#douglas fairbank

[diioonysus]

history | first ten on hollywood walk of fame

grauman, dubbed as��“hollywood’s master showman,” established the tradition of having hollywood stars place their prints in cement in front of the theater to create an instant tourist attraction. there is a legend (i don’t know if it’s true) that during the construction of the theater, actress norma talmadge accidentally stepped into wet cement and inspired the tradition.

#history #old hollywood #hollywood walk of fame #chinese theater #mary pickford #douglas fairbank #norma talmadge #norma shearer #harold lloyd #william s. hart #tom mix #colleen moore #gloria swanson #constance talmadge #charlie chaplin #ph #photography #hollywood

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

Pickfair was a sprawling estate in Beverly Hills, California purchased and further renovated in 1919 by silent film actress Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks, the "Queen and King of Hollywood." The 25-room mansion was named by combining parts of their last names ("Pick" + "fair").

Pickfair was considered one of the most celebrated private homes of America, and became a famous symbol of Hollywood glamour and excess in the 1920s/30s. It hosted iconic parties with famous guests like Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, F. Scott Fitzgerald and presidents Coolidge and Roosevelt. Life magazine described it as “a gathering place only slightly less important than the White House… and much more fun.”

After divorcing Douglas Fairbanks in 1936, Mary Pickford married actor Charles "Buddy" Rogers and continued living in Pickfair until her death, in 1979. A new owner, actress Pia Zadora, eventually demolished the mansion in 1990, despite some outcry. Zadora later claimed the place was haunted: “You can deal with termites, and you can deal with plumbing issues, but you can’t deal with the supernatural.”

A new mansion stands on the site bearing no resemblance to the original Pickfair.

#pickfair #mary pickford #douglas fairbanks #history #vintage #mansion #architecture #lost architecture #classic hollywood #old hollywood #silent era #1920s #1930s

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (The Thief of Baghdad, Robin Hood)—no propaganda submitted

Sessue Hayakawa (His Birthright, Bridge on the River Kwai)—One of Hollywood's earliest sex symbols, notable for being a Asian man presented as an object of desire

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

[propaganda photos submitted under the cut]

Submitted: One of the First Hollywood Hearthrobs Was A Smoldering Japanese Actor. What Happened?

#sessue hayakawa #douglas fairbanks #robin hood #fuck that old man #classic hollywood #old hollywood #hotvintagepoll #round 1

[tavoit]

A white shirt, gray flannels and a cigarette--all Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. need to look effortlessly cool.....

#Douglas Fairbanks Jr. #white shirt #gray flannels

[vintage-every-day]

Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin in 1918.

#vintage #old hollywood #golden era #douglas fairbanks #charlie chaplin #mary pickford

[citizenscreen]

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were married on Sunday evening, March 28, 1920 #OnThisDay

#douglas fairbanks #mary pickford #old hollywood

[weirdlookindog]

Ghost Story (1981) - VHS Cover

#ghost story #craig wasson #alice krige #fred astaire #melvyn douglas #douglas fairbanks jr. #john houseman #patricia neal #1981 #1980s movies #john irvin #vhs #vhs cover

[mylovelydeadfriends]

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 1932

#douglas fairbanks jr #1932 #30s #old hollywood #movies

[pazzesco]

Too loud, too bright, too sexual… Mexico's Lupe Vélez was utterly broken by scandal-hungry 1940s Hollywood – even after her death.

The wild saga of Lupe Vélez, Hollywood's first tabloid casualty

On the evening of December 13, 1944, 36-year-old Mexican film star Lupe Vélez was found by her personal secretary, laid out on her bed in California like a painted doll and wearing blue satin pyjamas, surrounded by fresh flowers and burning candles.

She was dead, having intentionally overdosed on 75 Seconal pills (a barbiturate) with a glass of brandy after dinner. She was also pregnant, no doubt suffered from bipolar, and left behind a life papered in tabloid headlines and scandal.

Yet, what should have been an international tragedy – a wake-up call to the media around the fragility of celebrity and mental health – was soon turned into farce by underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger. He published Hollywood Babylon, a widely-sold compendium of Tinseltown’s juiciest rumours.

“Her ethnicity was played up for her films, and, for the sake of her 'public image' she fell into that characterization, both on and off screen,” writes Vélez biographer Michelle Vogel in her book Lupe Vélez: The Life and Career of Hollywood’s Mexican Spitfire.

Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel and Lupe Velez, in the 1930s

Lupe Velez and Douglas Fairbanks in O Gaucho

Violent love: Lupe Vélez and Gary Cooper in 1929

Vélez exercarbated the intrigue in her interviews, chillingly telling one fanzine, “I think I will kill my Gary, because he does not get angry when Lupe is angry with him.” Eventually Cooper left her, and was ordered by Paramount Studios to take a holiday on account of his nervous exhaustion and 45-pound weight loss considered a result of his relationship. The day he boarded the train to get away, Vélez ran onto the platform, smashed the glass of his window pane and tried to shoot him with her pistol while reportedly shouting, “Gary! You son of a bitch!”

A brief marriage to Tarzan star Johnny Weissmuller followed suit in October 1933, and the bruises and love bites they both sported as a result of their “passionate lovemaking” were regularly noted in the press (and commented on by makeup artists on the Tarzan films, whose task it was to cover Weissmuller’s up).

“Another misconception is that she was a loose woman…” said Vogel. (In Hollywood Babylon Kenneth Anger described her “going through a small army of lover – cowboys, stuntmen, and American gigolos.”) “Sure, she loved to party and have a good time, but she was fiercely loyal to her men. She was committed to Gary Cooper and Johnny Weissmuller for almost 10 years of her life. She helped everyone and supported her extended family in Mexico for much of her life,” continued Vogel. Indeed, it was reported that Vélez kept her personal phone number listed so that fans could call her up and chat when they were in distress. She also had a big heart, keeping a large menagerie of rescue animals which included horses, monkeys, canaries, turtles and dogs.

“Although the public thinks that I'm a very wild girl. Actually I'm not. I'm just me, Lupe Vélez, simple and natural Lupe. If I'm happy, I dance and sing and acted like a child. And if something irritates me, I cry and sob. Someone called that 'personality'. The Personality is nothing more than behave with others as you really are. If I tried to look and act like Norma Talmadge, the great dramatic actress, or like Corinne Griffith, the aristocrat of the movies, or like Mary Pickford, the sweet and gentle Mary, I would be nothing more than an imitation. I just want to be myself: Lupe Vélez .”

#photography #lupe vélez #gary cooper #Johnny Weissmuller #old hollywood #douglas fairbanks #vintage photography #cliff clavin

[davidhudson]

Mary Pickford, April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979.

With Douglas Fairbanks and Ernst Lubitsch on the set of Rosita (1923).

#mary pickford #douglas fairbanks #ernst lubitsch #cinema #film #movies

[vintagegeekculture]

“The Thief of Bagdad” (1924)

#silent film #douglas fairbanks #1920s

[gatabella]

Marlene Dietrich, 1938

#marlene dietrich #douglas fairbanks jr #fur #smoking

[chaplinfortheages]

Charlie Chaplin 1953 and 1919.

Charlie visits set of Douglas Fairbanks film "His Majesty, The American" 1919.

#charlie chaplin #1953 #1919 #douglas fairbanks

[vintage-every-day]

1925: Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, and Jackie Coogan in his costume of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑲𝒊𝒅.

#vintage #silent era #old hollywood #douglas fairbanks #rudolph valentino #jackie coogan

[citizenscreen]

Popular trio: Douglas Fairbanks, Jackie Coogan, and Rudolph Valentino in 1925

#douglas fairbanks #jackie coogan #rudolph valentino #old hollywood #1920s

[lizardsfromspace]

Callout post: Don Diego de la Vega. This 1%er bitch??? He knows all about the oppression in California wrought by the wicked Governor, but just sits in his villa all day not doing anything. :/ Can't wait 'til Zorro carves up his stupid little face </3

#shout out to this random post i made after watching #douglas fairbanks #in the mark of zorro #then left in drafts for three weeks