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The sign of capacity it shows his growing influence as a founder of UAC and his prevalence within cinema has grown again.
His face it the tartan shirt is smiling and youthful. The drawing looks fit and healthy with an admired figure.
Douglas Fairbanks is large text to highlight his importance.
His style makes him look masculine like a lumberjack. Looks at one with nature and content with life.
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Here are nine pictures of unusual merit It shows the importance of Fairbanks to Hollywood.
Someone who is a businessman who was bale to churn out films but more importantly star in ones that were classed a good films too.
His name pasted on the page three times shows the importance of him and the originality to his work which was inventive yet familiar.
This page is a simple page with no pictures, this is to highlight the actors and directors work over the stylised visions of their imagination.
Within these three films there is a common occurrence. Love, romance, adventure and comedy. It creates a synonymous representation of the man himself: stunt loving, straight man and funny.
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The American Gesture … the Interpreter of a Nation This shows how the public n editors viewed Fairbanks.
This article shows Fairbanks in a positive light whereby he has furthered American society by his onscreen acting and his business enterprises.
The economic rise of Fairbanks is meteoric which coincides with American virtues of privatising industry and leaving it to the individual to run.
This article is the pinnacle of positive for an actor who is celebrated in every sentence.
This over exaggeration of Fairbanks career up to date over glorifies him and shows his success without any of the failures that occurred along the way.
This is to be read by people everywhere which shows Fairbanks positively which helps his reputation and films further.
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Douglas Fairbanks, Manuel Alonso and William Tilden on a tennis court forming a human pyramid This shows Fairbanks who is in the middle of the pyramid enjoys having time off with friends.
This makes him approachable and more down to earth other than a celebrity who is power and business driven.
It shows other aspects of life matter to him as well. Fun, Friendship and Sports.
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Les Vedettes de Cinéma : United Artists : Max Linder, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin It shows the three as stars. One currently in action and two normally. They are lined up and photographed, therefore the photo looks a little uncomfortable due to the wry smiles by all three who do not look happy nor sad. The smiles seem fake and put on especially for the photo.
This photo marks the hidden element s of cinema, the making f movies. Fairbanks in costume looks unusual compared to his peers next to him, however on set with actors for the film he would look far more normal. It shows a key element of film which is its fictionality.
The three look very detached from each other with gaps in-between each other to keep a distance from touching. The idea that physical contact between men was not normal.
The bottom of the card contains the company United Artists which produced 'Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood' (1922).
Chaplin and Fairbanks were both founders in this company which became so prosperous in the 1920's.
Fairbanks stands out in the photo due to his centrality which indicates his influence in the film. He was screenwriter, star and producer.
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Charles Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks walking in the Studios Backs facing the camera can feel authentic as the subjects seem to be unaware of the photo being taken. However it can in some extreme cases make the subjects look pompous or self-absorbed. It could perhaps have that effect here as they feel so famous that people will know its them even from behind.
Hiding your face from the camera can suggest you are trying to hide something from others. in this can it could be suggested the talks they have are secretive and this photo displays this secret that divides the public and the stars.
This shot is from a distance and feel as if this is as close as we are allowed to get, like a barrier is stopping us from getting closer.
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The Inverell Times - Douglas Fairbanks clipping This longevity of the film has meant it being screened two years after release and around the world in Australia. It shows the worldwide stardom of Douglas Fairbanks.
Fairbanks did indeed have an influence in the making of 'Mollycoddle', he actually was producer, star, screenwriter and part owner of the distribution company United Artists. His Hollywood influence was great and this could be seen through his worldwide fame and acclaim.
He represents a clear American identity of a capitalist who is a private owner making profit in the countries media system.
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Exhibitor's Trade Review (Sep-Nov 1922) Part 1: It shows Fairbanks as a businessman and entrepreneur. The cost of the film clearly shows the trust companies had him and the trust he had in himself to write, produce and star within this film. it shows he has intelligence rather than just brawn which is usually shown in his films in the 1920's
Part 2:Fairbanks' name is in the title of the film, this is massive and doesn't even happen today. It shows how famous he is and how much weight his name caries within Hollywood. Doing this alongside his wife brings in gossip that reaches media like this. It also shows how relevant the couple are. His life and image in the 1920's is conjoined with Pickford's where the power couple became so famous. His image is therefore bound alongside hers and the idea of the masculine man that won over Pickford and married her.
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Declaration of intents It shows that there was an unhappiness by Fairbanks against censorship, unhelpful propaganda and people destroying theatre. Although this is one perspective it is understandable due to the echelon of names that followed.
As a businessman his reputation, acting and livelihood was threatened and it was something that he wanted to ratify.
It was not until 1934 when the Hays code introduced the film industry to the Motion Picture Production Code, which is known widely as “the Hays code.” For the first time there was a cohesive censorship guideline for films that were made and distributed in the United States.
This is the fear that Fairbanks and others worried about and they wanted to stop this.
This document shows his influence and his own knowledge of his power within Hollywood. Partially as a co-founder of United Artists but also as an influential star.
Their aim was not to stop new artforms from occurring but to stop the machines within film from determining what actors, directors and producers can make.
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Mary & Doug Travel to Russia Admirers of the advanced state of Soviet filmmaking, particularly Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, Doug and Mary extended their annual trip to Europe to visit Moscow in July, 1926.
Eisenstein was a great admirer of Douglas Fairbanks and in the 'Mask of Zorro'.
They were greeted by an outpouring of interest from fans they didn’t know they had. This shows the extent to their fame which had reached Russia.
Footage from the trip was made into 'A Kiss from Mary Pickford' by the Russian director Sergei Komarov.
The inside, enclosed videos of the couple become glimpses into their love, they look happy and comfortable with each other.
Fairbanks has gone to Russia in love of the new filmmaking methods. It shows his love for the film industry and his own personal aim to create new and inventive films.
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Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin behind the camera It shows how hands-on Fairbanks was with filmmaking in Hollywood.
As a director, producer, actor, stuntman and director it showed his versatility and skill within the films he created and performed in.
A very in-the-moment photo shows naturality about Fairbanks and Chaplin. Both showing them as friends and film stars naturally.
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Exhibitors Herald - United Artists The section is about films produced by Fairbanks, Griffiths and Pickford.
The majority are Fairbanks films with mixed reviews, this shows although he had a love for the cinema he did not always have the skill to pull off popular or successful films. It displays a clear message about how efficient and productive his company was to produce so many in the space of one year, and have exhibitors nationally screening his work.
Fairbanks is understated and his success, alongside Mary Pickford, in the 1920's was bigger than that of Chaplin or D.W. Griffiths. It shows how famous and popular he was in the decade.
This shows that his work is everywhere but also faced criticism from many alongside the praise.
The majority of the films by Fairbanks that are spoken about are also action films with himself as the lead. Perhaps indicating an ego or vanity. But is also proves his fame stems from just his swashbuckling feature films alongside his marriage to Pickford.
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Oscar Price and the founders of United Artists Corporation This is a photo of celebrities but in a private manner. Their backs are turned which indicates hiding something, in this instance it is the business details of creating United Artists.
Backs facing the camera shows the unawareness of the photo or the meaningfulness to have their faces within the photo.
Although outside the 1920-1929 dates it is important to understand this context of the friendship these stars had and the power they had for the next decade.
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'Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood' Trailer
This shows scale of productions by Douglas Fairbanks Pictures and how Hollywood was a growing industry in the silent era.
The large scale of this film with hundreds of extras, massive sets and famous actors presents a clear identity of Fairbanks who is more than just an actor. He is a businessman, an actor and movie star. His wealth is huge.
Fairbanks stars in a film which is violent and stereotypically 'macho'. Violence, action, war and weaponry are themes even today that are associated more with male actors than females.
This presents a masculine portrayal of Fairbanks and the type of films he would star in and produce.
Shots of him and a women indicate a love interest, inferring a romance between the two characters which ties into sexuality in the 1920's
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'Spanish People at Pickfair'
This shows so much.
Firstly it presents Fairbanks as a lover of films who, in his spare time with friends, loved creating films for fun not just as a business.
Powerful friends like Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford show how big his influence was in 1920's Hollywood.
It situates itself aside from normal Hollywood and questions gender roles and courting of women. This shows an intelligence and interest in questioning societies normalities.
It does not however diverge from the heterosexuality of men even if this does resent Chaplin's characters consciousness of flaunting privacy where he pulls over his tunic and crosses his legs like a woman. Still sexuality is not questioned enough.
Mary Pickford stands out within the little film and that is perhaps of her stardom or of her figure against other women.
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Picture Theatres This shows Fairbanks' reach outside of the US. His name is repeated three times on this small article at the top of the newspaper.
Again Fairbanks' influence into the film industry as he himself was a supervisor on the film, and his brother was head of technical effects. Douglas got places and had the importance to bring his family along.
Nepotism for Robert Fairbanks.
The showings were in 1922, two years after "The Mollycoddle" was released. Presents an importance and status to the film. It could be to gain more revenue on the fil or due to its popularity.
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Taming of the Shrew (United Artists) (1929) It shows how evocative and gossiped about their relationship was.
Their names are the the biggest text on the page which draw the reader in. it plays into the actors real lives which they are married to one another after divorcing others to be together.
Pickford's face hides Fairbanks' which insinuates that she is the main star and he is like an accessory to her stardom.
Perhaps it also hints at the films content where he plays a character who hides and is suspicious.
Produced by the couples production company it shows their prowess in the film industry.
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Douglas Fairbanks Stunts in "Don Q., Son of Zorro." Shows Fairbanks' masculinity by portraying him as a fearless man who faces danger and jumps through, he is able to better dangerous stunts from previous films in this meaning as a human he only grows. Making him look like the ideal American man
Love story within the article portrays his relationship as clearly of straight male that who faces rejection until he gets his way. Something which is wrong.
Subtly this articles presents the power of Douglas Fairbanks who, by my inference, has been able to get his sister-in-law onto a film to star in a film. This shows his massive presence in 1920's Hollywood both as an actor, businessman and producer.
His reach as an actor has crossed continents.
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The Era of the Great Single Film: "Robin Hood" - A full-sized Screen Play, as Opposed to "Variety" It shows the important role Fairbanks has within the film. This swashbuckling man who wins the woman and saves the day.
Exemplifies the importance of his role within the film as he also produces it with his then wife, Mary Pickford. He is the part owner of the distribution company United artists too. Showing he has wealth and control over his own acting and roles.
States his figure and ability to do his own stunts. Presents him as a fit, healthy man. All traits as a masculine man strive to achieve to be a model American.
This film was also released in Sweden in 1923
