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
Direction Marshall Neilan
Cast Alice White · Lloyd Hughes · Marie Prevost · Kenneth Thomson
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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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