Word: doug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jubilant, dashing Doug King was the life and death of a Hallowe'en party on an old Southern manor. He hid in the dark for fun and was murdered. Various of the 13 glamorous guests had ample motive for the crime. King had injured practically all of them, with his piratical lust for women and money. Authoress Hart, who wrote The Bellamy Trial, famed smash hit, has inlaid her mystery with a filigree of wit and romance, confined the action to one night, eliminated detectives. The result is incredibly novel, exciting...
...that Fairbanks must superintend his boiling grease-vats. Six months later Fairbanks returned to the stage, was divorced in 1918, married Mary Pickford in 1920. Once, locked out of his room in the Plaza Hotel, Manhattan, he climbed up the face of the building. In Hollywood he is called "Doug," his wife Miss Pickford. Social leaders, they dance only with each other. She looks after the family accounts. After making his first picture, The Lamb, for the old Triangle company for $2,000 a week, he developed a type of film peculiar to himself, spent $700,000 on The Three...
Douglas Fairbanks, as the thief who becomes a prince, is at his best. In "Robin Hood" one was conscious that Doug was acting a good part; in this Arabian Nights fantasy one is not aware that he is acting at all. And in the same way, one is not conscious of the impossibility of the multitude of mysterious and magic occurrences which are continually taking place. Every trick known to photographic art is used, and so skillfully used that the most extraordinary events seem perfectly natural. Elton Thomas, the author, has chosen a number of incidents from the Arabian Nights...
...Mary and Douglas Pickford," as Fairbanks described himself and play- mate, are arranging for the showing of their new pictures, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Mary and The Thief of Bagdad by Doug. Soon they depart for England to add a little excitement to the life of Edward of Wales...
Hollywood rattles along about the difficulties of breaking into the movies. Venturing westward to this cinema Constantinople comes a young and beautiful maiden (shot of a young and beautiful maiden wandering past "Pickfair," the Pickford-Fairbanks residence, with Doug and Mary chatting on the porch). She drifts into Hollywood hotels (shot of Charlie Chaplin buying a cigar). She tries to get a job (shots of William S. Hart, Pola Negri, Thomas Meighan, Bryant Washburn...