Quentin and Kirk know that the Oscar show had originally been invented by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Charlie Chaplin to prove that the talent – i.e., stars – still ran the show ...

Dashing, handsome and connected, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. had a well-established movie career in 1939. He could easily have spent the war years starring in lighthearted entertainment. Instead, he ...

Fairbanks died of a heart attack aged 56 in 1939, but his name lived on in Hollywood through his movie star son Douglas Fairbanks' Jr., who died in 2000 and whose widow Vera donated the collection.

Douglas Fairbanks' 'Thief of Bagdad,' 'Iron Mask' to screen at Samuel Goldwyn Theater. News. ... Douglas Fairbanks Jr., had produced a new version with the old footage in 1953.

Most audiences know Douglas Fairbanks Jr. only as the suave 1930s movie star with chiseled good looks and pencil-thin mustache, dressed in elegantly cut double-breasted Savile Row lounge suits ...