DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS SR. - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 286170
Price: $700.00
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, SR.
Inscribed sepia photo of a mustached Fairbanks
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To John B. McKillen/from/Douglas Fairbanks". B/w 8x10. In
1902, Fairbanks (1883-1939, born Douglas Elton Ulman in Denver, Colorado) made his
Broadway debut in Her Lord and Master. He married Anna Beth Sully, the daughter of an
industrialist, in 1907, and left acting to work for her father's soap company. When his
father-in-law lost his fortune in 1908, Fairbanks Sr. returned to the theatre. His son and
namesake, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., was born the following year, and in 1915, the family
moved to Hollywood. During a World War I Liberty Bond tour with Charlie Chaplin and
Mary Pickford, Fairbanks fell in love with "America's Sweetheart." Having divorced Anna
in 1918, Fairbanks Sr. married Pickford in 1920, and the couple settled in their Hollywood
mansion, Pickfair. They reached the peaks of their careers in the 1920s. Pickford and
Fairbanks separated in 1933, the year Pickford retired from acting. After their divorce in
1936, Fairbanks Sr. also retired.Toned and lightly creased. Corners creased. Signature in
poor contrast but legible. Mounting residue on verso. Otherwise fine condition.
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