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Fairbanks, Douglas [né Ulman] (1883–1939), actor. The handsome, flamboyant actor, whose acrobatic antics were as celebrated offstage as on, was born in Denver and made his stage debut in Richmond, Virginia, in 1900 as Florio in The Duke's Jester. His New York debut occurred two years later in Her Lord and Master. After playing “now familiar, breezy, attractive” young men in New York and on the road, major success came as senatorial secretary “Bud” Haines in A Gentleman from Mississippi (1908). He toured with the play for several seasons before portraying the impoverished Philosopher Jack in The Lights o' London (1911), and then amateur crook Robert Pitt in A Gentleman of Leisure (1911). For a time Fairbanks turned his attention to vaudeville but found another legit success as the swashbuckling Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne in Hawthorne of the U.S.A. (1912) and again as Wall Streeter Bertie in The New Henrietta (1913). His last role was the wealthy suitor Jerome Belden in The Show Shop (1914). The rest of Fairbanks's career was spent in films, in which he was long a leading romantic, swashbuckling figure.

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Douglas Fairbanks

Born: May 23, 1883 in Denver, Colorado
Died: Dec 12, 1939 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director
Active: teens-'20s
Major Genres: Adventure, Comedy
Career Highlights: The Thief of Baghdad, Robin Hood, The Three Musketeers
First Major Screen Credit: The Lamb (1915)

Biography

American actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr., instilled with a love of dramatics by his Shakespearean-scholar father, was never fully satisfied with theatrical work. A born athlete and extrovert, Fairbanks felt the borders of the stage were much too confining, even when his theatrical work allowed him to tour the world. The wide-open spaces of the motion picture industry were more his style, and in 1915 Fairbanks jumped at the chance to act in the film version of the old stage perennial The Lamb. Fairbanks became the top moneymaker for the Triangle Film Company, starring in an average of 10 pictures a year for a weekly salary of $2000. He specialized in comedies--not the slapstick variety, but free-wheeling farces in which he usually played a wealthy young man thirsting for adventure.

Fairbanks was a savvy businessman, and in 1919 he reasoned that he could have more control--and a larger slice of the profits -- if he produced as well as starred in his pictures. Working in concert with his actress-wife Mary Pickford (a star in her own right, billed as "America's Sweetheart"), his best friend Charlie Chaplin, and pioneer director D. W. Griffith, Fairbanks formed a new film company, United Artists. The notion of actors making their own movies led one film executive to wail, "The lunatics have taken over the asylum!", but Fairbanks' studio was a sound investment, and soon other actors were dabbling in the production end of the business. Still most successful in contemporary comedies in 1920, Fairbanks decided to try a momentary change of pace, starring in the swashbuckling The Mark of Zorro (1920). The public was enthralled, and for the balance of his silent career Fairbanks specialized in lavish costume epics with plenty of fast-moving stunt work and derring-do. While several of these films still hold their fascination today, notably The Thief of Baghdad (1924) and The Black Pirate (1926), some historians argue that Fairbanks' formerly breezy approach to moviemaking became ponderous, weighed down in too much spectacle for the Fairbanks personality to fully shine.

When talkies came, Fairbanks wasn't intimidated, since he was stage-trained and had a robust speaking voice; unfortunately, his first talking picture, 1929's Taming of the Shrew (in which he co-starred with Mary Pickford), was an expensive failure. Fairbanks' talking pictures failed to click at the box office; even the best of them, such as Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932), seemed outdated rehashes of his earlier silent successes. Fairbanks' last film, the British-made Private Life of Don Juan (1934), unflatteringly revealed his advanced years and his flagging energy. Marital difficulties, unwise investments and health problems curtailed his previously flamboyant lifestyle considerably, though he managed to stave off several takeover bids for United Artists and retained the respect of his contemporaries. Fairbanks died in his sleep, not long after he'd announced plans to come out of retirement. He was survived by his actor son Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who'd inherited much of his dad's professional panache and who after his father's death began a successful career in film swashbucklers on his own. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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In the days of silent films, Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) was the king of dramatic actors. He surged across American motion picture screens performing dangerous stunts such as jumping from one high balcony to another or swinging by a rope from an old pirate ship. Fairbanks was an expert swordsman and handler of guns, a fine athlete, and managed to win the hand of the leading lady with perfect manners in almost every film he made.

Douglas Fairbanks was born in Denver, Colorado on May 23, 1883. He was the son of an alcoholic father who left the family when Douglas was five years old. Born into the Jewish faith, he was taught at an early age to conceal this fact because his family considered it embarrassing. By the time he was just eleven years old, Fairbanks was acting in and around the Denver area. But New York City was where the major actors played. Since he knew already what he wanted to be, Fairbanks moved to New York when he was only seventeen years of age. He planned to sweep into the entertainment business, but instead was forced to take odd jobs to earn enough to eat.

Fairbanks worked as a cattle freighter and as a clerk on Wall Street. In his free time, he haunted the theaters trying to get an acting job. Finally, after two years, he made his Broadway debut as Florio in the Frederick Warde Company's production of The Duke's Jester. He was ambitious, hard working, and developing into an excellent actor, but was still unable to get the starring roles despite his handsome appearance. Success continued to elude him, and he began to question his decision to become an actor.

In 1907, Fairbanks married Anna Beth Sully, owner of the Buchannan Soap Company, with offices in the Flatiron Building on Broadway. His father-in-law wanted Fairbanks to forget the acting business and work for the company. Fairbanks worked for the company for six months, then headed back to the theaters. His timing was good, for the Buchannan Soap Company went out of business shortly after he left.

Fairbanks got a string of minor parts, and was seen by important people, but the lead roles still didn't come. His wife Anna, a former socialite who was not accustomed to poverty, became pregnant. Although the marriage eventually collapsed, she gave birth to a son who was named after his father.

An Offer from Hollywood

Fairbanks received an offer to move West and make "flickers," which is what Broadway actors called the silent films. At first he resisted, but when Hollywood offered over one hundred thousand dollars for a year of movie making, he reluctantly agreed. Fairbanks arrived at the Triangle Film Corporation in 1915, at the age of 31. At first, he failed to impress any of the film people. Director D.W. Griffith, who was assigned to work with Fairbanks, said of the new actor, "He's got a head like a cantaloupe and he can't act."

But Fairbanks proved that he could act, and very well. He made more than 25 films including comedies, romances, westerns, and drawing room satires. None of his early films were the type that made him famous, but they were still quite entertaining. Fairbanks became so popular that he was able to form his own production company, and began producing and writing his own films.

United Artists was Formed

During a tour to sell war bonds in 1917, he met and fell desperately in love with actress Mary Pickford. However, he and Pickford were both married at the time, and having an affair was not acceptable in the early days of film-neither the fans nor the producers would understand. So the two hid their relationship for nearly three years, as both matured into solid actors and business people. In 1919, they formed United Artists with Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, in order to provide an independent distribution channel for artists who produced their own pictures. They hoped to break the practice of "block booking" films into theaters. Fairbanks and Pickford also took the bold step of divorcing their partners and getting married.

For the next few years, Fairbanks made a string of adventure films that have stood the test of time. He made The Mark of Zorro and The Three Musketeers in 1921, Robin Hood in 1922, The Thief of Baghdad in 1924 and The Black Pirate in 1926. These films were extremely expensive, beautiful, and smashing successes. Every detail of each film was handled by Fairbanks, and it was said that you could "feel his heart" in each scene. Pickford, meanwhile, was acting in her own films and becoming increasingly popular as well. The two were quite plainly the "King and Queen" of Hollywood during these years.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

By 1927, Fairbanks was 44 years old and knew he was nearing the end of his acting career. He remained active with the management of his business, forming the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and overseeing the first award ceremony. He was also involved in the opening of Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. The courtyard outside this famous tourist attraction featured the foot and handprints of movie stars, with his own and Pickford's being placed first. Finally, he helped open the Roosevelt Hotel, site of the first Academy Award presentation.

Fairbanks and Pickford lived in a mansion called "Pickfair" in the city of Beverly Hills. Crowds of people hovered around the gates of the estate day and night, each fan hoping to catch a glimpse of the two famous owners riding their horses on the grounds, or boating in the lake on their property. Fairbanks did make some good films at this time. He played the role of a real man with real problems in The Gaucho, The Iron Mask, Reaching for the Moon, and others.

In 1933, to the sadness of film fans, Fairbanks and Pickford announced their retirement from films, and soon after that the breakup of their marriage. They had decided to make a film together, Taming of the Shrew, and it was a disaster. Each blamed the other for the failure. Fairbanks' son, Douglas Jr., was becoming a big star, while his father was fading from the public eye.

After the divorce, Fairbanks married his mistress, Lady Sylvia Ashley. He had been suffering from heart trouble, but in early 1939 started writing a script for a new film in which he planned to star, along with his famous son. The script was never finished. Fairbanks died of a heart attack in his sleep in Santa Monica, California on December 12, 1939.

To show the depth of despair among fans when Fairbanks died, United Press published the following epitaph. "The body of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. lay tonight in an ornately carved bed before a window of his Santa Monica mansion which looked out on the vast Pacific. Through the night and day came a procession of Hollywood great and the forgotten who had worked with and known Fairbanks in his swashbuckling days. For hours Mr. Fairbanks' 150-pound mastiff named Marco Polo whined beside the death bed, refusing to move." The King of Hollywood was gone, and most agreed there would never be another like him.

Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks
Birth name	Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman
Born	May 23 1883(1883--) Denver, Colorado
Died	December 12 1939 (aged 56) Santa Monica, California
Spouse(s)	Anna Beth Sully (1907-1919) Mary Pickford (1920-1936) Edith Louise Sylvia Hawkes (1936-1939)

Early life

He was born Douglas Elton Ullman in Denver, Colorado, the son of Hezekiah Charles Ullman (born September 1833) and Ella Adelaide Marsh (born 1850). His half-brother was John Fairbanks (born 1873); and his full brother was Robert Payne Ullman (March 13, 1882-February 22, 1948).

Fairbanks's father, who was born in Pennsylvania to a Jewish family, was a prominent New York attorney. His mother (a Roman Catholic) was born in New York, and was previously married to a man named John Fairbanks, who left her a widow. She then married a man named Wilcox, who turned out to be abusive. Her divorce was handled by Ullman, whom she later married.

In about 1881, Charles Ullman purchased several mining interests in the Rocky Mountains and relocated the family to Denver, where he re-established his law practice. Ullman abandoned the family when Douglas was five years old, and he and Robert were raised by their mother.

Stage career

Douglas Fairbanks began acting on the Denver stage at an early age, doing amateur theatre. He was in summer stock at the Elitch Gardens Theatre, becoming a sensation in his teens. He attended East Denver High School, and was once expelled for dressing up the campus statues on St. Patrick's Day. He left during his senior year. He said he attended Colorado School of Mines, then Harvard University for a term. No record of attendance has been located, but an article about whether or not he attended Mines recounts a professor once saying Fairbanks was asked to leave because of a prank not long after he began.

He moved to New York in the early 1900s to pursue an acting career, joining the acting troupe of British actor Frederick Warde who had discovered Fairbanks performing in Denver. He worked in a hardware store and as a clerk in a Wall Street office before his Broadway debut in 1902.

On July 11, 1907 in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, he married Anna Beth Sully, the daughter of wealthy industrialist, Daniel J. Sully. They had one son, Douglas Elton Fairbanks (actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who was born on December 9, 1909 and who died on May 7, 2000). The family moved to Hollywood in 1915.

Motion Pictures

Fairbanks signed a contract with Triangle Pictures in 1915 and began working under the supervision of D.W. Griffith. His athletic abilities were not appreciated by Griffith, however, and he was brought to the attention of Anita Loos and John Emerson, who wrote and directed many of his early romantic comedies.

He met actress and businesswoman Mary Pickford at a party in 1916 and they began having an affair. In 1917, they, along with Charlie Chaplin, traveled across the U.S. by train selling war bonds. Pickford and Chaplin were then the two highest paid movie stars in Hollywood. Fairbanks set up his own production company, the Douglas Fairbanks Film Corporation. Within eighteen months of his arrival, Fairbanks' popularity and business acumen raised him up to be the third highest paid. To curtail these stars' astronomical salaries, the large studios attempted to monopolize the distributors and exhibitors.

On December 1, 1918 in New Rochelle, New York, Sully won an interlocutory decree of divorce from Fairbanks, as well as custody of their son. The record of testimony referred to the co-respondent as "an unknown woman." The decree was made final March 5, 1919.

To avoid being controlled by the studios and to protect their independence, Fairbanks, Pickford, Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith formed United Artists in 1919, which created their own distributorships and gave them complete artistic control over their movies and the profits generated. The company was kept solvent in the years immediately after its formation largely from the success of Fairbanks' films.

Fairbanks was determined to have Pickford become his wife, but she was still married to actor Owen Moore. They were both concerned about bad publicity and the effect it could have on the moviegoing public, who might boycott their efforts at the theater should they marry each other. He finally gave her an ultimatum. She then obtained a fast divorce in the small Nevada town of Minden on March 2, 1920. Fairbanks leased the Beverly Hills mansion Grayhall and was rumoured to have used it during his courtship of Pickford. (Grayhall was subsequently owned by, among others, the financier Bernard Cornfeld.)

The couple were married March 28, 1920, by the pastor of Temple Baptist Church, at his residence on West Fourth Street in Los Angeles. Pickford's divorce from Moore was contested by Nevada legislators, however, and the dispute was not settled until 1922. Even though the lawmakers objected to the marriage, the public went wild over the idea of "Everybody's Hero" marrying "America's Sweetheart." The couple was greeted by crowds of up to 300,000 people in London and Paris during their European honeymoon, becoming Hollywood's first celebrity marriage.

During the years they were married, Fairbanks and Pickford were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty," and they were famous for entertaining at their Beverly Hills estate, Pickfair. Sir Harry Lauder's nephew, Matt C. Lauder Jr., (1899-1972), a professional golfer who owned a property near Pasadena, California, taught Fairbanks to play golf.

The Mark of Zorro

By 1920, Fairbanks had completed twenty-nine films (twenty-eight features and one two-reel short), which showcased his ebullient screen persona and athletic ability. By 1920, he had the inspiration of staging a new type of adventure-costume picture, a genre that was then out of favor with the public. In the The Mark of Zorro, Fairbanks combined his appealing screen persona with the new adventureous, costume element. It was a smash success and parlayed the actor into the rank of superstar. For the remainder of his career in silent films, he continued to produce and star in ever more elaborate, impressive costume movies. Fairbanks spared no expense and effort in these films, which established the standard for all future swashbucking films.

In 1921, he, Pickford, Chaplin, and others, helped to organize the Motion Picture Fund to assist those in the industry who could not work, or were unable to meet their bills.

During the first ceremony of its type, he and Pickford placed their hand and foot prints in wet cement at the newly opened Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on April 30, 1927. Fairbanks was elected first President of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences that same year, and he hosted the first Academy Awards presentation (then held as a banquet, rather than today's big ceremony). Fairbanks' also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7020 Hollywood Boulevard.

Douglas Fairbanks as the title role in Robin Hood (1922).

His last silent film was The Iron Mask (1929). Although Fairbanks flourished in the silent film genre, the restrictions of early sound films dulled his enthusiasm for movie-making. Also, his althletic abilities and general health began to decline at this time, in part due to years of heavy chain-smoking. He and Pickford chose to make their first talkie as a joint venture, playing Petruchio and Kate in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1929). This film, and his subsequent sound films, were poorly received by the public. The last movie he acted in was the British production The Private Life of Don Juan (1934), after which he retired from acting.

Final Years

After he began an affair with Lady Sylvia Ashley, Fairbanks and Pickford separated in 1933. Fairbanks, Sr. and Mary Pickford divorced in 1936, with her keeping Pickfair. On March 7, 1936, in Paris, France, he and Ashley were married.

He continued to be marginally involved in motion picture industry and United Artists, but his later years lacked the intense focus of his film years. His health continued to decline, and in his final years he resided at 705 Ocean Front (now Pacific Coast Highway) in Santa Monica, California, although much of his time was spent traveling abroad with Sylvia.

In December, 1939, at 56, Fairbanks had a heart attack in his sleep and died a day later at his home in Santa Monica. By some accounts, he had been obsessively working-out against medical advice, trying to regain his once-trim waistline. Fairbanks famous last words were "I've never felt better." ¹ His funeral service was held at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather Church at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, where he was placed in a crypt in the Great Mausoleum.

He was deeply mourned and honored by his colleagues and fans for his contributions to the film industry and Hollywood. Two years following his death, he was removed from Forest Lawn by his widow, who commissioned an elaborate marble monument for him, with long rectangular reflecting pool, raised tomb, and classic Greek architecture, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The remains of his son Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. were also interred here upon his death in 2000.

There is a witty reference to him in the David Lean film A Passage to India (set in Edwardian India) in which one of the characters performs acrobatic feats on the side of a train calling, "I am Douglas Fairbanks!"

1Robinson, R. (2003). Famous Last Words. New York: Workman Publishing, pg. 1.

Filmography

Actor

The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) .... Don Juan
Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932) .... Steve Drexel
Reaching for the Moon (1930) .... Larry Day
Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1 (1930) .... (episode "Welches ist ihr Typ")
The Taming of the Shrew (1929) .... Petruchio
The Iron Mask (1929) .... D'Artagnan
The Gaucho (1927) .... The Gaucho
The Black Pirate (1926) .... The Black Pirate
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) (uncredited) .... Crowd extra in chariot race
Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925) .... Don Cesar de Vega/Zorro
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) .... The Thief of Bagdad
Robin Hood (1922) .... Earl of Huntingdon/Robin Hood
The Three Musketeers (1921) .... D'Artagnan
The Nut (1921) .... Charlie Jackson
The Mark of Zorro (1920) .... Don Diego Vega/Señor Zorro
The Mollycoddle (1920) .... Richard Marshall III, IV and V
When the Clouds Roll by (1919) .... Daniel Boone Brown
His Majesty, the American (1919) .... William Brooks
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919) .... Teddy Drake
Arizona (1918) .... Lt. Denton
Sic 'Em, Sam (1918) .... Democracy
He Comes Up Smiling (1918) .... Jerry Martin
Bound in Morocco (1918) .... George Travelwell
Say! Young Fellow (1918) .... The Young Fellow
Mr. Fix-It (1918) .... Dick Remington
Headin' South (1918) .... Headin' South
A Modern Musketeer (1917) .... Ned Thacker
Reaching for the Moon (1917) .... Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown
The Man from Painted Post (1917) .... 'Fancy Jim' Sherwood
Down to Earth (1917) .... Billy Gaynor
Wild and Woolly (1917) .... Jeff Hillington
In Again, Out Again (1917/II) .... Teddy Rutherford
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan (1917)
The Americano (1916) .... Blaze Derringer
The Matrimaniac (1916) .... Jimmie Conroy
American Aristocracy (1916) .... Cassius Lee
Manhattan Madness (1916) .... Steve O'Dare
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) (uncredited) .... Man on White Horse (French Story)
The Half-Breed (1916) .... Lo Dorman
Flirting with Fate (1916) .... Augy Holliday
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) .... Coke Ennyday
Reggie Mixes In (1916) .... Reggie Van Deuzen
The Good Bad Man (1916) .... Passin' Through
The Habit of Happiness (1916) .... Sunny Wiggins
His Picture in the Papers (1916) .... Pete Prindle
Double Trouble (1915) .... Florian Amidon/Eugene Brassfield
Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)
The Lamb (1915) .... Gerald

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Crime Over London (1936) (producer)
Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932) (producer)
Reaching for the Moon (1930) (producer) (uncredited)
The Iron Mask (1929) (producer)
The Gaucho (1927) (producer)
The Black Pirate (1926) (producer)
Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925) (producer)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (producer)
Robin Hood (1922) (producer)
The Three Musketeers (1921) (producer)
The Nut (1921) (producer)
The Mark of Zorro (1920) (executive producer)
When the Clouds Roll by (1919) (producer)
His Majesty, the American (1919) (producer)
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919) (producer)
Arizona (1918) (producer)
He Comes Up Smiling (1918) (producer)
Bound in Morocco (1918) (producer)
Say! Young Fellow (1918) (producer)
Mr. Fix-It (1918) (producer)
Headin' South (1918) (producer)
A Modern Affair (1917) (producer)
Reaching for the Moon (1917) (producer)
Down to Earth (1917) (producer)
In Again, Out Again (1917/II) (producer)

Writer

Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932) (story) (as Elton Thomas)
The Iron Mask (1929) (also story) (also titles) (as Elton Thomas)
The Gaucho (1927) (story) (as Elton Thomas)
The Black Pirate (1926) (story) (as Elton Thomas)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (as Elton Thomas) (story)
Robin Hood (1922) (story) (as Elton Thomas)
The Three Musketeers (1921)
The Nut (1921) (as Elton Thomas)
The Mark of Zorro (1920) (scenario) (uncredited)
The Mollycoddle (1920) (uncredited)
When the Clouds Roll by (1919) (story) (uncredited)
His Majesty, the American (1919) (as Elton Banks) (scenario)
The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919) (as Elton Banks) (story) (as Elton Banks)
Arizona (1918)
Bound in Morocco (1918) (also story) (as Elton Thomas)
The Man from Painted Post (1917) (scenario)
Down to Earth (1917) (story)
The Good Bad Man (1916)

Director

Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks (1931) (as Douglas Fairbanks Sr.)
Arizona (1918)

Trivia

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He was portrayed by Kevin Kline in the 1992 film Chaplin.

In the song "Who Killed Mr. Moonlight?" on the album Burning from the Inside by Bauhaus, there is a reference to "Douglas Fairbanks stunts".

Fairbanks celebrated youth and vitality, and said he hoped he wouldn't live to see fifty.

British singer Kate Bush mentions the actor in the song 'Moments Of Pleasure' (1993). She sings about meeting 'The Red Shoes' director Michael Powell: "he meets us at the lift, like Douglas Fairbanks, waving his walking stick - but he isn't well at all"

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