Douglas Fairbanks : The Fourth Musketeer Hardback

Few 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, Fairbanks-one of the thirty-six founders of the Academy of MotionPicture Arts and Sciences-put America's hopes and dreams on film.

Thisupdated version of the original 1953 biography has been expanded bythe Fairbanks family with archival materials as well as never-before-seenphotographs from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,Margaret Herrick Library.