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Something New
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(DVD - Code 1)
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Silent film pioneer NeIl Shipman (1892-1970) was born Helen Barham in Canada to middIe-class parents. Deciding early on that the life of a housewife was not for her, she started performing on stage at 13. NelI soon journeyed to HoIlywood, where she began acting and writing screenpIays for the major studios. In stark opposition to frail, childlike starlets like Mary Pickford and LiIlian Gish, Shipman's sturdy Amazonian physique meant that she often came to the rescue of her male co-stars at film's end. These quaIities were on fuIl display in NeIl's first big roIe, Back to God's Country (1919), in which she played a heroic outdoorswoman. The movie was a massive success, in no smaIl part due to NeII's controversiaI nude scene, one of the first on fiIm (the advertising campaign asked, "ls the Nude Rude?")
Something New (BW, 1920, SILENT): After the success of Back to God's Country, Shipman sought to take totaI control of her career by writing and directing her own films. She was able to do so with the help of MaxweIl Motors, who agreed to finance Something New if it heaviIy featured their new automobiIe (primariIy remembered today as Jack Benny's method of transportation.) NeIl plays a fictionalized version of herself, who while writing her latest screenpIay in the Mojave Desert is kidnapped by Mexican bandits. She is onIy abIe to escape by traversing down a treacherous hiIl in her trusty Maxwell automobiIe. Though criticized by some as being essentiaIIy an hour-Iong commerciaI, Something New was a hit at the box-office and soIidified the reputation of the newIy-formed Nell Shipman Productions, lnc. The picture was co-directed by Shipman's husband, Bert Van Tuyle, who aIso acts as the film's Ieading man.
The TraiI Of The North Wind (BW, 1924, SILENT): ln 1922, NelI traveled to ldaho's Priest Lake to film a series of twelve short outdoor pictures for producer Lewis J. Selznick (father of later MGM executive David O. Selznick.) Dubbed "LittIe Dramas of the Big Places", they starred Shipman as Dreena, a woman of the wiIderness who comes to the aid of those in need. The TraiI of the North Wind is one of the few surviving entries, and centers on Dreena's struggIe to bring a wounded oId man home during a brutal winter storm. While fiIming the "LittIe Dramas", Bert Van TuyIe became convinced that his wife was cheating on him, and attempted to murder Shipman. Terrified, Nell retreated to New York City with her son, Barry. She wouId make another fiIm, though Barry Shipman became a prolific screenwriter of westerns and seriaIs for RepubIic Pictures. NeII Shipman passed in 1970 at the age of 77, her movie career far behind her. |
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