Direction: Marshall Neilan

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Marshall Neilan. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Daddy Long Legs

1919 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Mary Pickford · Milla Davenport · Percy Haswell · Fay Lemport

Plot Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her,...

6.2

26 votes

6.2

26 votes

Stella Maris

1918 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Mary Pickford · Ida Waterman · Herbert Standing · Conway Tearle

Plot Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no...

6.2

33 votes

6.2

33 votes

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1917 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Mary Pickford · Eugene O’Brien · Helen Jerome Eddy · Charles Ogle

Plot With her family in financial difficulties, Rebecca is sent to live with her two strict, unfeeling aunts, who do not appreciate the young girl's charm and energy. Rebecca must make...

5.3

34 votes

5.3

34 votes

The Vagabond Lover

1929 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Rudy Vallee · Sally Blane · Marie Dressler · Charles Sellon

Plot A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.

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M'Liss

1918 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Mary Pickford · Theodore Roberts · Thomas Meighan · Tully Marshall

Plot M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two...

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The Lemon Drop Kid

1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Lee Tracy · Helen Mack · William Frawley · Minna Gombell

Plot Con artist and racetrack tout Wally Brooks hands a lemon drop to a man in a wheelchair, saying it will cure whatever ails him, then persuades the man, a millionaire...

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Swing It Professor

1937 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Pinky Tomlin · Paula Stone · Milburn Stone · Mary Kornman

Plot A music professor is fired from his job for not knowing enough about modern "swing" music. He goes to Chicago to learn more about the subject in hopes of getting...

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Social Register

1934 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Colleen Moore · Charles Winninger · Pauline Frederick · Alexander Kirkland

Plot Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama...

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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

1918 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Mary Pickford · William Scott · Kate Price · Ida Waterman

Plot Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets...

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Sweethearts on Parade

1930 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

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Dinty

1920 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction John McDermott · Marshall Neilan

Cast Wesley Barry · Noah Beery · Colleen Moore · Aaron Mitchell

Plot Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.

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The Little Princess

1917 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Mary Pickford · Norman Kerry · Katherine Griffith · Anne Schaefer

Plot Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful...

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Catch-As Catch-Can (S)

1931 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast ZaSu Pitts · Thelma Todd · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams · Reed Howes

Plot ZaSu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.

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Her Wild Oat

1927 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Colleen Moore · Larry Kent · Hallam Cooley · Gwen Lee

Plot Mary Lou Smith is a hardworking owner of a food wagon. She decides to take her hard earned money and splurge on a vacation where the rich and famous gather...

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Chloe, Love Is Calling You

1934 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Olive Borden · Reed Howes · Molly O'Day · Francis Joyner

Plot A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisians swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband.

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