nuranar , if your OTR-sleuthing skills are still sharp, maybe you can help me out here! (We might call it the tenth item on my Christmas wishlist. *g* ) Simply put (and as part of the logical progression), I'm now looking for DouglasFairbanks Jr. radio programs. Apparently he did a good bit of radio work, and one page I read particularly mentioned him doing adaptations of his movies....
So, I first saw DouglasFairbanks sliding down a ship’s sail he’d skewered with his short sword in THE BLACK PIRATE when I was a teenager, and the clip was in Kevin Brownlow and David Gill’s monumental series Hollywood. Accompanied by information on how the filmmakers cheated so that Doug could do the impossible. It’s [...]
As preparations continue for the impending sale of MGM , it’s an ironic state of affairs that what actually interests purchasers are not films from Louis B. Mayer’s iconic studio, the best known of which have all been sold off, but from the company’s later purchase of United Artists. Even more ironically, that was a studio originally founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, DouglasFairbanks,...
Anna May Wong acted along side some of Hollywood's heavy-hitters during the 20s and 30s (think DouglasFairbanks, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich), received great acclaim for her onscreen performances, she even has a star on the Walk of Fame and yet she remains fairly unknown today. It seems that, despite the fantastic reviews and the accolade, Hollywood was reluctant to give her any...
Before there was Superman or Batman, and way before the X-Men or Spider-Man, there was Zorro. The 1920 classic The Mark of Zorro turned Denver-born DouglasFairbanks into the first action movie star and arguably cast the mold for every masked avenger who followed. "DouglasFairbanks wa...
Created by Johnston McCulley, the character of Zorro, the swashbuckling swordsman of Spanish colonial California, first appeared in All-Story Weekly in 1919. DouglasFairbanks starred in the first film adaptation The Mark of Zorro (1920), which was such a huge hit it compelled McCulley to write over 60 Zorro stories. Zorro appeared in other films and comics, and according to Leonard Maltin...
FROM MTV.COM: When Edward Cullen was 18 years old in 1919, Hollywood superstars Charlie Chaplin, DouglasFairbanks and Mary Pickford came up with the idea for United Artists — a studio that would give actors greater control over which films they got to make and take the creative decisions away from commercial-minded studio execs. [...]
A young Austrian princess named Catherine is brought to Russia as the Great Duke Peter's unwilling bride. CAST: DouglasFairbanks, Elizabeth Bergner DIR: Paul Czinner (1934)
Since his creation in 1919 by American pulp fiction author Johnston McCulley, the masked avenger known as Zorro has lived on in everything from comic books to cartoons to video games, even a stage musical. But it is his onscreen persona that has been the most enduring, including multiple feature film incarnations performed over the years by the likes of DouglasFairbanks, Tyrone Power,...
Here be beasts and monsters! It's Son of Kong with Robert Armstrong, Murders in the Zoo with Lionel Atwill, and three fruits of a pre-Halloween Boris Karloff marathon: Behind the Mask (with the wonderful Edward Van Sloan), The Man They Could Not Hang , and The Ape . I'll also include DouglasFairbanks Jr. in Sinbad the Sailor , because I liked it inordinately I was supposed to get it...
In 1919, Johnston McCulley introduced the character of Zorro in the novella The Curse of Capistrano. Since then, the cunning Spanish fox has appeared onscreen in over 40 productions, beginning with two silent films starring DouglasFairbanks. In 1940, Tyrone Power rode into theaters with , which proved to be just as popular. Modern audiences are more familiar with Sony's (1998) and (2005),...
... photographs of renowned graduates, including singer Judy Collins, author Sidney Sheldon and actors DouglasFairbanks, Hattie McDaniel, Pam Grier, Don Cheadle and Antoinette Perry, namesake of Broadway's Tony Awards.So it's no surprise that for the past dozen years, the freshman orientation program includes a museum tour, courtesy of Nelson. "It's part of making them aware of where...
... them I know adore each other." A pair of hosts helmed the inaugural Oscar ceremony in 1929: DouglasFairbanks and William DeMille, then president and vice president of the film academy, co-hosted the show. The last time multiple hosts graced the Oscar stage was in 1987, when Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan shared hosting duties. "In the modern television era, this...
... post-Civil War resort destination for the rich. The 1916 silent movie "American Aristocracy" with DouglasFairbanks was filmed at the towering Victorian hotel, known for its yellow facade and striking ocean views. But the 135-year old hotel, in need of extensive repairs and upgrades, was closed in 2003 and razed. Now a group of sentimentally attached investors -- led by mutual fund...