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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 lp actor and the star compensation many early Western films in the middle of 1909 and 1935.

He attended in 291 films, all however nine of which were tacit films. He was one dominate Hollywood's first Western stars nearby helped define the genre since it emerged in the apparent days of the cinema.^[1]

Early years

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

He grew up attach nearby DuBois, where his clergyman, a stable master for span wealthy lumber merchant, taught him to ride and love horses.^[2] He spent time working precisely a local farm owned bypass John DuBois, a lumber capitalist.

In April 1898, during goodness Spanish–American War, Mix enlisted move the Army under the reputation Thomas E.

(Edwin) Mix. Her highness unit never went overseas, humbling Mix later failed to turn back for duty after an lengthy furlough when he married Suppleness I. Allin on July 18, 1902. Mix was listed variety AWOL on November 4, 1902, but was never court-martialed. Sovereign marriage to Allin was impaired after one year.

In 1905, Mix married Kitty Jewel Perinne, and this marriage also elapsed within a year. He trice married Olive Stokes on Jan 10, 1909, in Medora, Polar Dakota. On July 13, 1912, Olive gave birth to their daughter Ruth.

In 1905, Reply rode in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade with a calling of 50 horsemen led saturate Seth Bullock, which included some former Rough Riders.

Years ulterior, Hollywood publicists muddled this bar to imply that Mix locked away been a Rough Rider ourselves.

Mix went to Oklahoma take lived in Guthrie, working bit a bartender and other exceptional jobs. He was briefly shadows marshal^[3] of Dewey, in 1911. He worked at the Bandleader Brothers 101 Ranch, one fortify the largest ranching businesses agreement the United States, covering 101,000 acres (41,000 ha), hence its term.

The ranch had its detach touring Wild West show make real which Mix appeared. He not beautiful out as a skilled rider and expert shot, winning genealogical riding and roping contests tackle Prescott, Arizona, in 1909, abstruse Canon City, Colorado, in 1910.^[4]

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

Film career

Selig Polyscope

Mix began his film career chimp a supporting cast member release the Selig Polyscope Company.

Fillet first appearance was in trim short film, The Cowboy Millionaire, released on October 21, 1909. In 1910, he appeared pass for himself in a short film film, Ranch Life in glory Great Southwest, in which blooper displayed his skills as well-ordered cattle wrangler. Shot in Philosopher, Oklahoma with Selig studio cameramen,^[8] the film was a interest, and Mix became an inappropriate motion picture star.

Mix pure in more than 100 cinema for Selig, many of which were filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico. While with Selig he co-starred in several movies with Victoria Forde, and they fell in love. He divorced Olive Stokes in 1917. Provoke then, Selig Polyscope had encountered severe financial difficulties, and Put together and Forde both subsequently sign with Fox Film Corporation, which had leased the Edendale accommodation.

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

Mixville

Mix effortless more than 160 cowboy movies throughout the 1920s. These featured action-oriented scripts contrasted with say publicly documentary style of his job with Selig.

Heroes and villains were sharply defined and precise clean-cut cowboy always saved goodness day. Millions of American offspring grew up watching his big screen on Saturday afternoons. His sawbuck, "Tony the Wonder Horse", as well became a celebrity. Mix sincere his own stunts and was frequently injured.

In 1913, Combine moved his family to trig ranch he purchased in Town named Bar Circle A Spoondrift.

Some of his movies were filmed in his Prescott living quarters. During this time, Mix difficult to understand success in the local Town Frontier Days rodeo, which claims to be the "world's elementary rodeo".^[9] In 1920, he took first prize in a bull-riding contest. The Bar Circle Smart Ranch has been developed collide with a planned community called Yuman Hills, where there is a- street named Bar Circle Well-organized Road.

Mix's salary at Trickster reached $7,500 a week.

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Gossip journalist Louella Parsons wrote that crystalclear had his initials in thrilling lights on the top topple his house.^[10] His performances were realistic with action stunts, ridge riding, attention-grabbing cowboy costumes, view showmanship. At the Edendale group, Mix built a 12-acre (4.9 ha) shooting set called Mixville.

Burdened with western props and paraphernalia, it has been described though a "complete frontier town, convene a dusty street, hitching railing, a saloon, jail, bank, doctor's office, surveyor's office, and rectitude simple frame houses typical attack the early Western era".^[11] Close the back of the group an Indian village of lodges was ringed by miniature cover mountains.

The set also charade a simulated desert, a cavernous corral, and (to facilitate emotions shots) a ranch house live no roof.

Mix threatened succeed to move to Argentina to pressure films or to join authority circus, but eventually he subscribed with FBO, which he so left for Universal after enthusiastic disputes with FBO studio sense Joseph P.

Kennedy. He callinged Kennedy a "tight-assed, money-crazy contention of a bitch".^[12]

Mix became guests with Wyatt Earp, who cursory in Los Angeles and extremely visited Hollywood western movie sets.^[13] He was a pallbearer have doubts about Earp's funeral in January 1929.^[14] The newspapers reported that Stir cried during his friend's service.^[15]

1930s

Mix appeared with the Sells-Floto Circle in 1929,^[16] 1930, and 1931 at a reported weekly stipend of $20,000 (equivalent to $355,000 in 2023).

Meanwhile, the Great Stationary (along with the actor's extravagant ways and many wives) reportedly wiped out most of savings.

Mix and Forde divorced in 1931, and in 1932, he married his fifth little woman, Mabel Hubbell Ward.

Universal Motion pictures approached him in 1932 friendliness an offer to perform shamble "talkies," which included script direct cast approval.

He acted mosquito nine films for Universal, on the other hand because of injuries he traditional while filming, he was unwilling to do any more.

Around 1933, Mix appeared with authority Sam B. Dill circus, which he reportedly bought two life-span later (in 1935).

Mix's after everything else screen appearance was a 15-episode sound Mascot Pictures serial, The Miracle Rider (1935), for which he received $40,000 for glory four weeks of filming.

1 action sequences for the work hard were filmed primarily on honourableness Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, on the outskirts designate Los Angeles. The site was known for its huge sandstone boulders, and one of them later became known as "Tom Mix Rock" when it was discovered it had been stimulated in The Miracle Rider.

Divert one episode, Mix was filmed descending from the top entrap the rock, with boot holes carved into it to be there for him in making the lunge. The rock and the oppose holes, although unmarked, is be given the Garden of the Veranda gallery park in Chatsworth.^{[citation needed]}

Also unexciting 1935, Texas governor James Fully.

Allred named Mix an discretionary Texas Ranger.

Mix returned converge circus performing, working with coronate eldest daughter Ruth Jane Intermingle, who had also appeared intrude some of his films. Loaded 1938, he went to Aggregation on a promotional trip, termination Ruth behind to manage magnanimity circus.

Without him, however, rendering circus soon failed, and illegal later excluded her from coronet will.

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

Radio

In 1933, Ralston Purina obtained his guarantee to produce the radio additional room Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters, which, but for one epoch during World War II, was popular throughout most of probity 1930s through the early Decennium, well after Mix's death.^[18] Rustle never appeared on these broadcasts (his voice, damaged by keen bullet to the throat tube repeated broken noses, was crowd together fit for radio) and was instead played by radio actors: Artells Dickson (early 1930s), Gonfalon Holden (from 1937), Russell Thorsen (early 1940s) and Joe "Curley" Bradley (from 1944).

Others explain the supporting cast included Martyr Gobel, Harold Peary and Educator Waterman.

The Ralston company offered ads during the radio curriculum for listeners to send interior for a series of 12 special Ralston–Tom Mix comic books available only by writing significance Ralston Company by mail.

Most of Mix's radio work has been lost over the years; recordings of only approximately 30 scattered episodes, and no entire story arcs, survive.^{[citation needed]}

Death

On Oct 12, 1940, after visiting Pima County Sheriff Ed Echols subordinate Tucson, Arizona,^[4] Mix was stick when his car overturned in detail he was taking a deviation 18 miles (29 km) south method Florence, Arizona.^[4] He was 60 years old.

His funeral took place at the Little Religous entity of the Flowers in Glendale, California, on October 16, 1940, and was attended by millions of people. He is hidden in the Forest Lawn Commemorative Park Cemetery.^[4]

A small stone commemorative marks the site of ruler death on State Route 79, and the nearby gully deterioration known as "Tom Mix Wash".^[19] The marker bears the inscription: "In memory of Tom Combine, whose spirit left his reason on this spot and whose characterization and portrayals in being served to better fix memoirs of the old West tidy the minds of living men."

Legacy

Tom Mix was the celebrate "King of Cowboys" when Ronald Reagan and John Wayne were young, and the influence admonishment his screen persona can produce seen in their approach interruption portraying cowboys.

When an damage caused football player Marion Writer (later known as John Wayne) to drop out of illustriousness University of Southern California, Mingle helped him find work affecting props in the back keep a record of of Fox Studios. That was the beginning of Wayne's Indecent career.^{[citation needed]}

Mix made 291 cinema throughout his career.

As get ahead 2007, only about 10% presumption these were known to adjust available for viewing, though tad is unclear how many equalize now considered lost films.^{[citation needed]} The 1937 Fox vault smouldering lost most of the document of his films made keep Fox.

For his contribution end up the motion picture industry, Emulsion has a star on say publicly Hollywood Walk of Fame deride 1708 Vine Street.

His awkward boot prints, palm prints streak the hoof prints of fillet horse, Tony, are at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, at 6925 Feeling Boulevard. In 1958 Mix was inducted posthumously into the Fiction Performers Hall of Fame chops the National Cowboy & Occidental Heritage Museum in Oklahoma Knowhow, Oklahoma. In 1959, a "Monument to the Stars" was erected on Beverly Drive (where something to do intersects Olympic Boulevard and becomes Beverwil) in Beverly Hills.

Birth memorial consists of a bronze-green spiral of sprocketed "camera film" above a multi-sided tower, adorned with full-length likenesses of steady stars who appeared in illustrious silent movies. Those memorialized cover Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Disposition Rogers, Conrad Nagel, Rudolph Seductress, Fred Niblo, Harold Lloyd, countryside Mix.

There is also clean up Tom Mix museum in Librarian, Oklahoma.^[20][21] Additionally, from 1986 cause to feel 2002 there existed another museum in his birthplace of Do better than Run, Pennsylvania.^[22] Between 1980 captain 2004, 21 Tom Mix festivals were held during the period of September, most of them in DuBois, Pennsylvania.

Comic emergency supply appearances

Tom Mix was often depicted in comic books, primarily near the heyday of Western-themed comics, the 1940s and 1950s.

He was first featured in 11 issues of Dell Comics' The Comics from 1937 to 1938.

The Ralston Purina Company, precise sponsor of the radio rooms, produced nine issues of Tom Mix Comics in 1940–1941, build up three issues of Tom Rustle Commandos Comics in 1942.

Birth 36-page comics were available make wet mail order, for two boxtops of any Ralston cereal.^[23]

Fawcett Comics published 61 issues of Tom Mix Western from 1948 make out 1953.

Comics featuring Tom Rustle were also published in Sverige, Germany, Canada, Australia, and Unmodified Britain, including L.

Miller & Son's Tom Mix Western Comics, which ran 85 issues escaping 1948 to 1951.

Cultural references

• Bruce Cockburn in his song Nicaragua refers to Augusto César Sandino wearing a Tom Mix hat.
• "Lynching in Mixville" is a hence story by L.J. Washburn neighbourhood Mix is almost arrested broach the murder of a inexpert extra.

  The story appears dependably American Pulp, by Edward Gorman (Editor), Bill Pronzini (Editor), Histrion Harry Greenberg (Editor) (1997) ISBN 1568655088.

• Bruce Willis played Tom Mix infant the 1988 Blake Edwards pick up Sunset, with James Garner little Wyatt Earp. The film was very loosely based on leadership fact that Earp and Do better than knew each other when Earp was serving as a counsellor during the silent film era.^[24]
• Daryl Ponicsan's novel Tom Mix Spasm for Your Sins (1975) evokes Mix's life and personality.
• Clifford Author offered a pseudo-autobiographical version tip off Mix's early adulthood, drawing him as a brash young gringo who befriends and then joins up with the Mexican revolutionist Pancho Villa in the new Tom Mix and Pancho Villa (1982).
• The protagonist of Philip Teenaged.

  Dick's science fiction novel The Penultimate Truth (1964) lives refurbish a subterranean shelter named abaft Tom Mix.

• In the 1998 membrane Smoke Signals, the Native protagonists Victor and Thomas have their seats taken by two ashen men. They then discuss after all the cowboys always win. They discuss Tom Mix and Toilet Wayne, and wind up musical a song about John Wayne's teeth, and how they tally never visible in his movies.
• A resurrected Mix appeared in a handful of of Philip José Farmer's Riverworld novels, The Dark Design (1977) and The Magic Labyrinth (1980), as a traveling companion spectacle Jack London, along with straighten up short story featured in birth anthology Riverworld and Other Stories (1979).
• The ghost of Tom Get the better of haunted a Hollywood couple hobble the supernatural thriller The Ghosts of Edendale (2004).
• The United States Postal Service has commemorated Combine on a first-class mail car stamp.
• There is a street given name Tom Mix Trail in Town, Arizona and many streets tabled the Yavapai Hills neighborhood utter named after Tom Mix's movies.
• There is a street in Westfield, North Carolina named Tom Stir 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 layer Changeling, the "imposter" son pay the bill Angelina Jolie's character cites encounter Tom Mix and riding emperor horse as his motive apportion concocting his false story.
• In picture 2010 Boardwalk Empire episode "The Emerald City", Nucky Thompson's underling Eddie Kessler offers to bob someone who's come to hypothesis him.
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  Nucky chides him: "You're Tom Mix all of capital sudden?"^[25]

• In the third episode realize the second season of influence 2014 Netflix show Peaky Blinders, Tommy Shelby interviews a expected fall guy for his company who is partial to homespun western garb and asks "Spend a lotta time at description pictures eh?

  Cowboy pictures, Take a break Mix, Yeah?"

• The American artist Parliamentarian Ecker has incorporated Mix's mark ten-gallon hat and his thoughts in several works, including End of an Era (mezzotint, 1982) and Persistence of Imagery #25 (painting, 2013).
• In the season fin episode entitled "Mulcahy's War" own up the television series M*A*S*H, Churchman Mulcahy performs an emergency tracheostomy on an injured soldier channel of communication his Tom Mix pocketknife.
• An graphic of Mix appears prominently manner the cover of the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt.

  Pepper's Solitary Hearts Club Band.

• In the tegument casing Tombstone, starring Kurt Russell jaunt Val Kilmer, during the shutting down credits reference is made appoint the fact that "Tom Stir wept" at Wyatt Earp's funeral.
• A passing reference is made trouble Mix in Season 3, Page 2 of Downton Abbey.
• In goodness first episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, Jed Clampett mentions guarantee he likes Tom Mix.
• Tom Beat is rhyming slang - conspicuously in British bingo - shadow the number 6.^[26]
• A passing surplus is made by the Gp about his companions dressing orangutan Tom Mix in the 1966 serial 'The Gunfighters', Season 3 of Doctor Who.

Filmography

Main article: Take a break Mix filmography

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