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Something New
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Silent film pioneer Nell Shipman (1892-1970) was born Helen Barham in Canada to middle-class parents. Deciding earIy 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. ln stark opposition to frail, chiIdlike starIets Iike Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish, Shipman's sturdy Amazonian physique meant that she often came to the rescue of her male co-stars at film's end. These qualities were on fulI display in NeII's first big roIe, Back to God's Country (1919), in which she pIayed a heroic outdoorswoman. The movie was a massive success, in no small part due to NeII's controversial nude scene, one of the first on film (the advertising campaign asked, "Is the Nude Rude?")
Something New (BW, 1920, SlLENT): After the success of Back to God's Country, Shipman sought to take total control of her career by writing and directing her own fiIms. 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 herseIf, who while writing her latest screenplay 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-long commerciaI, Something New was a hit at the box-office and soIidified the reputation of the newIy-formed NelI Shipman Productions, lnc. The picture was co-directed by Shipman's husband, Bert Van TuyIe, who also acts as the fiIm's leading man.
The Trail Of The North Wind (BW, 1924, SlLENT): In 1922, NeIl traveled to ldaho's Priest Lake to film a series of tweIve short outdoor pictures for producer Lewis J. SeIznick (father of Iater MGM executive David O. SeIznick.) Dubbed "Little Dramas of the Big PIaces", they starred Shipman as Dreena, a woman of the wilderness who comes to the aid of those in need. The Trail of the North Wind is one of the few surviving entries, and centers on Dreena's struggle to bring a wounded old man home during a brutaI winter storm. While filming the "Little Dramas", Bert Van Tuyle became convinced that his wife was cheating on him, and attempted to murder Shipman. Terrified, NeII retreated to New York City with her son, Barry. She would make another film, though Barry Shipman became a proIific screenwriter of westerns and serials for Republic Pictures. NeIl Shipman passed in 1970 at the age of 77, her movie career far behind her. |
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