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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 ]
In 1916, Fairbanks established his own company, the Douglas Fairbanks Film Corporation, [11] and would soon get a job at Paramount. [11] Fairbanks speaking in front of a crowd at a 1918 war bond drive in New York City. Fairbanks met actress Mary Pickford at a party in 1916, and the couple soon began
English: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford leaving for France. The child is Mary Pickford Rupp, the daughter of Lottie Pickford (Mary Pickford's sister). Fairbanks is holding a D'Artagnan doll from his role in the film The Three Musketeers (1921).
Located at 1143 Summit Drive in San Ysidro Canyon in Beverly Hills, the property was a hunting lodge [5] when purchased by Fairbanks in 1919 for his bride-to-be, Mary Pickford. In the 1920s, the newlyweds extensively renovated the lodge, transforming it into a four-story, 25-room [ 4 ] mansion complete with stables, servants quarters, tennis ...
United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks. This is a list of feature films originally produced or distributed by United Artists, including those made overseas.
The Taming of the Shrew is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Sam Taylor and starring Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks. It was the first sound film adaptation of the Shakespearean play of the same name .
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).