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Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. [1] (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked Vigilante Zorro [2] and other swashbuckling roles in silent films.
Lady Ashley died of cancer on 29 June 1977 at age 73 in Los Angeles. She is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood; her grave is 680 feet north of that of her second husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., at the north end of the "Garden of Legends", aka "Section 8".
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best-known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939), and The Corsican Brothers (1941).
With fourth wife Sylvia Ashley. Sylvia Ashley . In 1949, Gable married Sylvia Ashley, an English model and actress who was the widow of Douglas Fairbanks; the couple divorced in 1952. [121] Kay Spreckels
October 22 – Beth Fairbanks, the wife of Douglas Fairbanks, files for divorce on grounds of infidelity, without naming a correspondent [169] September 12–16 – The Battle of Saint-Mihiel is fought; the American Expeditionary Forces under General John J. Pershing score an allied victory [ 170 ]
Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith, with whom Mary Pickford founded United Artists in 1919. In 1916, Pickford and Constance Adams DeMille, wife of director Cecil B. DeMille, helped found the Hollywood Studio Club, a dormitory for young women involved in the motion picture business. [14]
Frequent habitues and occasional visitors included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Harpo Marx, Clark Gable, Calvin Coolidge, Winston Churchill, Charles Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart, among others. [42] As the years passed, Hearst's relentless efforts to promote Davies' career purportedly had a detrimental effect. [22]
Their romance had begun in 1927, when they co-starred in My Best Girl, [6] but the two kept their relationship hidden until Pickford's separation and 1936 divorce from Douglas Fairbanks. [7] The couple adopted two children—Roxanne and Ronald—and remained married for 42 years until Pickford's death in 1979. [8] [9]