By Fritzi Kramer on July 19, 2014 in Blog, GIF, Humor After I posted my Silent Movie Star personality quiz, the #1 question I received was this: Who is Milton Sills? You can read my mini biography of Sills but I think that in order to appreciate him, you need to see him in action. This means GIFs! read more
By Fritzi Kramer on May 6, 2014 in Blog, GIF, Humor Milton Sills is feeling pretty confident in Adam’s Rib. Who wouldn’t be? He is about to ship his kingly romantic rival back to his revolution-prone Balkan homeland. Nothing says victory like getting your wife’s boyfriend killed b read more
Admit it, the poster makes you want to see it too… Men of Steel (1926) Status: Unknown Sorry, this is not a Superman movie. However, it just may be even better. Milton Sills’s character study is set in a steel mill, an angle that is heavily exploited by the First National marketing depa read more
He may have been, um, distracting as a professor… Milton Sills (1882-1930) Country of birth: USA The basics: Milton Sills was born in Chicago into a well-to-do family. He received a college scholarship, earned a post as a professor and was working toward his doctorate when, in 1905, he decide read more
Puppets (1926) Status: Unknown The plot concerns Nicki (Milton Sills), an violently temperamental Italian puppet master living in New York. He serves in World War One and loses his hearing due to shell-shock but it too proud to admit it. His wife (Gertrude Olmsted), believing him dead, has begun an read more
