“Well, they’ve been running around”: Ibid.
Sylvia’s divorce was coming up: Daily Chronicle (Centralia, WA), October 2, 1934.
Fairbanks was conspicuous by his absence: Modesto Bee and News-Herald, November 20, 1934.
“There is hardly a clue”: Alistair Cooke, Douglas Fairbanks: The Making of a Screen Character, Museum of Modern Art Film Library Series 2 (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1940), 30.
they were not to be disturbed: Hayward Daily Review, November 23, 1934.
Doug leaving the bedroom in his dressing gown: Fresno Bee, November 28, 1934.
“In case in after years”: Pickford note to self, December 24, 1934, private collection.
20. A Living Death
“deaf to all queries”: San Mateo Times, December 29, 1934.
He drank little: Gleaner, January 8, 1935.
They went to Paris: Mansfield News, January 8, 1935.
They were dancing until four in the morning: Lincoln Star, January 11, 1935.
DEAR DUBER AM NOTIFYING YOU PERSONALLY: Mary Pickford Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, CA.
her voice faltered and broke: Evening Tribune (Albert Lea, MN), January 11, 1935.
When the judge granted the decree: Lincoln Star, January 11, 1935.
“Mary Pickford’s decision to go through with her divorce”: Modesto Bee and News Herald, January 1, 1935.
He was photographed in St. Moritz: Fresno Bee Republican, January 13, 1935; Syracuse Herald, January 19, 1935.
“I feel like his papa”: Hammond Times, March 5, 1936.
From Switzerland to Rome: Ogden Standard-Examiner, January 29, 1935.
from Rome to London: Gleaner, February 8, 1935.
from there to the Bahamas: Syracuse Herald, February 14, 1935.
he nodded approval as Sylvia spent: Nevada State Journal, March 13, 1935.
he offered to “sock” reporters “in the nose”: Greely Daily Tribune, February 20, 1935.
“For all I care”: Lowell Sun, March 5, 1935.
“The press has treated me rotten”: Nevada State Journal, March 10, 1935.
The London Daily Express held an unpopularity contest: San Mateo Times, March 14, 1935.
All stayed below decks: Gleaner, March 28, 1935.
“severe in his denunciations of the Fourth Estate”: Ibid.
was leaving the company for Fox: Ogden Standard-Examiner, May 29, 1935.
“he personifies youth”: Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976), 120.
“It is clear to me that Sam Goldwyn”: Ibid., 122.
Mary wired Doug in Singapore: Gleaner, June 8, 1935.
a nod, a quick handshake: Hammond Times, July 8, 1935.
“I spent a fortune on that damned trip”: Letitia Fairbanks and Ralph Hancock, Doug Fairbanks: The Fourth Musketeer (New York: Henry Holt, 1953), 256.
a thousand pounds of luggage: Oakland Tribune, July 10, 1935.
They sailed on the Empress of Britain: Port Arthur News, July 13, 1935.
Fairbanks “might have been a tired businessman”: Evening State Journal, June 1, 1937.
“a world-weary man”: Reno Evening Gazette, September 4, 1936.
“Finally, the jowls dropped”: Peter Bogdanovich, Who the Devil Made It (New York: Knopf, 1997), 166.
“How can I be engaged to a man”: Kingsport Times, July 18, 1935.
Robert would “build up a business pretext”: Fairbanks and Hancock, Doug Fairbanks, 259.
Fairbanks had sent word ahead to refurbish: Reno Evening Gazette, January 4, 1936.
and to fill his private pool at the studio: Nevada State Journal, January 5, 1936.
“I know and the whole world knows”: Mary Pickford, Sunshine and Shadow (New York: Doubleday, 1955), 193.
“Let’s put ourselves on the shelf”: Fairbanks and Hancock, Doug Fairbanks, 259.
“Pete sent long, long telegrams to Mary”: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., The Salad Days (New York: Doubleday, 1988), 252.
“terribly distraught, anxious and quite unreceptive”: Ibid., 254.
“The exact wording of the message is lost”: Ibid., 254.
Fairbanks had boarded the Aquitania: Lethbridge Herald, February 27, 1936.
He traveled under a pseudonym: Hayward Daily Review, March 4, 1936.
“It’s too late,” he reportedly said: Fairbanks and Hancock, Doug Fairbanks, 261.
He arrived at Cherbourg on March 3: Middletown Times Herald, March 3, 1936.
leaving behind such necessities as her birth certificate: Syracuse Herald, March 6, 1936.
scuttling about between lawyer and government offices: Lima News, March 5, 1936.
trying to get the residence and marriage banns requirements waived: Helena Independent, March 5, 1936.
the state’s attorney delivered papers: Port Arthur News, March 6, 1936.
city hall had closed for the day: Ironwood Daily Globe, March 6, 1936.
he also was without his divorce papers: Daily Gleaner, March 16, 1936.
under a ceiling of floating fleshy cupids: Gettysburg Times, March 7, 1936.
a rose-colored coat with a large corsage: Hammond Times, March 7, 1936.
“Douglas Fairbanks, Junior’s pa”: Headline Parade, March 7, 1936.
“Now dearie, please!”: Fresno Bee, March 8, 1936.
They flew to Spain on a private plane: Evening Tribune (MN), March 9, 1936.
“It cost me 10,000 francs”: Vidette Messenger (IN), March 17, 1936.
“a has-been”: Fairbanks and Hancock, Doug Fairbanks, 263.
they were still in their evening clothes: Syracuse Herald, May 1, 1936.
“Tell them you enjoyed the skyline”: Ibid.
Sam Goldwyn would coproduce Marco Polo: Syracuse Herald, October 27, 1936.
“Three meetings later, Fairbanks found Goldwyn”: A. Scott Berg, Goldwyn: A Biography (New York: Knopf, 1989), 317.
“I’ll let the young fellows carry on”: Arcadia Tribune, July 24, 1936.
The rumored price was $50,000: Charleston Gazette, January 28, 1936.
O’Brien referred to her as “Lady Ashcan”: Booton Herndon, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks: The Most Popular Couple the World Has Ever Known (New York: Norton, 1977), 292.
he was maintaining an establishment in London: Evening State Journal (Lincoln, NE), January 7, 1938.
A fire swept through Kenneth Ridge: Seattle Daily Times, May 16, 1939.
Sam Goldwyn, now with control: Edwardsville Intelligencer, August 19, 1938.
Doug was breakfasting: Kansas City Journal-Post, February 3, 1936.
“He shook his head”: Ibid.
During the course of a heated debate: Robert Windeler, Sweetheart: The Story of Mary Pickford (New York: Praeger, 1973), 181.
“How dare you talk to my wife like that?”: Fairbanks and Hancock, Doug Fairbanks, 264.
“‘All my life I’ve been an adventurer:’” Berg, Goldwyn, 317.
“If the deal can be concluded”: Balio, United Artists, 146.
WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE GIVEN LENGTHY OPTION: Ibid., 147–148.
The most pointed came after the February 1938 visit: Nevada State Journal, February 21, 1938; Daily Herald (Circleville, OH), February 25, 1938; Fresno Bee Republican, March 2, 1938.
“For a man my age”: Fairbanks and Hancock, Doug Fairbanks, 265.
He donated all the films: Springfield Republican, April 30, 1939.
Elsa Maxwell’s “Barn Party”: Portsmouth Times, January 19, 1937.
He still topped the best-dressed lists: Vidette Messenger (IN), May 12, 1938.
the most extravagant patron: Times Herald (New York, NY), November 24, 1936.
He was found on the slopes of St. Moritz: Fitchburg Sentinel, December 12, 1936.
He “at least behaved as if he was happy”: Fairbanks Jr., Salad Days, 325.
“When I think of him I always thi
nk”: Douglas Fairbanks Papers, scrapbook 1: condolence letters, Margaret Herrick Library.
JUST HEARD FROM SILVERSTONE: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Papers, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University, Boston, MA.
“to think of the past years at his service”: Douglas Fairbanks Papers, scrapbook 1: condolence letters, Margaret Herrick Library.
“I got out just before the public got wise”: Times-Picayune, May 12, 1939.
Germany would “go ahead with its program”: Fitchburg Sentinel, September 2, 1939.
“Britain is so ready, and [the Nazis] know it”: Ibid.
A quick run on the Dixie Clipper: Marietta Journal, September 6, 1939.
“Silverstone will be subservient to Sam”: Balio, United Artists, 151.
“pictures would not be good enough”: Ibid., 155.
“I’ve been your friend for many years”: Berg, Goldwyn, 337.
There was jubilation in the offices of United Artists: Variety, December 28, 1939.
He had sent Jayar a telegram that afternoon: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Papers, box 157, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
“We played games and were frightfully gay”: Unless otherwise indicated, quotes from this section are from carbon copies of responses to condolence letters in Douglas Fairbanks Papers, scrapbook 1: condolence letters, Margaret Herrick Library.
“When my turn came”: Fairbanks Jr., Salad Days, 347.
“I’m tired,” she reported him replying: Herndon, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, 299.
“They put him to bed”: Variety, December 13, 1939.
impulsively kissed him on the forehead: Fairbanks Jr., Salad Days, 3.
“Don’t say it, Gwynne!”: Pickford, Sunshine and Shadow, 207.
she would cry out in the night for him: Windeler, Sweetheart, 4.
“old timers who worked with Fairbanks”: Variety, December 13, 1939.
Standing silent on the lawn: Unmarked clippings in Douglas Fairbanks Papers, scrapbook 1: condolence letters, Margaret Herrick Library.
Chico De Verdi, violinist, conducted: Variety, December 16, 1939.
“the symbol of romance and eternal youth”: Educational Screen, April, 1928.
He was clad in a frock cutaway coat: Los Angeles Examiner, Dec 16, 1939.
The card had one word: Douglas Fairbanks Papers, scrapbook 1: condolence letters, Margaret Herrick Library.
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