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Douglas Fairbanks

Author : Jeffrey Vance
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520256675
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Douglas Fairbanks written by Jeffrey Vance and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Douglas Fairbanks takes the full measure of the star's remarkable life. Jeffrey Vance bases his portrait on a rich array of sources, including Fairbanks's personal and professional papers and scrapbooks, newly available documentation and rediscovered films, and his own extensive interviews with those who knew or worked with Fairbanks. Engagingly written and sumptuously designed, with 237 photographs, the book goes beyond Fairbanks's public persona to thoroughly explore his art and his far-reaching influence."--BOOK JACKET.

First King of Hollywood

Author : Tracey Goessel
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613734077
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book First King of Hollywood written by Tracey Goessel and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete, definitive biography of Hollywood's first superstar Douglas Fairbanks was the greatest leading man of his generation—the first and the best of the swashbucklers. He made some of the greatest films of the silent era, including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. With Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and his wife, film star Mary Pickford, he founded United Artists. Pickford and Fairbanks ruled Hollywood as its first king and queen for a decade. Now a cache of newly discovered love letters from Fairbanks to Pickford form the centerpiece of the first truly definitive biography of Hollywood's first king, the original Robin Hood, the true Zorro, the man who did his own stunts, built his own studio, and formed a company that allowed artists to distribute their own wealth outside the studio system. Fairbanks was fun, witty, engaging, creative, athletic, and a force to be reckoned with. He shaped our idea of the Hollywood hero, and it has never been the same since. His story, like his movies, is full of passion, bravado, and romance.

Laugh and Live

Author : Douglas Fairbanks
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Laugh and Live written by Douglas Fairbanks and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1917 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Douglas Fairbanks

Author : Ralph Hancock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493039938
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Douglas Fairbanks written by Ralph Hancock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Douglas Fairbanks

Author : Douglas Fa The Douglas Fairbanks Museum
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059539776X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Douglas Fairbanks written by Douglas Fa The Douglas Fairbanks Museum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology presented by The Douglas Fairbanks Museum of his writings including his short stories, autobiographical accounts, interviews, personal correspondence, and original story treatments of his classic films, as well as rare photographs, original documents, autographs and vintage memorabilia from the museum's archives.

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks

Author : Booton Herndon
Publisher : London : W.H. Allen
ISBN 13 : 9780491023542
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (235 download)

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Book Synopsis Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks by : Booton Herndon

Download or read book Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks written by Booton Herndon and published by London : W.H. Allen. This book was released on 1978 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Douglas Fairbanks

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 9780870706844
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Douglas Fairbanks written by Alistair Cooke and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay by Alistair Cooke.

Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century

Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626741492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century written by John C. Tibbetts and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American Century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of films never before examined. Also published here for the first time in English is a firsthand production account of the making of Fairbanks's last silent film, The Iron Mask, /i>. Fairbanks (1883-1939) was the most vivid and strenuous exponent of the American Century, whose dominant mode after 1900 was the mass marketing of a burgeoning democratic optimism, at home and abroad. During those first decades of the twentieth century, his satiric comedy adventures shadowboxed with the illusions of class and custom. His characters managed to combine the American Easterner's experience and pretension and the Westerner's promise and expansion. As the masculine personification of the Old World aristocrat and the New World selfmade man--tied to tradition yet emancipated from history--he constructed a uniquely American aristocrat striding into a new age and sensibility. This is the most complete account yet written of the film career of Douglas Fairbanks, one of the first great stars of the silent American cinema and one of the original United Artists (comprising Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith). John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh's text is especially rich in its coverage of the early years of the star's career from 1915 to 1920 and covers in detail several films previously considered lost.

Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century

Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626741476
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century written by John C. Tibbetts and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American Century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of films never before examined. Also published here for the first time in English is a first-hand production account of the making of Fairbanks’s last silent film, The Iron Mask,/i>. Fairbanks (1883–1939) was the most vivid and strenuous exponent of the American Century, whose dominant mode after 1900 was the mass marketing of a burgeoning democratic optimism, at home and abroad. During those first decades of the twentieth century, his satiric comedy adventures shadow-boxed with the illusions of class and custom. His characters managed to combine the American Easterner’s experience and pretension and the Westerner’s promise and expansion. As the masculine personification of the Old World aristocrat and the New World self-made man—tied to tradition yet emancipated from history—he constructed a uniquely American aristocrat striding into a new age and sensibility. This is the most complete account yet written of the film career of Douglas Fairbanks, one of the first great stars of the silent American cinema and one of the original United Artists (comprising Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith). John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh’s text is especially rich in its coverage of the early years of the star’s career from 1915 to 1920 and covers in detail several films previously considered lost.

Making Life Worth While

Author : Douglas Fairbanks
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Life Worth While written by Douglas Fairbanks and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1918 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Laugh and Live, my sole purpose was to emphasize our first duty toward ourselves, which consists of doing our level best at everything we undertake, and making the best of every situation that arises to confront us. All through my early life I read inspirational books and liked them best of all. They seemed to beckon me on. I could feel myself being pulled along by an unseen hand. Let there be no mistake about Making Life Worth While. It has no particular plan or sequence whereby to back up its title. Nearly everything has to do with such a subject and that is what the book contains-everything in general-and nothing in particular-just such things as came to mind that seemed worth while. As a follow up to Laugh and Live here's hoping that it will fill the bill.

A Hell of a War

Author : Douglas Fairbanks
Publisher : John Curley & Associates
ISBN 13 : 9780792718420
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Hell of a War written by Douglas Fairbanks and published by John Curley & Associates. This book was released on 1993 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Douglas Fairbanks

Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 : 9780241894439
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book Douglas Fairbanks written by Richard Schickel and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1976 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The True Life Story of Douglas Fairbanks

Author : Douglas Fairbanks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book The True Life Story of Douglas Fairbanks written by Douglas Fairbanks and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Silent Stars

Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819564511
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Silent Stars written by Jeanine Basinger and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent film historian illuminates the stars of silent film.

Letters from Hollywood

Author : Rocky Lang
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356667
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Hollywood written by Rocky Lang and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare correspondence from Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Jane Fonda, and other Hollywood luminaries from the silent film era to the 1970s. Letters from Hollywood reproduces in full color scores of entertaining and insightful pieces of correspondence from some of the most notable and talented film industry names of all time—from the silent era to the golden age, and up through the pre-email days of the 1970s. Culled from libraries, archives, and personal collections, the 135 letters, memos, and telegrams are organized chronologically and are annotated by the authors to provide backstories and further context. While each piece reveals a specific moment in time, taken together, the letters convey a bigger picture of Hollywood history. Contributors include celebrities like Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, Cary Grant, Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Hanks, and Jane Fonda. This is the gift book of the season for fans of classic Hollywood. With a foreword by Peter Bogdanovitch. “This is, quite simply, one of the finest books I’ve ever read about Hollywood.” —Leonard Maltin

Scientific Self-Defence

Author : W. E. Fairbairn
Publisher : Echo Point+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1648371191
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Scientific Self-Defence written by W. E. Fairbairn and published by Echo Point+ORM. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic close-quarters combat manual that offers practical fighting skills and historical insight into the evolution of this self-defense technique. Scientific Self-Defence is William E. Fairbairn’s seminal manual on his complete, close-quarters combat system of the same name. Covering both armed and unarmed moves as well as a variety of restraint techniques, students will find a wide range of easily learnable skills that will be useful everywhere from home to the streets to the battlefield. The material is clearly presented and can be useful to everyone from the light weight beginner to a powerful martial artist. The knowledge you gain just might save your life! Fairbairn influenced the world of hand-to-hand combat as a member of the Shanghai Municipal Police in the 1930s and a trainer of elite-unit soldiers during World War II. He is a modern legend in the history of fighting and self-defense skills and is widely regarded as one of the fathers of modern hand-to-hand combat. Fully illustrated with over 200 demonstrative photographs

Peter Weir

Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617038989
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Peter Weir written by John C. Tibbetts and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject. He talks about “the precious desperation of the art, the madness, the willingness to experiment” in all his films; the adaptation process from novel to film, when he tells a scriptwriter, “I’m going to eat your script; it’s going to be part of my blood!”; and his self-assessment as “merely a jester, with cap and bells, going from court to court.” He is encouraged, even provoked to tell his own story, from his childhood in a Sydney suburb in the 1950s, to his apprenticeship in the Australian television industry in the 1960s, his preparations to shoot his first features in the early 1970s, his international celebrity in Australia and Hollywood. An extensive new interview details his current plans for a new film. Interviews discuss Weir’s diverse and impressive range of work—his earlier films Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Gallipoli, and The Year of Living Dangerously, as well as Academy Award–nominated Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander. This book confirms that the trajectory of Weir’s life and work parallels and embodies Australia’s own quest to define and express a historical and cultural identity.