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Douglas Fairbanks

Born 1883.
Died 12 December 1939 of a heart attack.

Married Anna Beth Sully; son, actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., born 9 December 1909; divorced.
Married actress Mary Pickford, 28 March 1920; divorced, December 1933.
Married Sylvia Ashley, 1936.

Douglas Fairbanks began a career in vaudeville in 1902. Began in films in 1915 for Triangle Film Corporation. Began his own production company, and became a cofounder of United Artists Corporation. Produced some of the silent era’s grandest screen spectacles during the 1920s.

While on a world vacation, Fairbanks and Pickford sailed from Piraeus, Greece, arriving in Cairo, Egypt, circa 5 November 1929. On 12 November 1929, they sailed from Port Said on the S.S. Cathay for ports in the Far East.

Fairbanks continued making films into the 1930s, but had retired from films by the middle of the decade.

References: Variety-19291106 pp. 2, 5.