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The Mating of Marcella

1918 film by Roy William Neill

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ3521820 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Mating of Marcella is a lost 1918 American drama silent film directed by Roy William Neill, and written by Joseph F. Poland and R. Cecil Smith. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Thurston Hall, Juanita Hansen, William Conklin, Donald MacDonald and Milton Ross. The film was released on May 20, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.

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“The Mating of Marcella” enters the record as 1918 film by Roy William Neill. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mating, Marcella and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mating, Marcella and film.
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“The Mating of Marcella” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mating, Marcella and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3521820. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Mating of Marcella” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.