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  Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fairbanks was determined to have Pickford become his wife, but she was still married to actor Owen Moore.
Fairbanks was elected first President of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences that same year, and he hosted the first Academy Awards ceremony.
Douglas Fairbanks' hand and foot prints are immortalized in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7020 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Fairbanks became noted for his swashbuckling roles in such films as The Black Pirate, The Mark of Zorro, Arizona, Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad and The Three Musketeers.
She was devoted to the great indoors, to her milky white skin, her flawless complexion, loathed the thought of animals being slaughtered, was happiest among the chattering chic of café society and owned a Chihuahua the size of a mouse called Minnie.
Douglas Fairbanks died in 1939 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
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 Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) - Encyclopedia, History and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Black Pirate (1926).
He was born Douglas Elton Ulman in Denver, Colorado, the son of Hezekiah Charles Ulman (born September 1833) and Ella Adelaide Marsh (born 1850).
Fairbanks was determined to have Pickford become his wife, but she was still legally married to actor Owen Moore.
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 Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Fairbanks became noted for his swashbuckling roles in such films as The Black Pirate, The Mark of Zorro[?], Arizona[?] and The Three Musketeers[?].
Born Douglas Elton Thomas Ulman in Denver, Colorado, he was raised by his mother after his parents divorced.
He was the father of actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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 wiki/Douglas Fairbanks, Sr Definition / wiki/Douglas Fairbanks, Sr Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years).
Fairbanks signed a contractA contract is any promise or set of promises made by one party to another for the breach of which the law provides a remedy.
During the years they were married, Fairbanks and Pickford were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty," and they were famous for entertaining at their Beverly Hills estate, PickfairPickfair was the name of the Hollywood mansion home of silent film actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.
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 Encyclopedia: Douglas Fairbanks, Sr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883–December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
He was born Douglas Elton Ulman in Denver, Colorado, the son of Hezekiah Charles Ulman (born September 1835) and Ella Adelaide Marsh (born 1850).
During the years of their marriage, Fairbanks and Pickford were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty," and they became famous for entertaining at their Beverly Hills estate, Pickfair.
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 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: I suppose the most surprising was the fact that as a fine tragedian and technical actress, in private life she had a wonderful sense of humor!
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: No. The surprising thing was that she did have a good sense of humor, a very up-to-date sense of humor.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: I used to call on her and hold her hand in the bed, and she was very patriotic, as I think I mentioned.
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 Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
Fairbanks began appearing in amateur theater in Denver, CO, at the age of 12, and he continued on the stage while attending the Colorado School of Mines.
Fairbanks next appeared in "Reaching for the Moon" (1930), a musical comedy featuring a young Bing Crosby in one of his first film roles, then attempted to revive his swashbucking ways in "The Private Life of Don Juan" (1934).
Fairbanks was of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and served as the organization's first president.
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 The Douglas Fairbanks Museum - Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Biography
Douglas was already quite familiar with motion pictures, or "the flickers" as they were known among the "real actors" of Broadway, who scoffed at this new phenomenon.
Fairbanks was too old for active service in the war, and instead threw himself into the task of making propaganda films for the Allies to drum up public support for the troops.
Leigh is Founder and Curator of the Douglas Fairbanks Museum, and is currently penning a new biography of Douglas Fairbanks, to be released in the fall of 2005.
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 Portrait of the actor Douglas Fairbanks sr. by Thomas Staedeli
The actor Douglas Fairbanks began at an amateur theater at the age of 12 and continued his career during the school time.
Douglas Fairbanks belonged to the 36 foundation members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1928 and he became the first president.
Douglas Fairbanks was not only an actor, but also produced a lot of his movies and he wrote scripts with his pseudonym Elton Thomas.
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 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Fairbanks would develop this theme throughout his films of the teens, both with director Allan Dwan in films such as The Half Breed (1916) and Manhattan Madness (1916), and with director John Emerson and screenwriter Anita Loos in His Picture in the Papers (1916) and The Americano (1916).
Fairbanks was relatively successful in talkies (making his sound debut with Pickford in The Taming of the Shrew in 1929), and he was named the president of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts, and Sciences in 1927.
Though many of his friends said Fairbanks was content in his third marriage, it also was reported that the star spent many an afternoon sitting by the pool at Pickfair repeatedly mumbling his apologies to Pickford.
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 Academy Library Acquires Collection of Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
The announcement was made by Vera Fairbanks, widow of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., at the Academy's 75th Anniversary kick-off gala held at the Library in May. Mrs.
Among the original 8-by-10 still negatives are portraits of Fairbanks from the films "The Three Musketeers" (1921) and "Robin Hood" (1922).
The showcase piece of the paper part of the collection is an elaborate scrapbook compiled after Fairbanks' death in 1939.
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 Douglas Fairbanks Jr | Actors | Movie Forum
Though Fairbanks was cut from the same swashbuckling cloth as his silent era start father, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, he never made as great an impression amongst the movie going public.
With acting in his blood, his mother (Fairbanks Sr's first wife) Anna Beth Sully was an actor too (his stepmother, "America's Sweetheart", Mary Pickford), it was perhaps inevitable that he would enter the profession and this he did, starting out as a juvenile lead at the age of 13.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr's leading lady in this movie was the wonderful Maureen O'Hara, another star who seemed made for such roles.
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 History-Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was that most remarkable screen actor in the 1920's and 30's.
A fencer through and through, Fairbanks' relation to USC extended from his friendship with dueling partner and USC's President, Rufus von KleinSmid.
The ingredients - character archetypes, elaborate sets, acrobatic set-piece fights and stunts, stylized content - were definitely set by Doug's films in that unforgettable series that began with "The Mark of Zorro" in 1920 and ended with "The Iron Mask" nine years later.
www-scf.usc.edu /~fencing/Fairbanks.htm   (661 words)

  
 Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Douglas Fairbanks (de mayo el 23, 1883-December 12, 1939) era agente, guionista, director y un productor americanos.
Fairbanks y Maria Pickford casaron de marcha la 18 de 1920.
Durante los años de su matrimonio, miraron a Fairbanks y Pickford como los "derechos de Hollywood," y ellos llegaron a ser famosos por entretener en su estado de las colinas de Beverly, Pickfair.
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 The Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Homepage
Douglas Fairbanks, a silent film star of the early 20th century, made
Douglas Fairbanks Sr., started this film with his co-star and wife in 1929.
The Taming of the Shrew, age 46 for Fairbanks, would be one of his last, out of his 4 films yet to be made before he quit Showbiz and was never in a leading role again.
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 Biography for Douglas Fairbanks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lured once again to the stage, Fairbanks reestablished himself in short order and became a Broadway favorite in such plays as "The New Henrietta" and "Officer 666." He was nearly signed for films by the Lasky Feature Play Company in 1914, but ultimately made his film debut in The Lamb for Triangle-Fine Arts in 1915.
Fairbanks retired from the screen on a grace note, appearing as the aging lover in Alexander Korda's British production of The Private Life of Don Juan (1934).
Ever restless in his later years, Fairbanks was divorced by Pickford in 1936 and married Lady Sylvia Ashley, a chorus girl by training and a lady by marriage.
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 A Tribute to Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
As the son of Douglas Fairbanks, (Douglas Fairbanks of silent movie fame) Douglas has been overshadowed by his father's legend but he is a movie star in his own right.
Fairbanks epitomizes the essence of Hollywood in its heyday of the 1930's.
Fairbanks Buster Keaton Interview is an interview with Doug about the famous silent film star.
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 Douglas Fairbanks Sr.-Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Balustrades were made to be vaulted, draperies to be a giant slide, chandeliers to swing from, citadels to be scaled.
There wasn't a small boy in the neighborhood who did not, in a Fairbanks picture, see himself triumphing over the local bully, winning the soft-eyed adoration of whatever ten-year-old blonde he had been courting, and wreaking vengeance on the teacher who made him stand in the corner that afternoon.
Fairbanks' 150-pound mastiff Marco Polo whined beside the death bed, refusing to move....
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 Porträt des Schauspielers Douglas Fairbanks sr. by Thomas Staedeli
Aus dieser Ehe stammte der Schauspieler Douglas Fairbanks jr.
In den 20er Jahren avancierte Douglas Fairbanks zu einem Superstar des Kinos, der als romantischer Held eine grosse Fangemeinschaft um sich scharte und mit artistischem Können das Publikum beeindruckte.
Douglas Fairbanks gehörte zu den 36 Gründungsmitgliedern der Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences im Jahre 1928 und wurde deren erster Präsident.
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 Press Release :: Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Memorial :: May 23, 2004 :: Hollywood, CA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Douglas Fairbanks Sr played a pivotal role in the development of modern film arts.
Morgan will give a short talk about Douglas Fairbanks and early film, and piratical sea chanties will be sung by costumed pirates.
The Fairbanks Memorial follows in the wake of renewed interest in silent film.
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 MARY PICKFORD - ANNOTATED SIGNATURE(S) 06/19/1924 CO-SIGNED BY: DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS SR.
The most popular star of the silent era, she co-founded United Artists in 1919 with Charles Chaplin, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS (1883-1939) and D.W. Griffith.
Fairbanks starred in comedies and westerns in the 1910s and then in very popular swashbucklers during the 1920s.
Pickford and Fairbanks separated in 1933 and divorced in 1936.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/11_2001/actors/MARY_PICKFORD.htm   (190 words)

  
 Douglas Fairbanks, Sr and the United Artist Theater...by Dr. Gene Scott, Ph.D, Stanford University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Douglas Fairbanks Sr, came to Hollywood as a stage performer from New York.
Fairbanks immensely enjoyed making movies from the start of his screen career in 1915.
By the time United Artists (the company he co-founded, with Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith in 1919, and actively participated in) was operating very successfully, he found his niche in costume pictures.
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 Douglas Fairbanks Collection Volume 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I must confess myself a real big fan of Fairbanks and his 'big' acting style.
Each one of them a technical marvel in every phase of filmmaking, and Fairbanks himself just lovingly chewing on the scenery.
I hope you too will see the amazing qualities of these pictures that demand many repeat views (Image promises a Volume 2 with The Matrimaniac, The Mark Of Zorro, Don Q Son Of Zorro, The Nut and The Iron Mask sometime next year).
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 Douglas Fairbanks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr., was born December 9th, 1909, in New York.
The actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., gave it to his wife, the silent-film actress Mary Pickford.
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 FilmStew.com • Herrick Library Gets Fairbanks Collection
Vera Fairbanks, widow of filmmaker Douglas Fairbanks Jr., announced at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 75th annual kick-off gala that she would be donating the personal collection of photographs and papers of film star-producer Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
One of the most significant collections to ever be housed at the Library, the collection includes nearly 3,000 photographs and about 200 original negatives that chronicle Fairbanks' career.
The photos also take audiences back to when Fairbanks was a stage performer on Broadway, and many personal photos, including those of Fairbanks and Pickford on their honeymoon, are included.
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