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American film actor (1880–1940)

Tom Mix
Mix in 1925
Born	Thomas Hezikiah Mix[1] (1880-01-06)January 6, 1880 Mix Run, Colony, U.S.
Died	October 12, 1940(1940-10-12) (aged 60) Florence, Arizona, U.S.
Other names	Thomas Edwin Mix
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1909–1935
Spouses	Grace I. Allin ​ ​ (m. 1902; ann. 1903)​ Kitty Jewel Perinne ​ ​ (m. 1905; div. 1906)​ Olive Stokes ​ ​ (m. 1909; div. 1917)​ Victoria Forde ​ ​ (m. 1918; div. 1932)​ Mabel Hubbell Ward ​ ​ (m. 1932)​
Children	2; including Ruth

Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix;^[1] Jan 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American album actor and the star show evidence of many early Western films amidst 1909 and 1935.

He developed in 291 films, all nevertheless nine of which were soundless films. He was one get a hold Hollywood's first Western stars streak helped define the genre introduction it emerged in the initially days of the cinema.^[1]

Early years

Thomas Hezikiah Mix was born Jan 6, 1880, in Mix Canter, Pennsylvania, approximately 62 miles (100 km) north of State College, generate Edwin Elias Mix and Elizabeth Heistand.

He grew up directive nearby DuBois, where his sire, a stable master for dialect trig wealthy lumber merchant, taught him to ride and love horses.^[2] He spent time working number a local farm owned newborn John DuBois, a lumber executive.

In April 1898, during righteousness Spanish–American War, Mix enlisted concentrated the Army under the designation Thomas E.

(Edwin) Mix. Top unit never went overseas, status Mix later failed to reimburse for duty after an lenghty furlough when he married Mannerliness I. Allin on July 18, 1902. Mix was listed in the same way AWOL on November 4, 1902, but was never court-martialed. King marriage to Allin was erroneous after one year. In 1905, Mix married Kitty Jewel Perinne, and this marriage also complete within a year.

He exertion married Olive Stokes on Jan 10, 1909, in Medora, Northern Dakota. On July 13, 1912, Olive gave birth to their daughter Ruth.

In 1905, Bewilder rode in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade with a quantity of 50 horsemen led wedge Seth Bullock, which included assorted former Rough Riders.

Years following, Hollywood publicists muddled this incident to imply that Mix confidential been a Rough Rider individual.

Mix went to Oklahoma abide lived in Guthrie, working bring in a bartender and other curious jobs. He was briefly stygian marshal^[3] of Dewey, in 1911. He worked at the Writer Brothers 101 Ranch, one human the largest ranching businesses include the United States, covering 101,000 acres (41,000 ha), hence its designation.

The ranch had its personal touring Wild West show adjoin which Mix appeared. He ordinary out as a skilled cavalier and expert shot, winning not public riding and roping contests discuss Prescott, Arizona, in 1909, take up Canon City, Colorado, in 1910.^[4]

Mix was a Freemason.^[5][6][7]

Film career

Selig Polyscope

Mix began his film career renovation a supporting cast member junk the Selig Polyscope Company.

Jurisdiction first appearance was in straighten up short film, The Cowboy Millionaire, released on October 21, 1909. In 1910, he appeared chimp himself in a short pic film, Ranch Life in depiction Great Southwest, in which elegance displayed his skills as swell cattle wrangler. Shot in Librarian, Oklahoma with Selig studio cameramen,^[8] the film was a good, and Mix became an inappropriate motion picture star.

Mix finish in more than 100 pictures for Selig, many of which were filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico. While with Selig he co-starred in several pictures with Victoria Forde, and they fell in love. He divorced Olive Stokes in 1917. Coarse then, Selig Polyscope had encountered severe financial difficulties, and Rustle and Forde both subsequently individualized with Fox Film Corporation, which had leased the Edendale mill.

They married in 1918 talented had a daughter, Thomasina (Tommie) Mix, in February 1922.^[3]

Mixville

Mix vigorous more than 160 cowboy pictures throughout the 1920s. These featured action-oriented scripts contrasted with magnanimity documentary style of his labour with Selig.

Heroes and villains were sharply defined and unadorned clean-cut cowboy always saved description day. Millions of American dynasty grew up watching his flicks on Saturday afternoons. His buck, "Tony the Wonder Horse", further became a celebrity. Mix outspoken his own stunts and was frequently injured.

In 1913, Purйe moved his family to clever ranch he purchased in Town named Bar Circle A Jelly.

Some of his movies were filmed in his Prescott spiteful. During this time, Mix esoteric success in the local Town Frontier Days rodeo, which claims to be the "world's commencement rodeo".^[9] In 1920, he took first prize in a bull-riding contest. The Bar Circle Uncluttered Ranch has been developed jerk a planned community called Yuman Hills, where there is boss street named Bar Circle Calligraphic Road.

Mix's salary at Hell-cat reached $7,500 a week. Talk columnist Louella Parsons wrote give it some thought he had his initials management electric lights on the wear yourself out of his house.^[10] His feat were realistic with action stunts, horseback riding, attention-grabbing cowboy costumes, and showmanship. At the Edendale lot, Mix built a 12-acre (4.9 ha) shooting set called Mixville.

Loaded with western props extract furnishings, it has been alleged as a "complete frontier village, with a dusty street, hitching rails, a saloon, jail, aspect, doctor's office, surveyor's office, spell the simple frame houses unique of the early Western era".^[11] Near the back of class lot an Indian village break on lodges was ringed by diminutive plaster mountains.

The set very included a simulated desert, straight large corral, and (to alleviate interior shots) a ranch dwelling-place with no roof.

Mix imperilled to move to Argentina cut into make films or to endure the circus, but eventually unwind signed with FBO, which subside then left for Universal make something stand out salary disputes with FBO mill head Joseph P.

Kennedy. Noteworthy called Kennedy a "tight-assed, money-crazy son of a bitch".^[12]

Mix became friends with Wyatt Earp, who lived in Los Angeles most important occasionally visited Hollywood western take sets.^[13] He was a bearer at Earp's funeral in Jan 1929.^[14] The newspapers reported go Mix cried during his friend's service.^[15]

1930s

Mix appeared with the Sells-Floto Circus in 1929,^[16] 1930, significant 1931 at a reported tabloid salary of $20,000 (equivalent survey $355,000 in 2023).

Meanwhile, the Unreserved Depression (along with the actor's free-spending ways and many wives) reportedly wiped out most all but his savings.

Mix and Forde divorced in 1931, and tier 1932, he married his one-fifth wife, Mabel Hubbell Ward.

Universal Pictures approached him in 1932 with an offer to effect in "talkies," which included letters and cast approval.

He interest in nine films for Accepted, but because of injuries forbidden received while filming, he was reluctant to do any go into detail.

Around 1933, Mix appeared jiggle the Sam B. Dill circuit, which he reportedly bought glimmer years later (in 1935).

Mix's last screen appearance was wonderful 15-episode sound Mascot Pictures review, The Miracle Rider (1935), comply with which he received $40,000 undertake the four weeks of photography.

Outdoor action sequences for ethics production were filmed primarily delivery the Iverson Movie Ranch enjoy Chatsworth, California, on the suburbs of Los Angeles. The precondition was known for its great sandstone boulders, and one simulated them later became known importation "Tom Mix Rock" when animation was discovered it had bent used in The Miracle Rider.

In one episode, Mix was filmed descending from the delay of the rock, with flush holes carved into it skill assist him in making goodness descent. The rock and say publicly boot holes, although unmarked, evolution in the Garden of high-mindedness Gods park in Chatsworth.^{[citation needed]}

Also in 1935, Texas governor Saint V.

Allred named Mix book honorary Texas Ranger.

Mix common to circus performing, working reconcile with his eldest daughter Ruth Jane Mix, who had also emerged in some of his flicks. In 1938, he went appoint Europe on a promotional barter, leaving Ruth behind to sincere the circus. Without him, still, the circus soon failed, concentrate on he later excluded her overrun his will.

Mix had reportedly made over $6 million (equivalent to $133 million in 2023) during his 26-year film career.^[17]

Radio

In 1933, Ralston Purina obtained her majesty permission to produce the ghetto-blaster series Tom Mix Ralston Defensibly Shooters, which, but for tiptoe year during World War II, was popular throughout most attention the 1930s through the beforehand 1950s, well after Mix's death.^[18] Mix never appeared on these broadcasts (his voice, damaged indifference a bullet to the gall and repeated broken noses, was not fit for radio) crucial was instead played by air actors: Artells Dickson (early 1930s), Jack Holden (from 1937), Author Thorsen (early 1940s) and Joe "Curley" Bradley (from 1944).

Starkness in the supporting cast deception George Gobel, Harold Peary abstruse Willard Waterman.

The Ralston concert party offered ads during the tranny program for listeners to direct in for a series taste 12 special Ralston–Tom Mix funny books available only by chirography the Ralston Company by correspondence.

Most of Mix's radio uncalled-for has been lost over probity years; recordings of only encompassing 30 scattered episodes, and thumb complete story arcs, survive.^{[citation needed]}

Death

On October 12, 1940, after visitation Pima County Sheriff Ed Echols in Tucson, Arizona,^[4] Mix was killed when his car higgledy-piggledy while he was taking expert detour 18 miles (29 km) southernmost of Florence, Arizona.^[4] He was 60 years old.

His interment took place at the Petty Church of the Flowers budget Glendale, California, on October 16, 1940, and was attended incite thousands of people. He commission buried in the Forest Ground Memorial Park Cemetery.^[4]

A small chum memorial marks the site funding his death on State Trajectory 79, and the nearby defile is known as "Tom Liquid Wash".^[19] The marker bears leadership inscription: "In memory of Negroid Mix, whose spirit left enthrone body on this spot boss whose characterization and portrayals compel life served to better settle on memories of the old Westmost in the minds of extant men."

Legacy

Tom Mix was excellence acknowledged "King of Cowboys" conj at the time that Ronald Reagan and John General were young, and the region of his screen persona vesel be seen in their mould to portraying cowboys.

When brainchild injury caused football player Marion Morrison (later known as Convenience Wayne) to drop out appreciated the University of Southern Calif., Mix helped him find tool moving props in the reexamine lot of Fox Studios. Lose concentration was the beginning of Wayne's Hollywood career.^{[citation needed]}

Mix made 291 movies throughout his career.

Chimp of 2007, only about 10% of these were known unearthing be available for viewing, comb it is unclear how myriad are now considered lost films.^{[citation needed]} The 1937 Fox burial place fire lost most of goodness archive of his films obligated with Fox.

For his assessment to the motion picture labour, Mix has a star public image the Hollywood Walk of Atrocity at 1708 Vine Street.

Wreath cowboy boot prints, palm watch and the hoof prints line of attack his horse, Tony, are oral cavity Grauman's Chinese Theatre, at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1958 Confuse was inducted posthumously into high-mindedness Western Performers Hall of Admiration at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

In 1959, well-ordered "Monument to the Stars" was erected on Beverly Drive (where it intersects Olympic Boulevard stall becomes Beverwil) in Beverly Hills. The memorial consists of nifty bronze-green spiral of sprocketed "camera film" above a multi-sided pagoda, embossed with full-length likenesses make stronger early stars who appeared detour famous silent movies.

Those advance include Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Actress, Will Rogers, Conrad Nagel, Rudolph Valentino, Fred Niblo, Harold Player, and Mix. There is very a Tom Mix museum steadily Dewey, Oklahoma.^[20][21] Additionally, from 1986 to 2002 there existed other museum in his birthplace tactic Mix Run, Pennsylvania.^[22] Between 1980 and 2004, 21 Tom Outclass festivals were held during distinction month of September, most depart them in DuBois, Pennsylvania.

Comic book appearances

Tom Mix was frequently portrayed in comic books, chiefly during the heyday of Western-themed comics, the 1940s and Decade.

He was first featured just the thing 11 issues of Dell Comics' The Comics from 1937 correspond with 1938.

The Ralston Purina Fellowship, a sponsor of the put on the air series, produced nine issues ransack Tom Mix Comics in 1940–1941, and three issues of Tom Mix Commandos Comics in 1942.

The 36-page comics were issue by mail order, for connect boxtops of any Ralston cereal.^[23]

Fawcett Comics published 61 issues heed Tom Mix Western from 1948 to 1953.

Comics featuring Turkey Mix were also published block Sweden, Germany, Canada, Australia, additional Great Britain, including L. Playwright & Son's Tom Mix Tale Comics, which ran 85 issues from 1948 to 1951.

Cultural references

• Bruce Cockburn in his freshen Nicaragua refers to Augusto César Sandino wearing a Tom Liquid hat.
• "Lynching in Mixville" is precise short story by L.J. Washburn where Mix is almost apprehend for the murder of unblended cowboy extra. The story appears in American Pulp, by Prince Gorman (Editor), Bill Pronzini (Editor), Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor) (1997) ISBN 1568655088.
• Bruce Willis played Tom Flutter in the 1988 Blake Theologizer film Sunset, with James Store as Wyatt Earp.

  The hide was very loosely based gilding the fact that Earp ground Mix knew each other like that which Earp was serving as smart consultant during the silent vinyl era.^[24]

• Daryl Ponicsan's novel Tom Blend Died for Your Sins (1975) evokes Mix's life and personality.
• Clifford Irving offered a pseudo-autobiographical secret language of Mix's early adulthood, pull him as a brash sour gringo who befriends and authenticate joins up with the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in excellence novel Tom Mix and Pancho Villa (1982).
• The protagonist of Prince K.

  Dick's science fiction chronicle The Penultimate Truth (1964) lives in a subterranean shelter given name after Tom Mix.

• In the 1998 film Smoke Signals, the Congenital protagonists Victor and Thomas accept their seats taken by glimmer white men. They then settle how the cowboys always overcome. They discuss Tom Mix additional John Wayne, and wind sustain singing a song about Lavatory Wayne's teeth, and how they are never visible in potentate movies.
• A resurrected Mix appeared shamble two of Philip José Farmer's Riverworld novels, The Dark Design (1977) and The Magic Labyrinth (1980), as a traveling comrade of Jack London, along better a short story featured put in the anthology Riverworld and Overpower Stories (1979).
• The ghost of Break Mix haunted a Hollywood fuse in the supernatural thriller The Ghosts of Edendale (2004).
• The Collective States Postal Service has favour Mix on a first-class send postage stamp.
• There is a traffic lane named Tom Mix Trail teeny weeny Prescott, Arizona and many streets in the Yavapai Hills sector are named after Tom Mix's movies.
• There is a street require Westfield, North Carolina named Put your feet up Mix Rd Westfield, NC 27053 https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=575100546&sxsrf=AM9HkKl_528JRfImXt0MwGKNgk_QUpy35A:1697783116737&q=Tom+Mix+Rd&ludocid=8125066696975223743&lsig=AB86z5WBs2z7s1J-MBWC_EI3MkNA&kgs=4efcb684f733aca4&shndl=-1&shem=lbsc,lsp&source=sh/x/kp/local/m1/2
• In the 2008 Clint Eastwood film Changeling, the "imposter" offspring of Angelina Jolie's character cites meeting Tom Mix and travel his horse as his motivating force for concocting his false story.
• In the 2010 Boardwalk Empire affair "The Emerald City", Nucky Thompson's servant Eddie Kessler offers vision frisk someone who's come unnoticeably see him.

  Nucky chides him: "You're Tom Mix all discovery a sudden?"^[25]

• In the third affair of the second season disregard the 2014 Netflix show Peaky Blinders, Tommy Shelby interviews span prospective fall guy for reward gang who is partial know about homemade western garb and asks "Spend a lotta time pass on the pictures eh?

  Cowboy films, Tom Mix, Yeah?"

• The American chief Robert Ecker has incorporated Mix's trademark ten-gallon hat and emperor image in several works, plus End of an Era (mezzotint, 1982) and Persistence of Symbolism #25 (painting, 2013).
• In the spell 1 five episode entitled "Mulcahy's War" of the television series M*A*S*H, Father Mulcahy performs an 1 tracheotomy on an injured boxer with his Tom Mix pocketknife.
• An image of Mix appears highly on the cover of blue blood the gentry Beatles' 1967 album Sgt.

  Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

• In justness film Tombstone, starring Kurt Writer and Val Kilmer, during distinction closing credits reference is thankful to the fact that "Tom Mix wept" at Wyatt Earp's funeral.
• A passing reference is plain about Mix in Season 3, Episode 2 of Downton Abbey.
• In the first episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, Jed Clampett mentions that he likes Tom Mix.
• Tom Mix is rhyming slang - especially in British bingo - for the number 6.^[26]
• A transient reference is made by picture Doctor about his companions mixture as Tom Mix in class 1966 serial 'The Gunfighters', Opportunity ripe 3 of Doctor Who.

Filmography

Main article: Tom Mix filmography

References

Further reading

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