News about {Douglas Fairbanks}

Weekend what's what: Pirates, surfers, explorers and pride | Max About Town

06/24/11 Some weekend recommendations. Firstly, tonight Take-Up Productions ends its series of pirate films with what must be the ur-text of cinematic swashbucklers, 1926's " The Black Pirate ." The film stars Douglas Fairbanks, who also co-scripted, and not only have pirate films borrowed this one's daring stuntwork (Captain Jack Sparrow, in particular, owes a debt to Fairbanks), but later filmmakers ...

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Rent Check: Apartment Share in Leland Bryant's Historic Trianon

12/28/10 If we were a fresh-faced kid who'd just moved to town in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, we'd want to live at Le Trianon. Commissioned in 1928 by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks and designed by the illustrious and...

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Did you know?

08/30/10 1. A little more than three weeks after this performing couple appeared in Uniontown in 1926, they were married. They would forever be linked as one of America's greatest entertainment teams. Who were they? A) Ozzie and Harriet Nelson B) George Burns and Gracie Allen C) Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald D) Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz E) Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. 2. Fayette County ...

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John Farr: The Top Father/Son Movie Stars, Bar None.

04/11/10 With advance apologies to Lloyd and Jeff Bridges, Henry and Peter Fonda, Martin and Charlie Sheen, both Lon Chaney and Douglas Fairbanks (Senior and Junior),...

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This day in history

12/12/09 In 1939, swashbuckling actor Douglas Fairbanks died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 56.

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Robert Pattinson's Dream? To Make His Own Movies

11/16/09 BEVERLY HILLS, California When Edward Cullen was 18 years old in 1919, Hollywood superstars Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary ...

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Events around Hernando County

10/04/09 Today/NewAcademia Hernando presents "Nietzsche, Godfather of Nazism?": 10 a.m., Nativity Lutheran Church, 6363 Commercial Way, Weeki Wachee. The speaker is Douglas Fairbanks. The lecture is part of the "Myths and Realities" fall lecture series. $7. (352) 597-0158.

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A Santa Monica beach house once owned by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. is listed at $7.9 million

08/06/09 The two-story Mediterranean home has three bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, an expansive second-floor terrace and ocean views. The former beach house of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. has come on the market in Santa Monica at $7.9 million.

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The Sounds of Silents

08/05/09 CERTAINLY, we are always looking for those experiences we can tell our grandchildren about. There is one this very Friday that costs only $5. Dennis James appears at the California Theatre's Wurlitzer organ in downtown San Jose, accompanying the first great pirate movie: Douglas Fairbanks in 1926's The Black Pirate .

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