Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles

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DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR.

Born: December 9, 1909 in New York City, New York
Died: May 7, 2000 in New York City, New York

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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (1909-2000), the son of the dashing actor of the 1920s and Anna Beth Sully, the daughter of an industrialist, was raised by his mother after his parents' divorce in 1918. At the age of 13, he starred in Lasky's Stephen Steps Out, an unsuccessful attempt to exploit the Fairbanks name. Although the younger Fairbanks, a movie producer as well as an actor, appeared in some 75 films, his father took little interest in his son's career, and the two did not become close friends until the early 1930s. His feature films included Stella Dallas (1926), Little Caesar (1930), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939) and Sinbad the Sailor (1947), and Fairbanks also appeared in a number of made-for-TV movies and hosted the anthology series, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents (1952-1955).

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1940 Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 9: Sports in Hollywood (in person), 2008 Gable and Crawford (Other), 1950 The Costume Designer (Other), 1932 L'athlète incomplet (Performer), 2008 Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (Other), 1930 The Little Accident (Performer), 1964 Hollywood and the Stars (Other), 1970 The Brian Connell Interview (in person), 1938 Personality Parade (Other), 1976 America at the Movies (Other), 1989 B.L. Stryker (Performer), 1980 The Hostage Tower (Performer), 1967 Red and Blue (Performer), 1964 Dr. Kildare (Performer), 1953-1956 Rheingold Theatre (Performer), 1956 Faccia da mascalzone (Performer), 1954 Thought to Kill (Performer), 1954 The Red Dress (Performer), 1953 The Genie (Performer), 1953 The Triangle (Performer), 1951 Sure As Fate (Performer), 1951 Mister Drake's Duck (Performer), 1948 That Lady in Ermine (Performer), 1940 Angels Over Broadway (Performer), 1940 Safari (Performer), 1940 Green Hell (Performer), 1938 Having Wonderful Time (Performer), 1936 The Amateur Gentleman (Performer), 1933 Captured! (Performer), 1933 The Life of Jimmy Dolan (Performer), 1932 Scarlet Dawn (Performer), 1930 One Night at Susie's (Performer), 1930 Outward Bound (Performer), 1929 The Show of Shows (Performer), 1929 The Forward Pass (Performer), 1929 The Jazz Age (Performer), 1928 Modern Mothers (Performer), 1927 A Texas Steer (Performer), 1927 Is Zat So (Performer), 1927 Women Love Diamonds (Performer), 1925 Stella Dallas (Performer), 1925 Wild Horse Mesa (Performer), 1956 The Silken Affair (Producer), 1954 Thought to Kill (Producer), 1954 The Red Dress (Producer), 1953 The Genie (Producer), 1953 Terry and the Pirates (Producer), 1951 Mister Drake's Duck (Producer), 1940 Angels Over Broadway (Producer), 1936 The Amateur Gentleman (Producer), 1936 The Amateur Gentleman (Writer), 1932 Scarlet Dawn (Writer), 1980 Great Railway Journeys of the World (in person), 1980 The 52nd Annual Academy Awards (in person), 1976 The Elstree Story (in person), 1968-1975 The Hollywood Squares (in person), 1974-1975 Stars on Sunday (in person), 1973 The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (in person), 1970 The Dick Cavett Show (in person), 1969 Della (in person), 1958-1962 I've Got a Secret (in person), 1959 The Big Party (in person), 1953-1957 Rheingold Theatre (in person), 1951-1956 What's My Line (in person), 1951 The Kate Smith Evening Hour (in person), 1931 Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 6 (in person), 1930 Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 13 (in person), 1962 The DuPont Show of the Week (Performer), 1962 Route 66 (Performer), 1954 Three's Company (Performer), 1954 The Last Moment (Performer), 1954 Destination Milan (Performer), 1950 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Performer), 1950 The Great Manhunt (Performer), 1947 The Exile (Performer), 1947 Sinbad, the Sailor (Performer), 1941 The Corsican Brothers (Performer), 1938 The Young in Heart (Performer), 1938 The Rage of Paris (Performer), 1938 Joy of Living (Performer), 1934 Success at Any Price (Performer), 1932 Love Is a Racket (Performer), 1932 Union Depot (Performer), 1931 The Stolen Jools (Performer), 1931 Little Caesar (Performer), 1930 Loose Ankles (Performer), 1930 Party Girl (Performer), 1928 A Woman of Affairs (Performer), 1928 The Barker (Performer), 1928 The Power of the Press (Performer), 1928 Dead Man's Curve (Performer), 1926 Padlocked (Performer), 1925 The Air Mail (Performer), 1923 Stephen Steps Out (Performer), 1921 The Three Musketeers (Performer), 1916 American Aristocracy (Performer), 1954 Three's Company (Producer), 1954 The Last Moment (Producer), 1947 The Exile (Producer), 1947 The Exile (Writer), 1996 The American Experience (in person), 1990 American Masters (in person), 1989 This Is Your Life (in person), 1989 The Dame Edna Experience (in person), 1981 Tomorrow Coast to Coast (in person), 1981 Starring Katharine Hepburn (in person), 1980 The British Greats (in person), 1980 Hollywood (in person), 1979 Hollywood Greats (in person), 1970 NBC Experiment in Television (in person), 1969 Allen Ludden's Gallery (in person), 1968 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (in person), 1968 The Jonathan Winters Show (in person), 1965 Shindig! (in person), 1965 Today (in person), 1964 Get the Message (in person), 1956 The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (in person), 1956 The Bob Hope Show (in person), 1950 Your Show of Shows (in person), 1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (in person), 1932 Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 (in person), 1930 Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 (in person), 1930 Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 11 (in person), 1990 Warner Bros. Celebration of Tradition, June 2, 1990 (in person), 2001 The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (Other), 2000 Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (Other), 1953 Screen Snapshots: Spike Jones in Hollywood (Other), 1950 Night and the City (Casting Director), 1978 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (in person), 2003 Bob Hope at 100 (Other), 2004 American Masters (Other), 1993 Laugh-In Past Christmas Present (Other), 2005 Little Caesar: End of Rico, b_eginning of the Antihero (Other), 2004 Checking Out: Grand Hotel (Other), 2002 Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (Other), Rheingold Theatre (Producer), 1978 Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee (in person), 1930 An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (in person), 1931 How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots' (in person), 2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (Other), 2004 On Location with 'Gunga Din' (Other), 1963 Hollywood Without Make-Up (Other), 1955 Hollywood Mothers and Fathers (Other), 1983 Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (Other), 1986 Strong Medicine (Performer), 1949 The Fighting O'Flynn (Performer), 1937 The Prisoner of Zenda (Performer), 1937 When Thief Meets Thief (Performer), 1936 Accused (Performer), 1935 Man of the Moment (Performer), 1933 The Narrow Corner (Performer), 1933 Parachute Jumper (Performer), 1931 I Like Your Nerve (Performer), 1929 Fast Life (Performer), 1928 The Toilers (Performer), 1927 Man Bait (Performer), 1926 Broken Hearts of Hollywood (Performer), 1926 The American Venus (Performer), 1955 Police Dog (Producer), 1949 The Fighting O'Flynn (Producer), 1937 When Thief Meets Thief (Producer), 1936 Accused (Producer), 1949 The Fighting O'Flynn (Writer), 1951 Another Man's Poison (Other), 1951 Another Man's Poison (in person), 1997 Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (in person), 1991 Stars and Stripes: Hollywood and World War II (in person), 1990 Night of 100 Stars III (in person), 1988 Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (in person), 1984 George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (in person), 1982 The Pirates of Penzance (in person), 1980 From Raquel with Love (in person), 1971 The Pearl Bailey Show (in person), 1951-1969 The Ed Sullivan Show (in person), 1968 The Hollywood Palace (in person), 1968 The Pat Boone Show (in person), 1968 You Don't Say (in person), 1967 The Funniest Man in the World (in person), 1965 The Eamonn Andrews Show (in person), 1965 Cinépanorama (in person), 1961-1964 Password All-Stars (in person), 1938 Hollywood Goes to Town (in person), 1929 Hollywood Snapshots #11 (in person), 1950 The Faye Emerson Show (in person), 1924 Screen Snapshots, Series 4, No. 11 (in person), 1946 Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 10: Famous Fathers and Sons (Other), 2008 Zeitenblicke - Jetzt ist Hallstatt Zeit (Other), 1998 The Third Reich, in Color (Other), 1963 The Match Game (in person), 1981 Ghost Story (Performer), 1979-1981 The Love Boat (Performer), 1978 Kingdom of Gifts (Performer), 1972 The Crooked Hearts (Performer), 1966 ABC Stage 67 (Performer), 1966 The Bruce Forsyth Show (Performer), 1964 The Red Skelton Hour (Performer), 1962-1963 The United States Steel Hour (Performer), 1939 Rulers of the Sea (Performer), 1939 The Sun Never Sets (Performer), 1939 Gunga Din (Performer), 1935 Mimi (Performer), 1934 The Rise of Catherine the Great (Performer), 1933 Morning Glory (Performer), 1932 It's Tough to Be Famous (Performer), 1931 Chances (Performer), 1931 L'aviateur (Performer), 1930 The Way of All Men (Performer), 1930 The Dawn Patrol (Performer), 1929 The Careless Age (Performer), 1929 Our Modern Maidens (Performer), 1958 Chase a Crooked Shadow (Producer), 1990 Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (in person), 1988 Going Hollywood: The War Years (in person), 1987 Hollywood Uncensored (in person), 1983 Great Performances (in person), 1982 Night of 100 Stars (in person), 1981 Hour Magazine (in person), 1981 Bob Hope's 30th Anniversary Special (in person), 1979 Circus of the Stars #4 (in person), 1979 All-Star Salute to Pearl Bailey (in person), 1973 Target Tirpitz (in person), 1969 The David Frost Show (in person), 1959-1960 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (in person), 1958 Chelsea at Nine (in person), 1958 Chase a Crooked Shadow (in person), 1957 The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (in person)