Mickey (1918 film)
- Mabel Normand: Mickey
- George Nichols: Joe Meadows
- Wheeler Oakman: Herbert Thornhill
- Minta Durfee: Elsie Drake
- Laura La Varnie: Mrs. Geoffrey Drake
- Lew Cody: Reggie Drake
- Tom Kennedy: Tom Rawlings
- Minnie Devereaux: Minnie, Joe's housekeeper
- Clarence Lyndon: greengrocer
- Eva Thatcher: cook
- William Colvin: Servant
- Also: Joe Bordeaux, Edgar Kennedy
Mickey is an American silent film, the F. Richard Jones and James Young in 1918 based on a screenplay by the author JG Hawks realized. The female lead role was played by Mabel Normand, who also produced the film along with Mack Sennett at the same time. Other leading roles George Nichols, Wheeler Oakman and Minta Durfee were seen.
The film was also titled Mountain bred. The refers to a basic theme of the film, the contrast between the rough but honest mountain people from the West, for which Joe and Mickey, and the supposedly fine, but in reality false and greedy people from the eastern United States, from embodied the Drakes.
Action
Mickey is an orphan who lives in the mountains of California in a hut. The gold-digger Joe Meadows has it, raised after the death of her father, who was his old friend and partner there. Now it is large, and Joe wants to send her to New York, where she is to live with her aunt, Mrs. Drake. You should make Mickey a real lady.
Mrs. Drake, however, would like her own daughter Elsie with another mine owner, Herbert Thornhill, marry, to free themselves from the financial difficulties with which wrestles the Drake family, since son Reggie Drake almost the whole property has wagered on a horse race.
As Thornhill but to a telegram back that sets him on border disputes to his mine in knowledge, travels to California, he met Mickey and falls in love with her. This creates an awkward situation, as Mickey later comes to New York to live with the Drakes.
The reservations that you initially mooted by the " country bumpkin " from the Wild West in the noble family in the East, evaporate quickly when a telegram arrives informing about a tremendous increase in the values Meadows Mine. Since it now looks as if Mickey rich, it is for the marriage plans, which has the aunt with her son, interesting.
Then Reggie begins to make Mickey clumsy advances, much to the annoyance of Thornhill.
The must now between Elsie, which he has already made a request, and Mickey, which he believed to seeing no more, but still loves to decide. His lawyer, Tom Rawlings brings him a telegram to note which says that the rights were denied to his mine by the court to him and he needs $ 10,000 to pay back if he does not want to commit a criminal offense. Now Thornhill is as poor as it was Mickey. Prompt solves Elsie 's engagement with it. But the telegram, as it turns out in the end, was only a ruse by Rawlings to elicit Thornhill from his entanglements with the Drake family; with the rights of all is in order and the mine throws off big win.
The initial sympathy for Mickey's Reggie disappears when the device in criminal activity in connection with his passion for betting. Thornhill and Mickey find each other and marry. Your honeymoon is going where Mickey is come: in the gold mining world in the West.
Reception
Mickey had originally 8 file and a length of 93 minutes. The recordings were made in the 24th Street in Los Angeles and at the Big Bear Lake and Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest in California. Rotation was beginning in the fall 1916. Due to the illness of Mabel Normand end of 1916 to the completion of the production and moved back into the spring of 1917.
Within the U.S., Mickey was on the W. H. Productions Company awarded. The world rights to it acquired on December 27, 1917, the Western Import Company.
Mickey was premiered in America on 11 August 1918. Producer Sennett had started for an elaborate advertising campaign, which was not without effect: the Americans were " Mickey crazy " in the truest sense of the word after the screening of the film.
Mickey was the most successful film in 1918 with a budget equivalent to U.S. $ 250,000 to revenues of world's 8 million U.S. dollars.
In France, the film was only an abridged version in the theaters.
Mickey survived in two versions: the original rental version of 1918 with a playing time of 67 minutes and in an enlarged by additional material cut version, which in the 1920s by the company FBO (film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated) was reissued and 100 minutes lasted.
Neil Moret ( pseudonym of Charles N. Daniels) wrote to Mickey hit a movie ( theme song ) to the Harry Williams wrote the words. It was copyrighted in 1918 and published by Daniels & Wilson, music publishing San Francisco and New York. The Joseph C. Smith Trio made on January 18, 1919 of which a recording session at the Victor Co. of Camden (New Jersey).