Tagged: Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Mr. Robinson Crusoe is one of the few “talkie” films starring Douglas Fairbanks, who also produced the film. The film was directed by A. Edward Sutherland, a veteran silent film director, for Fairbanks’s Elton Productions, and released by United Artists. Steve Drexel (played by Fairbanks) shows a fiery optimism and can-do spirit that matches the [...]
This historical drama recounts the events that led up to the rule of Russia’s 18th-century Catherine the Great. Arriving from Germany as a young woman who is to wed Grand Duke Peter, she soon becomes caught up in the court intrigue and marries the lit-fuse duke. As the Grand Duke’s mother lays dying, she relates [...]
Nicole de Cortillon (Danielle Darrieux) is broke and sets her sites on finding a rich husband. Her prey is Bill Duncan (Louis Hayward) a millionaire. Her cohorts are her friend Gloria and the maitre’d at a ritzy New York City hotel. Jim Trevor (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) knows Nicole and may foil the plot. [...]
The Stolen Jools (1931) is a short comedy film produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by the film stars of the day. They appeared in the film to help raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
When the film was shown in theaters in 1931, a person would appear [...]
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