{"product_id":"douglas-fairbanks-9781493039920","title":"Douglas Fairbanks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew people have influenced Hollywood history thanDouglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks familyhistorian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was aforce of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds from the Broadwaystage to silent movies when feature-length film was just a few years old.   His happy, healthy characters and acrobatic acting style brought a newenergy to the medium. But it was through his extraordinary success as aproducer that Fairbanks achieved the goal of all creative people: to runhis own show. This he did by co-founding United Artists in 1919 with hissoon-to-be wife Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith. Asa producer, he showed visionary taste, collaborating with his directorsand designers to enact gallant tales in spectacular settings. Whether heplayed a young man on the go or a swashbuckling hero in a fairy-taleland, Fairbanksone of the thirty-six founders of the Academy of MotionPicture Arts and Science","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885860368727,"sku":"9781493039920","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/douglas-fairbanks-9781493039920","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}