{{Short description|1916 silent film by Christy Cabanne}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Reggie Mixes In | image = Reggie Mixes In (1916) poster.jpg | alt = Vintage movie poster showing Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love | caption = 1916 theatrical poster | director = Christy Cabanne | producer = | screenplay = Robert Baker | story = Roy Somerville | starring = {{Plainlist| * Douglas Fairbanks * Bessie Love }} | music = | cinematography = William Fildew | studio = Fine Arts Film Company | distributor = Triangle Film Corporation | released = {{Film date|1916|6|11|U.S.}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }}
'''''Reggie Mixes In''''', also known as '''''Facing the Music''''',<ref>{{cite book |last=Love |first=Bessie |author-link=Bessie Love |year=1977 |title=From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love |location=London |publisher=Elm Tree Books |oclc=734075937 |page=148}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/pictureshow191901unse/page/n569 |magazine=The Picture Show |date=October 11, 1919 |volume=24 |title=Answers to Correspondents}}</ref> is a 1916 American silent action/comedy-drama film starring Douglas Fairbanks and directed by Christy Cabanne.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qgbAQAAMAAJ |date=June 24, 1916 |magazine=The Moving Picture World |page=223 |title=Music for the Picture |volume=28}}</ref> The film was produced by Fine Arts Film Company and distributed by Triangle Film Corporation.<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/ReggieMixesIn1916.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''Reggie Mixes In'' |website=Silent Era |access-date=February 15, 2015 |last=Bennett |first=Carl |date=September 24, 2013}}</ref> The film is extant and in the public domain.<ref name="silentera" />
==Plot== thumb|right|alt=Black and white film still showing actors in period costume|Film still thumb|alt=Black and white film still showing Douglas Fairbanks|Film still Wealthy Reggie Morton (Fairbanks) falls in love with Agnes Shannon (Love), a dancer on the Bowery, and takes a job as a bouncer to be near her. His rival is Tony Bernard (Lowery), the leader of a gang, whose henchmen attack Reggie. Reggie fights them off, and then fights the gang leader in an empty warehouse to determine the winner of Agnes's love.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/laughlive00fairiala |title=Laugh and Love |last1=Fairbanks |first1=Douglas |author-link1=Douglas Fairbanks |last2=Creel |first2=George |author-link2=George Creel |date=1917 |page=[https://archive.org/details/laughlive00fairiala/page/174 174]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/descatal01path/page/12 |chapter=''Reggie Mixes In'' |pages=13–14 |title=Descriptive Catalogue of Pathescope De Luxe Special Features |publisher=Pathescope Co. of America, Inc.}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qgbAQAAMAAJ |magazine=The Moving Picture World |date=June 17, 1916 |page=2112 |volume=28 |title=Triangle Film Corporation}}</ref>
==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Douglas Fairbanks as Reggie Morton * Bessie Love as Agnes Shannon * Joseph Singleton as Old Pickleface * William Lowery as Tony Bernard * Wilbur Higby as Gallagher * Allan Sears as Sylvester Ringrose * Lillian Langdon as Reggie's Aunt Susan * Alma Rubens as Lemona Reighley * Alberta Lee as Agnes' Mother * Tom Wilson as The Bouncer }}
==Production== The working title for the film was ''The Bouncer''. The film was predominantly made in a studio,<ref>{{cite book |title=First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks |first=Tracey |last=Goessel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKeBCgAAQBAJ |publisher=Chicago Review Press |date=October 1, 2015 |isbn=978-1-61373-407-0}}</ref> although some scenes were filmed in Newport in Orange County in 1916.<ref>{{cite book |title=Great Movies Shot in Orange County |first=Jim |last=Sleeper |location=Trabuco Canyon, CA |publisher=California Classics |date=1980 |oclc=7358612 |chapter=Saltwater Taffy |page=44}}</ref>
==Reception== Douglas Fairbanks received positive reviews for his performance, while Bessie Love's reviews were mixed.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/05/29/archives/tests-a-new-gasoline-edisons-man-finds-mysterious-mixture-put-in.html |date=May 29, 1916 |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Tests a New 'Gasoline.'; Edison's Man Finds Mysterious Mixture Put in Water Was Acetone |quote=Miss Love has some skill to commend her as a movie actress, but she should learn that panting in a close-up doesn't resemble deep emotion.}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qgbAQAAMAAJ |date=June 10, 1916 |magazine=The Moving Picture World |page=1893 |quote=she scores heavily in the part |title=Triangle Stars on June List}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{IMDb title|0007257}} * {{AFI film|14304}} * {{TCMDb title|553100}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160819025533/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b41c4cf Reggie Mixes In] at British Film Institute
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