Background
Milton George Gustavus Sills was born on January 12, 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of William Henry and Josephine Antoinette (Troost) Sills. His full name was Milton George Gustavus Sills, the middle part of which he later dropped.
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2010 Reprint of 1932 Edition. This book consists for the most part of conversations between Milton Sills and Ernest Holmes. According to Holmes, it represents a good representation of Sill's belief about the continuity of the human soul. This was the subject of the extended conversations presented in this work. Sill's nature was deeply spiritual, highly intellectual and bordered on the mystical. He possessed one of the most brilliant and well-trained minds Holmes had ever known. He believed in emergent evolution, ever ascending, but never reaching a final goal. Hence, eternity meant to him an everlasting progress in which the individual never loses those elements essential to the continuation of a definitely individualized entity.
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Milton George Gustavus Sills was born on January 12, 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of William Henry and Josephine Antoinette (Troost) Sills. His full name was Milton George Gustavus Sills, the middle part of which he later dropped.
He was graduated from the University of Chicago in 1903 with the degree of A. B. , and for a year and a half remained there as a scholar and fellow in philosophy.
His experiences in college dramatic performances prepared him to some extent for his professional début at New Palestine, Ohio, in 1906, in an old melodrama entitled Dora Thorne. A season of barnstorming through towns of the Middle West followed, and then he went to New York, where he was soon playing conspicuous rôles under the Frohman, Shubert, Belasco, and other managements.
An engagement with Charles Coburn's repertory company gave him valuable experience in Shakespearian plays. He was for a time leading man with Blanche Bates in The Fighting Hope.
During this period he acted for the most part in plays of the hour that soon vanished from the stage; among them were This Woman and This Man, Just Married, The Governor's Lady, The Law of the Land, and A Happy Marriage, the last mentioned being one of the minor comedies of Clyde Fitch.
In 1914 he deserted the stage for the screen, and in 1916, after preliminary experience in the illequipped studios of New York, he went to Hollywood, and there began a new era of success as a motion picture star. His first appearance on the screen was made in association with Wilton Lackaye in a motion picture version of Frank Norris's novel, The Pit. Later he played leading characters in The Barker, Burning Daylight, The Sea-Hawk, Men of Steel (of which he was part author), and Paradise.
All of these were marked by the forceful acting in which he excelled both on the screen and the stage. He was, it is said, far removed from the popular idea of the film idol when he was outside of the studios. His library contained books in Greek, French, and Russian, all of which he read; his chess game was well above the average, and his talk ranged from philosophy or the experimental sciences to the fine points of tennis or golf.
His work as an actor and motion picture performer did not fill all his active hours, for he remained interested in philosophy and art. He never abandoned his academic studies, and delivered occasional lectures at colleges and universities on various subjects connected and unconnected with the stage; in 1927 he spoke at the Harvard school of business administration on conditions in the motion picture world. He was the co-author with Ernest S. Holmes of a book, published (after his death) in 1932, entitled Values: a Philosophy of Human Needs, and he was one of the organizers of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Unlike most actors, he became a wealthy man and left an estate of several hundred thousand dollars.
He died suddenly while playing tennis with his wife at their home in Santa Monica, California.
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He was tall, of fine figure, and with a resonant voice that served him well when the silent screen became vocal.
His marriage to Gladys Edith Wynne in London on May 26, 1910, resulted in divorce in 1925, and on October 12, 1926, he married an actress, Doris Margaret Kenyon. With her survived a daughter by the first marriage and a son by the second.