Sadly, nearly all of Mix’s Fox films were destroyed in a fire — along with hundreds of silent comedies I sure wish I could see! Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers.

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Too late, Mix stands on the brakes as the car leaves the road and goes airborne, and comes crashing down into a dry gully. Born in Pennsylvania in 1880, Thomas Hezikiah Mix is taught to shoot and ride horses at an early age by his father Edwin, a stable master for a wealthy local lumber merchant.

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Address: 721 N. Delaware, Dewey, OK. The gully was renamed Tom Mix Wash as a makeshift memorial. A piece today on cowboy star Tom Mix (1880-1940). (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.

Passing the torch, as his career winds down, he takes a young actor under his wing, and hocus-pocus, an injured USC football player named Marion Robert Morrison becomes Mr. John Wayne!
(This is contrast to the grim realism of William S. Hart, Hollywood’s previous top western star, who was known for his realism). Silent-film star Tom Mix dies in Arizona car wreck; brained by “Suitcase of Death” On October 12, 1940, cowboy-movie star Tom Mix is killed when … Most of his movies -- released on combustible nitrate film stock -- have been lost.
Profits from an extremely lucrative film career mostly wiped out by the Depression, six wives (in seven marriages), and investment in a failed circus (based on today's values, he makes $400,000,000 during his film career), by 1940 Mix is looking for a new project to up the assets in his bank account. A heavy aluminum suitcase in the back seat became a missile, hit him in the back of the skull, and snapped his neck.

: Tom Mix Museum: Suitcase of Death. His ride off into the sunset comes when Mix is 60 years old. Earp Pallbearers - Mix At Far Right, Cowboy Star William S. Hart Third From Right, Supercharged 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton - Restored.

Dead without knowing it, after the Phaeton comes to rest, Mix takes one step out of the car and then falls over dead, his neck broken and skull smashed by the metal suitcase.

Returned to California, Mix's funeral service takes place at the Little Church of Flowers in Glendale, before final internment takes place at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery ... observed by an overflow crowd of more than 2,000 mourners ... dignitaries will include a who's-who of Hollywood celebrities (Rudy Valee will sing "Empty Saddles") that include the cowboy actors' peers in that field of story telling ... Gene Autry, Buck Jones, Harry Carey, George O'Brien, William S. Hart, and Tex Ritter ... and before his coffin is lowered into the ground, a squad of Mix's companions from the Spanish-American war fire a salute volley over the grave. A survivable accident with a slower speed, use of a seat belt, and no loose items in the car ... the incident instead turns fatal when the large aluminum suitcase Mix has stuffed with jewels, money ($6,000) and traveler's checks ($1,500) becomes a deadly missile that hits the actor in the back of the head.

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