Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, Mary Pickford, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, United Artists, silent cinema, tagged AMPAS, Buddy Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Oscar statues, Oscars on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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From the Los Angeles Times
Jury bars auction of Mary Pickford’s Oscar
If heirs want to sell the actress’ 1930 award, they must give the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the first chance to buy it, for $10, jurors decide.
By Bob Pool
December 16, 2008
And the Oscar for best Hollywood courtroom drama goes to . . [...]
Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, Mary Pickford, Silent Film, Silent Film Festivals, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, silent cinema, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Museum of Modern Art, New York film festivals, Silent Film Festivals on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art celebrates the classic films of Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) with a 20-film exhibition that highlights the all-American actor’s adventurous, swashbuckling career. Bringing together such Hollywood favorites as The Gaucho (1928), The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), and Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932), the 20-film exhibition will [...]
Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, Mary Pickford, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, United Artists, silent cinema, tagged Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Hollywood History, Jeffrey Vance, Mary Pickford, Swashbuckler films on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First he swashed, then he buckled
A new book recalls Douglas Fairbanks’s glory days before the silent-film star fell victim to cinema’s sound revolution
Robert Fulford, National Post Published: Tuesday, December 16, 2008
He never saw an open window he didn’t want to jump through. He preferred leaping over tables to sitting at them. He never walked down a [...]
Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, Silent Film, Silent Film Festivals, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, United Artists, silent cinema, tagged Academy Theater, AMPAS, Douglas Fairbanks, New York film festivals, Raoul Walsh, Thief of Bagdad on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A fully restored print of the 1924 silent-film version of The Thief of Bagdad, starring Douglas Fairbanks, will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Fairbanks celebration in a special “Monday Nights with Oscar” presentation on Monday, December 15, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York [...]
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Mary Pickford, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, United Artists, silent cinema, tagged Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills real estate listings, Buddy Rogers, Hollywood History, Hollywood mansions, hot real estate, Jerry Buss, Pia Zadora, Pickfair on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(BEVERLY HILLS, CA) — More often than not, houses do not have famous owners in their chains of title, but a substantial number of Beverly Hills homes are the exceptions. The property that comes quickest to mind is Pickfair, the legendary, Beverly Hills home of actors Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Mary Pickford.
They moved in after [...]
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, United Artists, silent cinema, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, DVD Box Sets, New DVD Releases, Silent Film DVD on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The eleven films on Flicker Alley’s five-disc set Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer are more than just a terrific collection of the films from one of the preeminent stars of silent cinema. Spanning the year 1916-1921, the films show Douglas Fairbanks developing from mere mortal film star, an actor with both comic grace and athletic [...]
