Douglas Fairbanks

Author : Jeffrey Vance
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520256670

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Douglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey Vance Pdf

"Douglas Fairbanks takes the full measure of the star's remarkable life. Jeffrey Vance bases his portrait on a rich array of sources, including Fairbanks's personal and professional papers and scrapbooks, newly available documentation and rediscovered films, and his own extensive interviews with those who knew or worked with Fairbanks. Engagingly written and sumptuously designed, with 237 photographs, the book goes beyond Fairbanks's public persona to thoroughly explore his art and his far-reaching influence."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tracey Goessel
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613734070

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First King of Hollywood by Tracey Goessel Pdf

The complete, definitive biography of Hollywood's first superstar Douglas Fairbanks was the greatest leading man of his generation—the first and the best of the swashbucklers. He made some of the greatest films of the silent era, including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. With Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and his wife, film star Mary Pickford, he founded United Artists. Pickford and Fairbanks ruled Hollywood as its first king and queen for a decade. Now a cache of newly discovered love letters from Fairbanks to Pickford form the centerpiece of the first truly definitive biography of Hollywood's first king, the original Robin Hood, the true Zorro, the man who did his own stunts, built his own studio, and formed a company that allowed artists to distribute their own wealth outside the studio system. Fairbanks was fun, witty, engaging, creative, athletic, and a force to be reckoned with. He shaped our idea of the Hollywood hero, and it has never been the same since. His story, like his movies, is full of passion, bravado, and romance.

Author : Douglas Fa The Douglas Fairbanks Museum,Keri Leigh,The Douglas Fairbanks Museum
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 9780595397761

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Douglas Fairbanks by Douglas Fa The Douglas Fairbanks Museum,Keri Leigh,The Douglas Fairbanks Museum Pdf

An anthology presented by The Douglas Fairbanks Museum of his writings including his short stories, autobiographical accounts, interviews, personal correspondence, and original story treatments of his classic films, as well as rare photographs, original documents, autographs and vintage memorabilia from the museum's archives.

Author : Douglas Fairbanks,George Creel, Douglas Fairbanks
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781435729209

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Laugh and Live by Douglas Fairbanks,George Creel, Douglas Fairbanks Pdf

Have money chase you, not you chasing it. Douglas Fairbanks reveals his time-tested formula for becoming famous in movies, marrying a Hollywood goddess and having stars as friends. This brief handbook was not written for the money, because he had more than enough, but to show you how to get the most out of life.

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870706845

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Douglas Fairbanks by Alistair Cooke Pdf

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Author : Ralph Hancock,Letitia Fairbanks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493039937

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Douglas Fairbanks by Ralph Hancock,Letitia Fairbanks Pdf

Few people have influenced Hollywood history than Douglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks family historian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was a force of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds from the Broadway stage to silent movies when feature-length film was just a few years old. His happy, healthy characters and acrobatic acting style brought a new energy to the medium. But it was through his extraordinary success as a producer that Fairbanks achieved the goal of all creative people: to run his own show. This he did by co-founding United Artists in 1919 with his soon-to-be wife Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith. As a producer, he showed visionary taste, collaborating with his directors and designers to enact gallant tales in spectacular settings. Whether he played a young man on the go or a swashbuckling hero in a fairy-tale land, Fairbanks—one of the thirty-six founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—put America’s hopes and dreams on film. This updated version of the original 1953 biography has been expanded by the Fairbanks family with archival materials as well as never-before-seen photographs from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library.

Author : John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781626741478

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Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century by John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh Pdf

Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American Century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of films never before examined. Also published here for the first time in English is a first-hand production account of the making of Fairbanks’s last silent film, The Iron Mask,/i>. Fairbanks (1883–1939) was the most vivid and strenuous exponent of the American Century, whose dominant mode after 1900 was the mass marketing of a burgeoning democratic optimism, at home and abroad. During those first decades of the twentieth century, his satiric comedy adventures shadow-boxed with the illusions of class and custom. His characters managed to combine the American Easterner’s experience and pretension and the Westerner’s promise and expansion. As the masculine personification of the Old World aristocrat and the New World self-made man—tied to tradition yet emancipated from history—he constructed a uniquely American aristocrat striding into a new age and sensibility. This is the most complete account yet written of the film career of Douglas Fairbanks, one of the first great stars of the silent American cinema and one of the original United Artists (comprising Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith). John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh’s text is especially rich in its coverage of the early years of the star’s career from 1915 to 1920 and covers in detail several films previously considered lost.

Author : Booton Herndon
Publisher : London : W.H. Allen
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 0491023545

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Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks by Booton Herndon Pdf

Author : Douglas Fairbanks
Publisher : John Curley & Associates
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Large print books
ISBN : 0792718429

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A Hell of a War by Douglas Fairbanks Pdf

Author : Douglas Fairbanks
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : EAN:4057664101235

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Making Life Worth While by Douglas Fairbanks Pdf

Making Life Worth While is a self-help book written by Douglas Fairbanks, American actor and producer, known as The First King of Hollywood. His formula for happiness is simple: humbleness, healthy humor, and physical culture, while his basic message echoes throughout the book: energy and optimism. Nearly everything has to do with such a subject and that is what the book contains—everything in general—and nothing in particular—just such things as came to mind that seemed worthwhile.

Author : John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1626741492

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Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century by John C. Tibbetts,James M. Welsh Pdf

Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American Century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of films never before examined. Also published here for the first time in English is a firsthand production account of the making of Fairbanks's last silent film, The Iron Mask, /i>. Fairbanks (1883-1939) was the most vivid and strenuous exponent of the American Century, whose dominant mode after 1900 was the mass marketing of a burgeoning democratic optimism, at home and abroad. During those first decades of the twentieth century, his satiric comedy adventures shadowboxed with the illusions of class and custom. His characters managed to combine the American Easterner's experience and pretension and the Westerner's promise and expansion. As the masculine personification of the Old World aristocrat and the New World selfmade man--tied to tradition yet emancipated from history--he constructed a uniquely American aristocrat striding into a new age and sensibility. This is the most complete account yet written of the film career of Douglas Fairbanks, one of the first great stars of the silent American cinema and one of the original United Artists (comprising Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith). John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh's text is especially rich in its coverage of the early years of the star's career from 1915 to 1920 and covers in detail several films previously considered lost.

Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015003763904

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His Picture in the Papers by Richard Schickel Pdf

Author : Douglas Fairbanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:67569889

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The True Life Story of Douglas Fairbanks by Douglas Fairbanks Pdf

Author : Anita Loos
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520228948

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Anita Loos Rediscovered by Anita Loos Pdf

"I adored Anita, as did the entire fashion and literary world. She was four feet nine inches of lithe, slender, dramatic chic."—Carol Channing "This book celebrates a character as memorable as any Anita Loos created in her writing. She was an indomitable, wise-cracking prodigy who not only helped create Hollywood, but managed to survive it."—John Sayles "If we can't have the wonderful Anita Loos-smart, witty, literate and fun- writing today's Hollywood movies, at least we can get reacquainted with her and her work through this delightful book. Filled with previously unpublished material, it shows that while gentlemen may have preferred blondes, everyone else in town wisely preferred the irresistible Ms. Loos."—Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times "This is a wonderful book about a talented, fascinating, and groundbreaking woman. Her life epitomizes a certain era in show business and describes a Hollywood in which few women were allowed to rise to the top. Anita Loos did and we were all the beneficiaries. I loved the book!"—Peter Duchin "Not only is it valuable to have these delightful Anita Loos pieces, but the biographical chapters are fascinating too."—Kevin Brownlow, author of David Lean: A Biography

Author : Douglas Fairbanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1176058002

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Douglas Fairbanks by Douglas Fairbanks Pdf