{"product_id":"douglas-fairbanks","title":"Douglas Fairbanks","description":"Few people have influenced Hollywood history than\nDouglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks family\nhistorian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was a\nforce of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds from the Broadway\nstage to silent movies when feature-length film was just a few years old.\nHis happy, healthy characters and acrobatic acting style brought a new\nenergy to the medium. But it was through his extraordinary success as a\nproducer that Fairbanks achieved the goal of all creative people: to run\nhis own show. This he did by co-founding United Artists in 1919 with his\nsoon-to-be wife Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith. As\na producer, he showed visionary taste, collaborating with his directors\nand designers to enact gallant tales in spectacular settings. Whether he\nplayed a young man on the go or a swashbuckling hero in a fairy-tale\nland, Fairbanks—one of the thirty-six founders of the Academy of Motion\nPicture Arts and Sciences—put America’s hopes and dreams on film. This\nupdated version of the original 1953 biography has been expanded by\nthe Fairbanks family with archival materials as well as never-before-seen\nphotographs from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,\nMargaret Herrick Library.","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54252515033432,"sku":"9781493039920","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781493039920.jpg?v=1760218241","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/douglas-fairbanks","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}