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Douglas Fairbanks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1511 words) |
 | Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Black Pirate (1926). |
| Fairbanks leased the Beverly Hills mansion Grayhall and was rumoured to have used it during his courtship of Pickford. |
| Douglas Fairbanks' hand and foot prints are immortalized in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7020 Hollywood Boulevard. |
| Sunrise (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (547 words) |
| This film is one of the first with a soundtrack of music and sound effects recorded in then-new Fox Movietone sound-on-film system. |
| The movie was the only film to win the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production (in 1929, for films made in 1927 or 1928) when it was a variation of Best Picture. |
| The film has also been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. |
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