November 6, 2008

Douglas Fairbanks.

Flicker Alley's Fairbanks There's a Douglas Fairbanks revival going on, notes Susan King, and she counts the ways in the Los Angeles Times:

  • Tonight in Beverly Hills the academy will screen a new print from New York's Museum of Modern Art of his 1927 silent film The Gaucho.

  • A new book, Douglas Fairbanks, by Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta, which looks at the life and times of one of cinema's first action heroes, is just out from the University of California press.

  • On Dec 2, Flicker Alley will release a new DVD set featuring 11 Fairbanks films, including the restored 1917 A Modern Musketeer which had long been considered lost.

Meantime, Reuters reports that the personal autograph book kept by Mary Pickford, Fairbanks's second wife, will be auctioned in a couple of weeks. Among the more than 120 names collected: HG Wells, Thomas Edison and Benito Mussolini.



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Posted by dwhudson at November 6, 2008 7:09 AM