Talk:Thomas H. Ince

Pronunciation
How is Ince's name pronounced? "Ink-ee" ? Karl gregory jones (talk) 04:22, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

I believe it is pronounced "In-See", but I could be wrong, it's been a year or more since I've watched The Cat's Meow, or any documentaries mentioning him. --Karenthewriter (talk) 19:52, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Try "Insh", very close to "inch." That is what I heard in The Cat's Meow and in various documentaries. Very definitely no second syllable. --Tbrittreid (talk) 21:56, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

My last name is Ince. As a descendant, I can say that it is pronounced as though you were saying "since" ( as in "since yesterday") without the "s"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.9.77.50 (talk) 23:58, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Who formed Triangle Pictures?
In the section on Triangle Pictures, the first paragraph says that it was founded by Ince, Griffith, and Sennett. The following paragraph says that it was founded by the Aitkin Brothers. Which is true? Minaker (talk) 10:46, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * According to the company's own article, it was "envisioned as a prestige studio based on the producing abilities of filmmakers D. W. Griffith, Thomas Ince and Mack Sennett. It was founded by Harry and Roy Aitkin...." --Tbrittreid (talk) 22:01, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Why a memorial?
Why do they now think it's necessary to name a boulevard and theater after Ince? No one alive today knew him, no one who knew him back then saw fit to memorialize him, what's to be gained by doing it now? If he were meant to be remembered, he would have been, like Chaplin, Hearst and Disney. His name is going to be completely meaningless to everyone who sees it, including the people who approve it and put it in place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.229.190.2 (talk) 17:46, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Erroneous Marion Davies Photo Identification
The photo with the description:
 * Marion Davies greets Ince from deck of the "Oneida" moored in San Diego. November 16, 1924

is indeed a photo of Davies, but the photo has nothing to do with Ince, and was published early in 1923, nearly two years before Ince's death. It is a photo of Davies greeting her director, Robert Vignola. See http://archive.org/stream/MorningTelegraphhollywoodColumn1922-1923/Agnew1922-3#page/n71/mode/1up Presumably, this identification error was first made in Hollywood Babylon and has been often repeated since then. Pikabruce (talk) 22:20, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Adding to confusion
This para makes no sense, relative to the text before and after it:

'Three weeks after leaving the Oneida, Ince had died in his "Dias Dorados" estate in Benedict Canyon, officially of a heart attack. Two weeks before his death, Charlie Chaplin, Marion Davies and Hearst visited Ince who believed he would soon be well.'

It sounds like a disembodied part of Chaplin's memoirs. The different versions ought to be separated-out into an itemised list. 109.154.9.232 (talk) 18:17, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Time to start removing unverified text
Almost four years ago this article was tagged with the notice that much of it has no source citations as is required by Wiki rules. Since no one seems to care to spend the time to find and cite WP:RS sources, I think it is time to begin removing un-sourced text. Without the required cites, it remains nothing more than OR material. EditorASC (talk) 00:19, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Who was on-board?
''On Saturday, November 15, he boarded Hearst's lavish 280-foot (85 m) yacht, the Oneida, and set sail from San Pedro, California heading for San Diego. Among Hearst's guests that weekend were his mistress, Marion Davies, silent film star Charlie Chaplin, newspaper columnist Louella Parsons, author Elinor Glyn, film actresses Aileen Pringle, Jacqueline Logan, Seena Owen, Margaret Livingston, and Julanne Johnston; actor, choreographer and ballet dancer Theodore Kosloff and Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, Hearst's film production manager. Ince, the guest of honor as it was his 42nd birthday, was actually late due to the fact that he was still finalizing the production deal with Hearst and the yacht left without him.''
 * 1. ‘Among Hearst’s guests...’ That would need a cite, as several of them denied being on-board.
 * 2. ‘Ince had boarded the yacht on the 15th...’, but then ‘the yacht left without him’.
 * A little clarity please, in these much-muddied waters. Valetude (talk) 20:24, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

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