Mayer, head of the MGM studio. It was formed as a non-profit group to support and improve the film industry. Actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., the Academy’s first president, hosted the event. Unlike today ...

Death-defying performers like Tom Mix, Helen Gibson, Harold Lloyd, and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. brought their craft to film before the Academy was even formed. And there have been countless great ...

Death-defying performers like Tom Mix, Helen Gibson, Harold Lloyd, and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. brought their craft to film before the Academy was even formed. And there have been countless great ...

Over the years, it has hosted a variety of notable figures, including conservationist Enos Mills, actress Ethel Barrymore, actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and evangelist Billy Sunday, as well as ...

She also married Musical Comedy Actor Ray Raymond ... Testament. When Douglas Fairbanks Sr. died suddenly last Dec. 12, Hollywood’s wise men guessed his estate would be a whopper, but did ...

Actor Harry Shearer called it "drastically ... Fatty Arbuckle, Pola Negri, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, and Mary Pickford. While this would make it a treasured historical artefact, it's one of the ...

Haines plays Billy Boone, lead actor of a slapstick comedy studio ... including Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., William S. Hart, and John Gilbert. In 2003, Show People was selected ...

Its first president and the host of the May 1929 ceremony was the actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Unlike today, the winners of the first Oscars – as the coveted gold-plated statuettes later became known ...

Two people were on board, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. A Douglas C-54 aircraft transporting fuel crashed into a frozen river shortly after takeoff Tuesday in Fairbanks, Alaska ...

Even though a trained Shakespearean actor, Bill Hart had visited the west as a boy ... who was as acrobatic as the famous Douglas Fairbanks Sr. One wonders what could have happened to his career if ...

He had very few intimate friends. He had one best friend, actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr., who died in 1939 at age 56. There was nobody to replace him and Chaplin didn’t try. He did have people who ...