Douglas Fairbanks - The Fourth Musketeer

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.

About the author

By Ralph Hancock and Letitia Fairbanks - Edited by Kelley Smoot Garrett

Product details

• Authors: Letitia Fairbanks, Kelley Smoot Garrett, Ralph Hancock, Ralph Fairbanks Hancock, Hancock Ralph
• Assisted by: Kelley Smoot Garrett (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781493039920
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-3992-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Individual actors & performers, Individual actors and performers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Scripts & Screenplays, Film scripts and screenplays, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director