Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. KBE, DSC | |
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 Fairbanks in 1973, by Allan Warren | |
| Born | Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. (1909-12-09)December 9, 1909 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | May 7, 2000(2000-05-07) (aged 90) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, naval officer, film producer |
| Years active | 1916–1997 |
| Spouse(s) | Joan Crawford (m. 1929; div. 1933) Mary Lee Epling (m. 1939; died 1988) Vera Shelton (m. 1991) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Douglas Fairbanks Anna Beth Sully |
Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Service/branch |  United States Navy |
| Rank |  Captain |
| Unit | Beach Jumpers |
| Battles/wars | World War II
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Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., KBE, DSC (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000), was an American actor and producer, and a decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939) and The Corsican Brothers (1941). He was the son of actor Douglas Fairbanks and was once married to Joan Crawford.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Film career
2.1 Stephen Steps Out and Paramount
2.2 Stella Dallas and Young Woodley
2.3 Early leading-man roles
2.4 First National and Warner Bros.
2.5 Little Caesar
2.6 Britain and Criterion Films
2.7 Return to Hollywood and focus on action roles
3 World War II
4 Post-war years
4.1 Hollywood
4.2 British career
5 Later career
6 Personal life
7 Death and legacy
8 Estate
9 Filmography
10 Radio appearances
11 Awards and honors
12 References
13 Further reading
14 External links
Early life
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. was born in New York City; he was the only child of actor Douglas Fairbanks and his first wife, Anna Beth Sully. His paternal grandfather was Jewish. Fairbanks's father was one of cinema's first icons, noted for such swashbuckling adventure films as The Mark of Zorro, Robin Hood and The Thief of Bagdad. Fairbanks had small roles in his father's films American Aristocracy (1916) and The Three Musketeers (1921).
His parents divorced when he was nine years old, and both remarried.[1][2]
He lived with his mother in New York, California, Paris and London.[3]
Film career
Stephen Steps Out and Paramount
Largely on the basis of his father's name, in May 1923 Fairbanks Jr. was given a contract with Paramount Pictures at age 13, at $1,000 a week for three years. He was signed by Jesse L. Lasky who said the junior Fairbanks "is the typical American boy at his best" and said it was likely he be starred on a film about Tom Swayer.[4][5]
"I do not think it is the right thing for the boy to do," said his father. "I want to see him continue his education. He is only 13 years old."[6] The young actor arrived in Hollywood in June 1923 and was mobbed.[7]
Tom Sawyer was not made. Instead Fairbanks Jnr appeared in Stephen Steps Out (1923).[8][9][10] The film was not a hit.
Paramount and he parted ways by mutual consent and Doug went to Paris to resume his studies. A year later he returned to the studio, hired at what Fairbanks called "starvation wages" also having him work as a camera assistant.[11]
"I was anxious to build my career as an actor slowly and painstakingly," he said. "I don't want to be a young blonde leading man with an aquiline nose and shiny white teeth."[12]
Paramount gave him supporting roles in The Air Mail (1925) and Wild Horse Mesa (1925).[13]
Stella Dallas and Young Woodley
Sam Goldwyn borrowed him to play the juvenile in Stella Dallas (1925), which wound up being his first box office success.[14]
He had supporting roles in Paramount's The American Venus (1926), and Padlocked (1926).
At Warner Bros., Fairbanks was in Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926), then, at Metropolitan Pictures, he was in Man Bait (1926).[15]
At MGM he was in Edmund Goulding's Women Love Diamonds (1927) and for Alfred E. Green at Fox he was in Is Zat So? (1927). He supported Will Rogers in A Texas Steer (1927).
In 1927 Fairbanks made his stage debut in Young Woodley based on a book by John Van Druten.[16] Fairbanks Jr received excellent reviews and the production was a success - the play did much to improve his reputation in Hollywood. A regular audience member was Joan Crawford with whom Fairbanks would become romantically involved.[17][18]
He also appeared in a stage production of Saturday's Children.[12]
Early leading-man roles
Fairbanks' second lead role was in Dead Man's Curve (1928) for FBO. He was Helene Chadwick's leading man in Modern Mothers (1928) at Columbia and he starred in The Toilers (1928) for Tiffany.
Fairbanks starred in another for Columbia, The Power of the Press (1928), directed by Frank Capra.[19]
He went back to supporting roles for The Barker (1928) at First National, his first "talkie"[20] and A Woman of Affairs (1928) at MGM with Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
Fairbanks had another starring role at FBO with The Jazz Age (1929) and received top billing over Loretta Young in Fast Life (1928) at Warner Bros.
He appeared in MGM's Our Modern Maidens (1929) opposite Crawford.[8]
First National and Warner Bros.
First National gave Fairbanks a starring role in The Careless Age (1929) and he was reunited with Young in The Forward Pass (1929). He was one of many names in The Show of Shows (1929). In September 1929 he returned to the stage in a production of The Youngest.[21]
Victor Halperin cast Fairbanks in the lead of Party Girl (1929) then back at First National he did a third with Young, Loose Ankles (1930).
In 1930, Fairbanks Jr. went to Warner Bros. to test for the second lead in Moby Dick (1930). Although he did not win the part, head of production Darryl F. Zanuck was impressed with Douglas's screen test, and cast him in an important role in The Dawn Patrol directed by Howard Hawks.[22]
Universal borrowed him to have the lead role in Little Accident (1930) and at Warners he was in the lead in The Sin Flood (1930). He supported Leslie Howard in the prestigious Outward Bound (1930) and was Billie Dove's leading man in One Night at Susie's (1930).
Little Caesar
Fairbanks had an excellent role supporting Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar (1931), filmed in August 1930.[23] "We knew it was going to be good when we were making it but not that it would become a classic", he later said.[11]
The movie was a big hit, and Warner Bros. offered Fairbanks Jr. a contract with cast and script approval — a condition which, Fairbanks Jr. says, was only offered to one other actor at the studio, Richard Barthelmess.[22]
""By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early '30s, and although I was still in my 20s, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!"[24]
Because he spoke French he was put in L'aviateur (1931). Back in Hollywood he was in Changes (1931) and I Like Your Nerve (1931) with Young.
In June 1931 he starred in another play The Man in Possession which he also produced along with Sid Graumann. Fairbanks Jnr said he wanted to stay away from costume adventures which were associated with his father.[25]
He starred in two for Alfred E Green, Gentleman for a Day (1932) with Joan Blondell and It's Tough to Be Famous (1932). He starred in a film shot in French, L'athlète incomplet (1932).
He starred in Love Is a Racket (1932) for William Wellman and Scarlet Dawn (1932) for William Dieterle. Fairbanks did another with Green, Parachute Jumper (1933), which gave an early co starring role to Bette Davis.
Fairbanks starred again with Young in The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) and did The Narrow Corner (1933) with Green.
RKO borrowed Fairbanks to support Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory (1933), a big success.
Fairbanks was reunited with Howard in Captured! (1933).
In 1934, Warner asked all its stars to take a 50 percent pay cut because of the Depression. Fairbanks Jr. refused and was fired from the studio. He received a job offer from Britain and spent the next few years there.[26]
Britain and Criterion Films
Fairbanks went to Britain to star in Alex Korda's The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934) playing Grand Duke Peter opposite Elisabeth Bergner.
"Hollywood was getting to be a grind", he said at the time. "They had me doing five and six pictures a year. Some of them looked all right on paper but they had the habit of slipping down into programmer class. Only once in three years would I get a part that I cared about. I kept going up and down the ladder and not getting any place. There was nothing stable about my career in Hollywood."[27]
He intended to return to Hollywood to appear in Design for Living but fell ill on the way and Gary Cooper took his part. He did go back for Success at Any Price (1934) at RKO then returned to London for Mimi (1935). The latter starred Gertrude Lawrence, who became romantically involved with Fairbanks Jr.[28] He announced he would make Zorro Rides Again with his father.[27]
Fairbanks fell ill during the 1936 flu epidemic.[29]
Fairbanks set up his own film production company, Citerion Films, where the board members included Paul Czinner.[30] Among Criterion's films were Man of the Moment (1935), The Amateur Gentleman (1936), Accused (1936), and Jump for Glory (1937) (directed by Raoul Walsh). He announced Lancelot but did not make it.[31]
Return to Hollywood and focus on action roles
Fairbanks Jr. returned to Hollywood when David O. Selznick offered him the role of Rupert of Hentzau in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). He had been reluctant to accept the role but his father urged him to do it, saying it was "actor proof".[32] The movie was a big success.
In December 1937 he signed a non-exclusive contract with RKO to make two films a year for five years, at $75,000 a film.[33]
RKO used him as Irene Dunne's leading man in Joy of Living (1938). At Universal he was Danielle Darrieux's co star in The Rage of Paris (1938) and Ginger Rogers's in RKO's Having Wonderful Time (1938).
Selznick used him again in The Young in Heart (1938) with Janet Gaynor.
Fairbanks then had his biggest-ever hit with RKO's Gunga Din (1939), alongside Cary Grant and Victor McLaglen.
Fairbanks Jr. began to work increasingly in action/adventure films: The Sun Never Sets (1939) at Universal; Rulers of the Sea (1939) at Paramount; Green Hell (1940) for James Whale at Universal, a flop; and Safari (1940) at Paramount.
He had a change of pace when he starred in and co-produced Angels Over Broadway (1940), written and directed by Ben Hecht at Columbia.
His last film before enlisting was The Corsican Brothers (1941), a swashbuckler made as tribute to Fairbanks' father. Fairbanks did not have faith in the film while it was being filmed ("I thought we were cutting corners") but it was a huge success.[11]
World War II
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., "Father of the U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers"
Although celebrated as an actor, Fairbanks was commissioned as a reserve officer in the United States Navy when the United States entered World War II and was assigned to Lord Mountbatten's Commando staff in the United Kingdom.[34]
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him special envoy to South America. Fairbanks served on the cruiser USS Wichita during the disastrous Convoy PQ 17 operation.[35]
Having witnessed (and participated in) British training and cross-Channel harassment operations emphasizing the military art of deception, Fairbanks attained a depth of understanding and appreciation of military deception then unheard of in the United States Navy. Lieutenant Fairbanks was subsequently transferred to Virginia Beach where he came under the command of Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, who was preparing U.S. naval forces for the invasion of North Africa.
Fairbanks convinced Hewitt of the advantages of a military deception unit, then repeated the proposal at Hewett's behest to Admiral Ernest King, Chief of Naval Operations. King thereupon issued a secret letter on March 5, 1943 charging the Vice Chief of Naval Operations with the recruitment of 180 officers and 300 enlisted men for the Beach Jumper program.
The Beach Jumpers' mission would simulate amphibious landings with a very limited force. Operating dozens of kilometers from the actual landing beaches and utilizing their deception equipment, the Beach Jumpers would lure the enemy into believing that theirs was the principal landing.
United States Navy Beach Jumpers saw their initial action in Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily. Throughout the remainder of the war, the Beach Jumpers conducted their hazardous, shallow-water operations throughout the Mediterranean.
For his planning the diversion-deception operations and his part in the amphibious assault on Southern France, Lieutenant Commander Fairbanks was awarded the United States Navy's Legion of Merit with bronze V (for valor), the Italian War Cross for Military Valor, the French Légion d'honneur and the Croix de guerre with Palm, and the British Distinguished Service Cross.
Fairbanks was also awarded the Silver Star for valor displayed while serving on PT boats and in 1942 made an Officer the National Order of the Southern Cross, conferred by the Brazilian government.[36][37]
Among his other exploits was the sinking of the corvette UJ-6083 (formerly the Regia Marina Gabbiano-class Capriolo) while in command of a mixed division of American PT Boats and British Insect-class gunboats plus assorted other small craft. Fairbanks commanded from HMS Aphis.[38]
Fairbanks stayed in the US Naval Reserve after the war and ultimately retired as a captain in 1954.
Post-war years
Hollywood
Fairbanks with Maureen O'Hara in Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
Fairbanks returned to Hollywood at the conclusion of World War II. He spent two years finding a comeback vehicle and picked Sinbad the Sailor (1947), which was not a big hit.
He followed it with The Exile (1947), another swashbuckler, which Fairbanks wrote and produced; it was directed by Max Ophuls. The film was the first of three independent films Fairbanks was to produce - the others being a big screen version of Terry and the Pirates, and a film called Happy Go Lucky.[39][40] It was another box office disappointment.
He thought his career would be revived by That Lady in Ermine with Betty Grable but director Ernst Lubitsch died during production and was replaced by Otto Preminger; the resulting film was not a success and Fairbanks Jr believes this cost his career momentum.[41]
Fairbanks tried another swashbuckler for his own company, The Fighting O'Flynn (1949).[42]
British career
As a confirmed Anglophile, Fairbanks spent much time in the United Kingdom, where he was well known in the highest social circles. He was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1949 and moved there in the early 1950s.[citation needed]
Fairbanks starred in the British thriller State Secret (1950) written and directed by Sidney Gilliat and a comedy for Val Guest, Mr Drake's Duck (1951)[43]
Between 1954 and 1956 he also made a number of half-hour programs at one of the smaller Elstree film studios as part of a syndicated anthology series for television called Douglas Fairbanks Presents.[44][45]
In the mid-1950s, Fairbanks was a guest star on NBC's The Martha Raye Show. On February 7, 1957, he appeared on NBC's The Ford Show starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.
He co-produced the films The Silken Affair (1957) and Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958).[46]
In 1961, he was a guest at the wedding of Katharine Worsley to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.[47]
Coat of Arms of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Fairbanks in 1958 wearing the mantle and insignia of a Knight of Justice of the Order of St. John.
He guest starred on shows such as Route 66, The DuPont Show of the Week, The United States Steel Hour, The Red Skelton Hour, Dr. Kildare, and ABC Stage 67. He played King Richard in a TV musical The Legend of Robin Hood (1968).[48]
Later career
On stage, Fairbanks toured in My Fair Lady in 1968, and in The Pleasure of His Company several times, including tours in the U.S. in 1970–72 and the 1977 Australian production with Stanley Holloway, David Langton, Carole Ray and Christine Amore.[49][50]
He appeared in some TV movies and TV series, including The Crooked Hearts (1972), The Hostage Tower (1980), and The Love Boat.
His last feature film was Ghost Story (1981). His last TV roles were in the mini series Strong Medicine (1987) and the TV series B.L. Stryker.
He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1989 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel.
Personal life
His first notable relationship was with the actress Joan Crawford, whom he began to date seriously during the filming of Our Modern Maidens. Fairbanks and Crawford married on June 3, 1929 at St. Malachy in New York City.[51] Fairbanks was only 19; Crawford was four years older.
They travelled to Britain on a delayed honeymoon, where he was entertained by Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Beatrice Lillie, and Prince George, Duke of Kent. He became active in both society and politics, but Crawford was far more interested in her career and had an affair with Clark Gable. In his first autobiography he would later admit that he was also unfaithful during that period and that he unsuccessfully pursued Katharine Hepburn during the filming of Morning Glory. The couple divorced in 1933, but the divorce would not become final for another year.[52]
Despite their divorce, Fairbanks was quick to defend Crawford when her adopted daughter Christina Crawford published Mommie Dearest, a scathing biography of Crawford's personal life. He firmly stated, "The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in Mommie Dearest is not the Joan Crawford I knew back then."[53] In his autobiography he would state that he never saw a hint of any significant anger outbursts from Crawford during their marriage and that she was more likely to sulk or argue than become angry.
On April 22, 1939, Fairbanks married Mary Lee Hartford (née Mary Lee Epling), a former wife of Huntington Hartford, the A&P supermarket heir. He remained devoted to her until her death in 1988. They had three daughters: Daphne, Victoria and Melissa, as well as eight grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.[54]
The College of Arms in London granted Fairbanks a coat of arms symbolizing the U.S. and Britain united across the blue Atlantic Ocean by a silken knot of friendship.[55]
In 1982, Fairbanks was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contribution to the relief of the needy in occupied Germany.[citation needed]
It has been claimed that Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was the naked man in the incriminating photos used as evidence in the divorce trial of Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll in 1963.[56][57] However, in 2013, Lady Colin Campbell, Margaret Campbell's stepdaughter-in-law, revealed that the man in the photo was actually Bill Lyons, sales director of Pan American Airlines.[58]
He was also named in connection with the Profumo Scandal.[59]
Fairbanks was a friend of Laurence Olivier and was among the contributors to a documentary by The South Bank Show called Laurence Olivier: A Life. He was also a close friend of Sir Rex Harrison and was a presenter at Harrison's New York City memorial service.[citation needed]
He wrote his autobiography, Salad Days, in 1988.[60] In addition, Fairbanks wrote a chronicle of his experiences during the Second World War, A Hell of a War published in 1993.[61] Beyond his two volumes of autobiography, Fairbanks collaborated with Richard Schickel on the illustrated survey of Fairbanks Sr. and Jr. called The Fairbanks Album (1975)[62] and Jeffrey Vance with a critical study/biography of Fairbanks Sr. ultimately published as Douglas Fairbanks (2008).[63]
On May 30, 1991, Fairbanks married Vera Lee Shelton, a merchandiser for QVC Network Inc.[64]
Death and legacy
Fairbanks' tomb at Hollywood Forever
On the morning of May 7, 2000, Fairbanks died at the age of 90 of a heart attack and was interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, in the same tomb as his father.
Fairbanks has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures at 6318 Hollywood Boulevard, one for television at 6665 Hollywood Boulevard and one for radio at 6710 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1969 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Best Dressed List.[65]
The moving image collection of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is held at the Academy Film Archive and includes over 90 reels of home movies.[66]
Estate
Fairbanks's personal belongings were auctioned September 13, 2011 by Doyle New York, surpassing estimated proceeds by netting over a half-million dollars.[67]
Filmography
American Aristocracy (1916)
The Three Musketeers (1921)
Stephen Steps Out (1923)
The Air Mail (1925)
Wild Horse Mesa (1925)
Stella Dallas (1925)
The American Venus (1926)
Padlocked (1926)
Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926)
Man Bait (1927)
Women Love Diamonds (1927)
Is Zat So? (1927)
A Texas Steer (1927)
Dead Man's Curve (1928)
Modern Mothers (1928)
The Toilers (1928)
The Power of the Press (1928)
The Barker (1928)
A Woman of Affairs (1928)
The Forward Pass (1929)
The Jazz Age (1929)
Our Modern Maidens (1929)
Fast Life (1929)
The Show of Shows (1929)
The Careless Age (1929)
The Way of All Men (1930)
Loose Ankles (1930)
Outward Bound (1930)
The Dawn Patrol (1930)
The Little Accident (1930)
One Night at Susie's (1930)
Party Girl (1930)
Little Caesar (1931)
Chances (1931)
I Like Your Nerve (1931)
It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)
Union Depot (1932)
Love Is a Racket (1932)
Scarlet Dawn (1932)
L'athlète incomplete (1932)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
The Narrow Corner (1933)
Morning Glory (1933)
Captured! (1933)
Success at Any Price (1934)
The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
Man of the Moment (1935)
Mimi (1935)
Accused (1936)
The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
Jump for Glory (1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Joy of Living (1938)
The Rage of Paris (1938)
Having Wonderful Time (1938)
The Young in Heart (1938)
Gunga Din (1939)
Rulers of the Sea (1939)
The Sun Never Sets (1939)
Green Hell (1940)
Safari (1940)
Angels Over Broadway (1940) - also producer
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
The Exile (1947)
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)
State Secret (1950)
Mister Drake's Duck (1951)
The Triangle (1953)
The Genie (1953)
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958) - producer only
Red, White and Zero (1967)
The Crooked Hearts (1972) (TV movie)
The Hostage Tower (1980)
Ghost Story (1981)
Strong Medicine (1986)
Radio appearances
| Year | Program | Episode/source |
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| 1946 | Screen Guild Players | The Old Lady Shows Her Medals[68] |
Awards and honors
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- Silver Star
- Legion of Merit
American Defense Service Medal with "A" device- American Campaign Medal
- European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
- World War II Victory Medal
- Naval Reserve Medal
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1949 (KBE, United Kingdom)
Knight of the Order of St John (KStJ, United Kingdom)- Knight of the Legion of Honor (France)
- Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross (Brazil)
Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
Croix de Guerre, 1939-1945 with bronze palm (France)
War Cross for Military Valor (Italy)
Federal Cross of Merit, Commander's Cross (West Germany)- Navy Expert Pistol Shot Medal
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McNulty, Thomas (2004). Errol Flynn: the Life and Career. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN 978-0-78641-750-6.
Further reading
Wise, James (1997). Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557509379. OCLC 36824724.
External links
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. on IMDb
"Obituary: Douglas Fairbanks Jr". The Daily Telegraph. 8 May 2000.
"Photographs of Douglas Fairbanks Jr". Virtual-History.com.
"Fairbanks, Jr, Douglas Elton Ulman (Oral history)". Imperial War Museum. July 31, 1984.
"Douglas Fairbanks Jr KBE DSC (1909-2000)". The Big Red Book.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and the Beach Jumpers 9:55 video
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