You can count me as a Milton Sills fan also--I saw The Sea Hawk first and was vastly impressed. That perhaps led me to be more tolerant of his role in Miss Lulu Bett, where he's restrained but not really boring if you already know how much energy he could carry around. He and Lois Wilson are drying dishes at one point and asks "How on earth do you dry the inside of a glass?". Lulu shows him the obvious answer and he slaps his head with beautiful self-effacement and humour. He was undoubtedly one of the best educated of all screen stars at the time, having graduated from and worked for the University of Chicago as either a researcher or professor (or both, depending on what you read).greta de groat wrote:I second all the films mentioned so far and would also love to see more. I'm not sure what else is out there and in showable condition. I'm most curious about The Sea Wolf. Has anybody actually seen this? (i've asked this before on ams and nobody has fessed up).
greta
Anyway, I haven't done a comprehensive check into what films of his survive, but glancing through AMS posts and the online holdings of UCLA and LOC yield at least (besides the 3-4 obvious ones):
Behold My Wife (1920) UCLA
One Clear Call (1922) Turner (now WB)
Adam’s Rib (1923) GEH
The Spoilers (1923) Národní Filmový Archiv, Prague
Valley of the Giants (1927) UCLA
Burning Daylight (1928) LOC
His Captive Woman (1929) LOC
Love and the Devil (1929) Národní Filmový Archiv, Prague
Man Trouble (1930) UCLA
There are a couple of incompletes too--UCLA has 4 reels of 5 for The Hushed Hour (1919) on nitrate only, and LOC may have something on it too, but their listing is ambiguous. UCLA also has the first reel of The Making of O’Malley (1925) on nitrate. So if any Sills fans need a preservation project to fund...
-Harold
