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Douglas Fairbanks

noun

United States film actor noted for his swashbuckling roles (1883-1939). Synonyms: Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Julius Ullman.

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... certain grim satisfaction in thinking how we all—every human being of us—share alike in bondage to your oppression. There is the only true and complete democracy, the only absolute brotherhood of man. The great ones of the earth—Charley Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, General Pershing and Miss Amy Lowell—all these are in service to the same tyranny. Day after day slips or jolts past, joins the Great Majority; suddenly we wake with a start to find that the best of it is gone by. Surely it seems but a day ago that Stevenson ...

— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley

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... Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, a very "fresh" young actor, was the heroic bell boy, a very bad advertisement for New York hostelries. He worked harder than any bell boy has ever been known to do, and it seemed a shame to waste so much effort on alleged "drammer." Mr. ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various

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... men declare that the Prince is the best "fil-lm" actor living, since he is absolutely unstudied in manner; but it would have taken a Douglas Fairbanks of a super-breed to remain unembarrassed in the face of that cold line of lenses thrust close up to his medal ribbons. And in the film he shows his feelings in characteristic movements of lips ...

— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton

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... Preparing to Pair With the Prickly Pear A Little Spin Among the Saplings Over the Hills and Far Away—Father and Son A Scene from "His Picture in the Papers" A Scene from "The Americano"—Matching Wits for Gold Taking on Local Color A Scene from "His Picture in the Papers" Douglas Fairbanks in "The Good Bad-Man" Squaring Things With Sister—From "The Habit of Happiness" A Scene from "In Again—Out Again" Bungalowing in California Demonstrating the Monk and the Hand-Organ to a Body of Psychologists "Wedlock in Time"—The Fairbanks' ...

— Laugh and Live • Douglas Fairbanks

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