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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Argyle Case" with Thomas Meighan completes the double bill. Also a sound picture and a very good one, it presents Mr. Meighan in the new role of detective, and he proves himself quite efficient in solving the famous Argyle murder, doing it in a way that will delight any lover of mystery. He is ably supported by H. B. Warner and Lila...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

William Fox, cineman, was hurrying out Long Island to keep golf appointment with Cinemen Adolph Zukor (Par-amount-Famous-Lasky) and Nicholas Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), and Cinemactor Thomas Meighan, when his Rolls-Royce collided with a car driven by a Miss Dorothy Kane, overturned, killed the Fox chauffeur, injured Cineman Fox badly. A blood transfusion (one pint) was administered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Offer-by Thomas Meighan, to pay the railroad fare of any two "good" bridge players who would accompany himself and wife from Manhattan to Los Angeles. Meighan, an expert, has played with such famed bridgers as Milton C. Work and Sidney Lenz. Cinema people also consider Bebe Daniels capable of earning her living at the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Pointing out that in spite of their great salaries many money-hungry cinemactors have ways of making money besides acting. Critic Regina Cannon (New York American) listed the extra-studio businesses of various stars: John Gilbert, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Meighan-financing real estate developments; Mary Pickford- banking; Karl Dane-raising chickens; Chester Conklin-raising turkeys; Bessie Love-dairy farming; Lon Chaney-part-ownership in a plumbing company; Constance Talmadge-manufacturing cold cream; Lew Cody-automobile agency and part-ownership in a barber shop; Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt-stockyards at Fresno, Calif.; Renee Adorée-French restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Mating Call. Thomas Meighan comes home from the War to a Southern village to find that Evelyn Brent, whom he left at the station the day they were married, has had the marriage annulled and tied herself to Alan Roscoe. She still likes Meighan and hangs around his farm so much that the Ku Klux Klan warns him to let married women alone. Meighan wants a wife and no jezebelling so he goes to Ellis Island and makes a deal with an immigrant girl, Renee Adoree. A subplot (Roscoe has a mistress) makes possible a climax complicated in synopsis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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