Millard Webb

{{short description|American film director}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Millard Webb

| image = Mary Eaton and Millard Webb marriage 1929.jpg

| caption = Mary Eaton and Millard Webb on their wedding day.

| birth_date = {{birth date|1893|12|06}}

| birth_place = Clay City, Kentucky, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1935|04|21|1893|12|06}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| burial_place = Forest Lawn Memorial Park

| occupation = Screenwriter, film director

| years_active = 1916–1933

| spouse = {{married|Lydia Stocking|1918|1923|reason=death}}

{{married|Mary Eaton|1929}}

| children = 1

}}

Millard Webb (December 6, 1893 – April 21, 1935) was an American screenwriter and director who directed 20 films between 1920 and 1933. His best-known film is the 1926 silent John Barrymore adventure The Sea Beast, a version of Moby Dick,{{cite news |url=https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/cultura/2010-08-01/capitano-achab-approda-parlamento-152023.shtml?refresh_ce=1 |title=Se il capitano Achab approda in Parlamento |first=Davide |last=Rondoni |date=August 1, 2010 |access-date=April 5, 2019 |newspaper=Il Sole 24 Ore |language=it}} costarring Dolores Costello.{{cite web |url=https://theconversation.com/en-1926-le-combat-pour-le-droit-a-la-libre-critique-des-films-86810 |title=En 1926, le combat pour le droit à la libre critique des films |date=November 5, 2017 |access-date=April 5, 2019 |language=fr |work=The Conversation}} Webb also directed the early sound Florenz Ziegfeld produced talkie Glorifying the American Girl released by Paramount in 1929.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=czQlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA366 |title=The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender |first=Kristin Lené |last=Hole |first2=Dijana |last2=Jelača |first3=E. Ann |last3=Kaplan |first4=Patrice |last4=Petro |publisher=Taylor & Francis |date=November 10, 2016 |page=366 |isbn=978-1-317-40805-5}} In 1927 he directed Naughty but Nice, produced by John McCormick and First National Pictures.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k3lp2ftWpgwC&pg=PT349 |title=Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood |first=Emily W. |last=Leider |publisher=University of California Press |year=2011 |page=349 |isbn=978-0-520-25320-9}} His active years were from 1916 to 1933.

He was married to Lydia Stocking (1918–1923). Mary Eaton married Webb in 1929, but they separated.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wDzGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA336 |title=Silent Movies & Early Sound Films on DVD: New Expanded Edition |first=John Howard |last=Reid |publisher=Lulu.com |date=August 1, 2011 |page=336 |isbn=978-0-557-43335-3}}

He was born in Clay City, Kentucky, U.S., and died in Los Angeles, California of intestinal ailment at the age of 41.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/04/22/archives/millard-webb.html |title=Millard Webb |date=April 22, 1935 |access-date=March 16, 2019 |newspaper=NY Times |publisher=The New York Times Company |page=17}}