We continue our month-long series on the life of Douglas Fairbanks with an excerpt from the 2005 documentary film, “The Great Swashbuckler,” produced by Delta Entertainment with the assistance of the Douglas Fairbanks Museum.
Pt. 3 begins with Doug’s swift rise as the movies #1 box office star in the 1910s, examines some of his oddball [...]
Archive for March 9th, 2009
Douglas Fairbanks Documentary Pt. 3 – Love and War
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