early life
Neilan, who was born in San Bernardino, California, was known by most as "Mickey." Following the death of his father, Mickey Neilan, an eleven-year-old boy, had to drop out of school to work at whatever he could find in order to help his mother. He began acting in bit parts in live theatre, and in 1910, he took up chauffeurship, pulling Biograph Studios executives around Los Angeles to determine whether or not the West Coast would be a suitable location for a permanent studio.
Personal life and death
Marshall Neilan married actress Gertrude Bambrick in 1913, who had a son, Marshall Neilan, Jr., who was their only child. Blanche Sweet, a former actor and Bambrick, married Neilan in 1921 and was on staff at several times. In 1929, they both divorced.
Neilan died of throat cancer in Los Angeles in 1958. He is laid to rest in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery.
Career
Neilan made his film debut as part of the American Film Manufacturing Company Western The Stranger in Coyote (1912). Ruth Roland was first cast opposite Kalem Studios' Western film production unit in Santa Monica, Neilan. Neilan's reputation made him direct films within a year of joining Kalem, describing him as calm but egotistic at times. Neilan was recruited by the Selig Polyscope Company, then Bison Motion Pictures and Famous Players-Lasky Corporation after appearing in more than seventy silent film shorts for Kalem and directing more than thirty others. Neilan was one of the founding members of the Motion Picture Directors Association in 1915, as well as producers like Cecil B. DeMille, Allan Dwan, and William Desmond Taylor.
Neilan was recruited by Mary Pickford Films in 1916, where he directed Pickford in several films including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and The Little Princess in 1917, Angely of Clothes-Line Alley, M'Liss in 1918, and Daddy-Long-Legs in 1919.
Neilan's film debuts inspired him to form his own production company, and Marshall Neilan Productions produced 11 feature-length films between 1920 and 1926, almost all of which were released through First National Pictures. He has been lauded for his work on Bits of Life and The Lotus Eater, as well as several others. He was recruited by RKO Radio Pictures in 1929; although he had trouble adapting to directing the new talkies, Rudy Vallee and Marie Dressler were able to direct Rudy Vallee and Marie Dressler in the "all-talking" The Vagabond Lover. Contrary to the legend's assertion that the film was a commercial and critical failure (except for Dressler's highly praised role), the film was a success and was one of RKO's top hits in 1929, earning $335,000.
Neilan had started his career as a director and writer, and he had helped out in several areas of filmmaking early on. He wrote the original story for Howard Hughes' film, Hell's Angels, in 1927. He had initially been hired as the film's director, back when it was still a silent film, but Hughes' overbearing style caused him to leave early, and he was replaced a few weeks into production by Edmund Goulding; no one of the footage Neilan shot made it into the final film. He was then recruited by Hal Roach Studios, for whom he produced a few films in 1930, and 1937 became his last directorial effort. Neilan returned to acting in a small role portraying an ageing and less enlightened United States senator in Elia Kazan's film A Face in the Crowd, having battled alcoholism for a large portion of his adult life.
In 1955, Neilan was named The George Eastman Award by George Eastman House for his contributions to the field of film.
The Directors Guild of America awarded him an "Honorary Life Member Award" in appreciation of his contribution to the motion picture industry in 1940. He later appeared on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6233 Hollywood Blvd.