DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS SR. - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 49922
Price: $400.00
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, SR.
Signed b/w photo of a nattily-dressed Fairbanks from the knees up in a
suit-and-tie and pencil-thin mustache
Photograph signed "Douglas Fairbanks". B/w, 7¾x9¾ overall, 7½x9½
image, one surface, printed on cardstock. 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. Lightly toned, cracked, creased
and bowed. Signature has low contrast in places, but is legible. Errors in
negative were reproduced in photo. Pinhead-sized burn mark on Fairbanks'
forehead. Paperclip impressions in upper left corner. Light impressions near top
edge. Otherwise in fine condition.
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