Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century

Contents

contents xi A Personal Greeting —Vera Fairbanks (Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) xv Foreword: A Fairbanks Memoir —Kevin Brownlow 3 Introduction: The Choreography of Hope 15 part i. odyssey of a spring lamb 17 Chapter 1. “Windows Are the Only Doors”: The First Films (The Lamb, 1915, and Double Trouble, 1915) 30 Chapter 2. “The Leap to Greatness”: The Years at Triangle, Artcraft, United Artists, 1916–1919 92 Chapter 3. “Arizona Jim”: The Fairbanks Westerns, 1916–1920 142 Chapter 4. “Her Picture in the Papers”: Mary Pickford’s “Growing Girl” 170 Chapter 5. “On an Odd Note”: Say, Young Fellow! (1918), The Nut (1920), and When the Clouds Roll By (1919) Contents viii 183 part ii. “the imperial reach” 185 Chapter 6. Prologue 188 Chapter 7. “The Mark of Greatness”: The Adventures of Señor Zorro 200 Chapter 8. “A Dance of Free Men in the Forest”: Robin Hood 209 Chapter 9. “Architecture in Motion”: The Thief of Bagdad 219 Chapter 10. “A Painted Ship on a Painted Ocean”: The Black Pirate 239 Chapter 11. “Dumas, Douglas, and Delirium”: Fairbanks and the Musketeers 259 Chapter 12. “The Fall from Grace”: The Gaucho 271 part iii. doug and mary find their voices 273 Chapter 13. Coquette: Goodbye to the Glad Girl 283 Chapter 14. A Shrewd Adaptation: The Taming of the Shrew 297 part iv. artists and husbands 299 Chapter 15. Prologue 303 Chapter 16. Reaching for the Moon Contents ix 307 Chapter 17. Around the World in Eighty Minutes 313 Chapter 18. Mr. Robinson Crusoe 317 Chapter 19. The Private Life of Don Juan 331 Epilogue 333 Afterword: The Makings of a Man 1880–1927 —Brian Faucette 339 Appendix A. “His Own Man”: Interviews with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. 357 Appendix B. On the Set of The Iron Mask (1929) —Maurice Leloir 399 Notes 433 Index Douglas and Vera Fairbanks, 1996 (courtesy Vera Fairbanks). ...