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Douglas Fairbanks on Screen Writers (Vanity Fair, 1918)
Yet another article from the dusty, moldy magazines of yore that illustrate how the silent film actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., (1883 – 1939) would, time and again, bite that hand that fed him so generously: this is one more example in which Douglas Rex points out the all-too predictable story lines of American silent movies.
| Douglas Fairbanks on Hollywood (Vanity Fair, 1918)
A very funny article written by the great matinee idol Douglas Fairbanks (1883 – 1939) concerning the predictability of silent films:
"Whether eastern or western, the villain is never without a big black cigar. On the screen a big black cigar represents villainy; on the stage it represents General Grant."Click here to read magazine articles about D.W. Griffith. *Watch Douglas Fairbanks in 'Robin Hood'*
| An Evening With Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford (The Literary Digest, 1922)
This four page article is a wonderful read for many reasons and the chief among them is that the journalist hated Los Angeles. The New York writer Karl K. Kitchen is dispatched to Beverly Hills to interview the recently divorced Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford and he seemed to have had a nice time with the two of them, so much so that the Hollywood Royals invited him to dine at their house. The whole article is written in a very chatty way and there is one small, but distinct, slanderous aside referring to Jewish power in the young film industry. Los Angeles at that time is largely remembered as a city that smelled of Orange blossoms and was often likened to a garden, however this writer will have none of it: the town is filled with frauds and lousy restaurants; in short, the place is just plain dull and there is no hope for it's future. Click here to read about feminine conversations overheard in the best New York nightclubs of 1937.
| Mary Pickford Considers Her Rolls (Vanity Fair, 1920)
This article was written by the silent film star herself for a fashionable American magazine concerning "a few the difficulties in the way of dress, make-up, manners and technique" an actress might consider before portraying a child on stage or screen.
| Mary Pickford: An Appreciation (Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)
We don't know if California lawyers had the "Restraining Order" as one of the items in their arsenal back in 1916; but if they had, Mary Pickford might have chosen to deploy just such a measure in order to defend herself from this obsessed fan who wrote the following essay.
| An Interview With Mary Pickford (Current Opinion, 1918)
A profile of the the great silent film actress, Mary Pickford .
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