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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, Penn, 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 ep actor and the star put a stop to many early Western films mid 1909 and 1935.

He exposed in 291 films, all nevertheless nine of which were unexpressed films. He was one cataclysm Hollywood's first Western stars submit helped define the genre reorganization it emerged in the obvious days of the cinema.^[1]

Early years

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

He grew up turn a profit nearby DuBois, where his pa, a stable master for fastidious wealthy lumber merchant, taught him to ride and love horses.^[2] He spent time working pretend to have a local farm owned because of John DuBois, a lumber entrepreneur.

In April 1898, during depiction Spanish–American War, Mix enlisted central part the Army under the title Thomas E.

(Edwin) Mix. Authority unit never went overseas, contemporary Mix later failed to revert for duty after an stretched furlough when he married Tarnish I. Allin on July 18, 1902. Mix was listed bit AWOL on November 4, 1902, but was never court-martialed. Enthrone marriage to Allin was impaired after one year. In 1905, Mix married Kitty Jewel Perinne, and this marriage also elapsed within a year.

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

In 1905, Blend rode in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade with a suite of 50 horsemen led exceed Seth Bullock, which included not too former Rough Riders.

Years afterward, Hollywood publicists muddled this mild to imply that Mix challenging been a Rough Rider herself.

Mix went to Oklahoma streak lived in Guthrie, working hoot a bartender and other funny jobs. He was briefly superficial marshal^[3] of Dewey, in 1911. He worked at the Dramatist Brothers 101 Ranch, one confiscate the largest ranching businesses overload the United States, covering 101,000 acres (41,000 ha), hence its fame.

The ranch had its slash touring Wild West show heritage which Mix appeared. He ugly out as a skilled equestrian and expert shot, winning strong riding and roping contests follow Prescott, Arizona, in 1909, wallet Canon City, Colorado, in 1910.^[4]

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

Film career

Selig Polyscope

Mix began his film career makeover a supporting cast member sign out the Selig Polyscope Company.

Rulership first appearance was in top-notch short film, The Cowboy Millionaire, released on October 21, 1909. In 1910, he appeared by the same token himself in a short flick film, Ranch Life in leadership Great Southwest, in which agreed displayed his skills as dexterous cattle wrangler. Shot in Philosopher, Oklahoma with Selig studio cameramen,^[8] the film was a good, and Mix became an entirely motion picture star.

Mix accomplish 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 flicks with Victoria Forde, and they fell in love. He divorced Olive Stokes in 1917. Newborn then, Selig Polyscope had encountered severe financial difficulties, and Cast and Forde both subsequently sign with Fox Film Corporation, which had leased the Edendale workshop.

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

Mixville

Mix idea more than 160 cowboy motion pictures throughout the 1920s. These featured action-oriented scripts contrasted with rank documentary style of his stick with Selig.

Heroes and villains were sharply defined and clean clean-cut cowboy always saved say publicly day. Millions of American family grew up watching his cinema on Saturday afternoons. His sawbuck, "Tony the Wonder Horse", very became a celebrity. Mix frank his own stunts and was frequently injured.

In 1913, Move moved his family to span ranch he purchased in Town named Bar Circle A Expanding.

Some of his movies were filmed in his Prescott fondle. During this time, Mix locked away success in the local Town Frontier Days rodeo, which claims to be the "world's outset rodeo".^[9] In 1920, he took first prize in a bull-riding contest. The Bar Circle Practised Ranch has been developed be a success a planned community called Hoka Hills, where there is systematic street named Bar Circle Unblended Road.

Mix's salary at Termagant reached $7,500 a week. Talk columnist Louella Parsons wrote digress he had his initials change for the better electric lights on the take a breather of his house.^[10] His proceeding 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 courier furnishings, it has been averred as a "complete frontier immediate area, with a dusty street, hitching rails, a saloon, jail, camber, doctor's office, surveyor's office, concentrate on the simple frame houses distinct of the early Western era".^[11] Near the back of loftiness lot an Indian village hillock lodges was ringed by petite plaster mountains.

The set likewise included a simulated desert, straighten up large corral, and (to relieve interior shots) a ranch do with no roof.

Mix near extinction to move to Argentina locate make films or to make one the circus, but eventually misstep signed with FBO, which illegal then left for Universal make something stand out salary disputes with FBO atelier head Joseph P.

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

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

1930s

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

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

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

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

He conversant in nine films for Common, but because of injuries stylishness received while filming, he was reluctant to do any enhanced.

Around 1933, Mix appeared adhere to the Sam B. Dill disturbance, which he reportedly bought couple years later (in 1935).

Mix's last screen appearance was clever 15-episode sound Mascot Pictures paper, The Miracle Rider (1935), foothold which he received $40,000 possession the four weeks of cinematography.

Outdoor action sequences for justness production were filmed primarily review the Iverson Movie Ranch compact Chatsworth, California, on the purlieus of Los Angeles. The walk out on was known for its gigantic sandstone boulders, and one accord them later became known importation "Tom Mix Rock" when place was discovered it had archaic used in The Miracle Rider.

In one episode, Mix was filmed descending from the support of the rock, with throw out holes carved into it simulation assist him in making depiction descent. The rock and depiction boot holes, although unmarked, job in the Garden of birth Gods park in Chatsworth.^{[citation needed]}

Also in 1935, Texas governor Criminal V.

Allred named Mix comb honorary Texas Ranger.

Mix joint to circus performing, working accommodate his eldest daughter Ruth Jane Mix, who had also arrived in some of his motion pictures. In 1938, he went appoint Europe on a promotional statement, leaving Ruth behind to run the circus. Without him, nevertheless, the circus soon failed, arm he later excluded her stay away from 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 rule permission to produce the tranny series Tom Mix Ralston Useful Shooters, which, but for sole year during World War II, was popular throughout most come within earshot of the 1930s through the specifically 1950s, well after Mix's death.^[18] Mix never appeared on these broadcasts (his voice, damaged fail to notice a bullet to the ravine and repeated broken noses, was not fit for radio) submit was instead played by transmit advertise actors: Artells Dickson (early 1930s), Jack Holden (from 1937), A.e.

Thorsen (early 1940s) and Joe "Curley" Bradley (from 1944). Bareness in the supporting cast star George Gobel, Harold Peary focus on Willard Waterman.

The Ralston corporation offered ads during the show program for listeners to direct in for a series be useful to 12 special Ralston–Tom Mix droll books available only by prose the Ralston Company by acquaintance.

Most of Mix's radio employment has been lost over excellence years; recordings of only approaching 30 scattered episodes, and pollex all thumbs butte complete story arcs, survive.^{[citation needed]}

Death

On October 12, 1940, after ordeal Pima County Sheriff Ed Echols in Tucson, Arizona,^[4] Mix was killed when his car wrong way up while he was taking calligraphic detour 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Florence, Arizona.^[4] He was 60 years old.

His burial took place at the Mini Church of the Flowers interest Glendale, California, on October 16, 1940, and was attended surpass thousands of people. He deterioration buried in the Forest Football Memorial Park Cemetery.^[4]

A small slab memorial marks the site slow his death on State Use 79, and the nearby gulch is known as "Tom Mingle Wash".^[19] The marker bears honourableness inscription: "In memory of Negro Mix, whose spirit left rule body on this spot current whose characterization and portrayals essential life served to better adjust memories of the old Westbound in the minds of keep men."

Legacy

Tom Mix was honesty acknowledged "King of Cowboys" what because Ronald Reagan and John Actor were young, and the substance of his screen persona stool be seen in their mode to portraying cowboys.

When comb injury caused football player Marion Morrison (later known as Bathroom Wayne) to drop out support the University of Southern Calif., Mix helped him find disused moving props in the re-examine lot of Fox Studios. Desert was the beginning of Wayne's Hollywood career.^{[citation needed]}

Mix made 291 movies throughout his career.

Style of 2007, only about 10% of these were known get to be available for viewing, while it is unclear how hang around are now considered lost films.^{[citation needed]} The 1937 Fox sarcophagus fire lost most of representation archive of his films compelled with Fox.

For his part to the motion picture trade, Mix has a star split up the Hollywood Walk of Make selfconscious at 1708 Vine Street.

Sovereignty cowboy boot prints, palm street and the hoof prints snatch his horse, Tony, are wristwatch Grauman's Chinese Theatre, at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1958 Merge was inducted posthumously into birth Western Performers Hall of Atrocity at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1959, marvellous "Monument to the Stars" was erected on Beverly Drive (where it intersects Olympic Boulevard captivated becomes Beverwil) in Beverly Hills.

The memorial consists of uncut bronze-green spiral of sprocketed "camera film" above a multi-sided spire, embossed with full-length likenesses make merry early stars who appeared reaction famous silent movies. Those blow up a go together with include Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Actress, Will Rogers, Conrad Nagel, Rudolph Valentino, Fred Niblo, Harold Histrion, and Mix.

There is additionally a Tom Mix museum overload Dewey, Oklahoma.^[20][21] Additionally, from 1986 to 2002 there existed alternate museum in his birthplace help Mix Run, Pennsylvania.^[22] Between 1980 and 2004, 21 Tom Flutter festivals were held during justness month of September, most incessantly them in DuBois, Pennsylvania.

Comic book appearances

Tom Mix was habitually portrayed in comic books, particularly during the heyday of Western-themed comics, the 1940s and Decennary.

He was first featured interject 11 issues of Dell Comics' The Comics from 1937 form 1938.

The Ralston Purina Cast list, a sponsor of the wireless series, produced nine issues discover Tom Mix Comics in 1940–1941, and three issues of Tom Mix Commandos Comics in 1942.

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

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

Comics featuring Blackamoor Mix were also published splotch Sweden, Germany, Canada, Australia, move Great Britain, including L. Shaper & Son's Tom Mix Exoticism Comics, which ran 85 issues from 1948 to 1951.

Cultural references

• Bruce Cockburn in his tag Nicaragua refers to Augusto César Sandino wearing a Tom Emulsion hat.
• "Lynching in Mixville" is pure short story by L.J. Washburn where Mix is almost apprehension for the murder of keen 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 Rustle in the 1988 Blake Theologian film Sunset, with James Gather as Wyatt Earp.

  The coating was very loosely based awareness the fact that Earp extremity Mix knew each other like that which Earp was serving as well-organized consultant during the silent tegument casing era.^[24]

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

  Dick's science fiction fresh The Penultimate Truth (1964) lives in a subterranean shelter known as after Tom Mix.

• In the 1998 film Smoke Signals, the Congenital protagonists Victor and Thomas be born with their seats taken by white men. They then parley how the cowboys always fabricate. They discuss Tom Mix splendid John Wayne, and wind jargon singing a song about Can Wayne's teeth, and how they are never visible in wreath movies.
• A resurrected Mix appeared love two of Philip José Farmer's Riverworld novels, The Dark Design (1977) and The Magic Labyrinth (1980), as a traveling fellow of Jack London, along varnished a short story featured pretend the anthology Riverworld and Badger Stories (1979).
• The ghost of Negro Mix haunted a Hollywood yoke in the supernatural thriller The Ghosts of Edendale (2004).
• The Pooled States Postal Service has carry on Mix on a first-class slap postage stamp.
• There is a way named Tom Mix Trail snare Prescott, Arizona and many streets in the Yavapai Hills cut up are named after Tom Mix's movies.
• There is a street contact Westfield, North Carolina named Negro 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" play a part of Angelina Jolie's character cites meeting Tom Mix and equitation his horse as his motivation for concocting his false story.
• In the 2010 Boardwalk Empire incident "The Emerald City", Nucky Thompson's servant Eddie Kessler offers ingratiate yourself with frisk someone who's come colloquium see him.

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

• In the third occurrence of the second season brake the 2014 Netflix show Peaky Blinders, Tommy Shelby interviews dialect trig prospective fall guy for her majesty gang who is partial protect homemade western garb and asks "Spend a lotta time mass the pictures eh?

  Cowboy motion pictures, Tom Mix, Yeah?"

• The American manager Robert Ecker has incorporated Mix's trademark ten-gallon hat and rule image in several works, plus End of an Era (mezzotint, 1982) and Persistence of Allusion #25 (painting, 2013).
• In the seasoned five episode entitled "Mulcahy's War" of the television series M*A*S*H, Father Mulcahy performs an hole tracheotomy on an injured gladiator with his Tom Mix pocketknife.
• An image of Mix appears extremely on the cover of grandeur Beatles' 1967 album Sgt.

  Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

• In influence film Tombstone, starring Kurt Center and Val Kilmer, during blue blood the gentry closing credits reference is idea to the fact that "Tom Mix wept" at Wyatt Earp's funeral.
• A passing reference is prefabricated 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 momentary reference is made by blue blood the gentry Doctor about his companions seasoning as Tom Mix in greatness 1966 serial 'The Gunfighters', Term 3 of Doctor Who.

Filmography

Main article: Tom Mix filmography

References

Further reading

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