DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR. ESTATE AUCTION SEPT. 13th Doyle New York will hold a major auction of items from the estate of the late Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on September 13th at 10 a.m. Eastern time. In addition to rare personal items of Doug Jr.’s, the auction catalog also contains several pieces that once belonged to [...]
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Fairbanks Estate Auction in NY Sept. 13
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, tagged Douglas Fairbanks Estate, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Hollywood auctions, Johnston McCulley, Mary Pickford, Zorro on September 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Museum Celebrates Fairbanks’ 128th Birthday at Grand Reopening
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, libraries and museums, mold, mold infestation, nonprofit arts organizations, sick building syndrome, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. on May 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
MUSEUM RE-OPENS IN SPITE OF HARDSHIPS By Dr. Laura Murray, museum volunteer Despite of the national economic recession, a mold infestation in the museum’s former building, and a burglary that resulted in the loss of hundreds of rare artifacts last year, the Douglas Fairbanks Museum is finally back open again. On what would have been [...]
Museum Reopening in May 2011
Posted in Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, libraries and museums, Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, United Artists, tagged classic movie news, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Silent Film Museums, Texas Museums on February 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
MUSEUM RE-OPENING ON SCHEDULE We are pleased to announce that the Douglas Fairbanks Museum will re-open to the public in May of 2011 as scheduled. Our doors will open Monday, May 23rd, on what would have been Mr. Fairbanks’ 128th birthday. The museum’s hours of operation are from 2-6 p.m, Monday through Friday. All [...]
February Features Fairbanks Films Every Week at the Silent Movie Theatre
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, libraries and museums, nonprofit arts organizations, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Festivals, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Art Deco movie theatres, Cinefamily, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Los Angeles Art Deco theaters, Los Angeles movie theaters, silent movie screenings, Silent Movie Theater, Silent Movie Theatre on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our sincere appreciation and thanks to the Cinefamily for featuring an entire month of Douglas Fairbanks’ classic films at the Silent Movie Theatre, a Los Angeles landmark.(611 N. Fairfax Ave.) All throughout the month of February, Fairbanks films will be playing every Wednesday night in this vintage Art Deco movie house. All screenings are open [...]
“The Mark of Zorro” Coming to the Long Center Jan. 30th
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, libraries and museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Long Center Austin, Long Center for the Performing Arts, The Mark of Zorro, Zorro on January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
ZORRO SLASHES INTO AUSTIN! Rick Benjamin’s PARAGON ORCHESTRA plays the original score to Douglas Fairbanks’ ‘The Mark of Zorro’ January 30, 2011 4 PM Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, TX “Listening to a full band perform the complete scores, written and timed to the action, became a surprising delight…The audience chuckled [...]
Museum Artifacts Stolen in Holiday Burglary
Posted in Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, libraries and museums, Mary Pickford, nonprofit arts organizations, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Festivals, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged art theft, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., museum burglary, museum robbery, museum security, museum theft, stolen artifacts, stolen cultural property on January 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 10, 2011 CONTACT: THE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MUSEUM (830) 444-0523 Email BURGLARS NAB RARE FAIRBANKS FILMS, PHOTOS, ARTIFACTS IN HOLIDAY HEIST Items dating back to the early 1900s and valued at more than $10,000 (USD) were stolen from the museum’s collections during a late night burglary over the New Year’s holiday. Original [...]
Museum Consults on New History Channel Documentary
Posted in Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, libraries and museums, Mary Pickford, nonprofit arts organizations, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, Uncategorized, tagged Allan Dwan, classic films, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., film history, movie censorship, profanity in movies, silent movies, The History Channel, Victor Fleming on October 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Douglas Fairbanks Museum recently provided research materials to the History Channel for an upcoming documentary about the use of language in film. Vintage news articles from the museum’s newspaper and magazine archives were requested by the network specifically pertaining to the 1916 Douglas Fairbanks comedy, The Habit of Happiness – reportedly the first [...]
Fairbanks Productions Carries On Family Film Tradition
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged dominick Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Fairbanks Productions, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Zorro on October 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
LONDON — A £75 million ($120 million) movie based on Baroness Orczy’s classic “The Scarlet Pimpernel” is front and center of seriously ambitious production plans for Fairbanks Productions, the U.K.’s newest and big-talking filmmaking banner on the block. Dominick Fairbanks, the great grandson and grandson of Hollywood legends Douglas Fairbanks and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., plans [...]
Former Fairbanks Home Sells for $6.8 Million
Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Hollywood History, Santa Monica Gold Coast, Santa Monica history on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The 1922 house has ocean views and is nestled in Santa Monica’s ritzy Gold Coast area. The former Santa Monica beach house of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. has sold for $6,862,000. In an area that became known as the Gold Coast after Hollywood stars and industry giants built homes there in [...]
Happy Birthday Doug!
Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, libraries and museums, Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged celebrity birthdays, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks birthday, famous Geminis, famous persons born May 23, May 23 birthdays on May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On May 23, 1883, a ray of Colorado sunshine was born in Denver. He grew up to become our swashbuckling hero of the silent silver screen and everyone’s favorite all-American boy! Happy Birthday, Mr. Fairbanks…and *thank you* for all the smiles you’ve given the world.:) Douglas Fairbanks as D’Artagnan from “The Three Musketeers” as featured [...]
Museum Moves Out of Moldy Building
Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, libraries and museums, mold, mold infestation, nonprofit arts funding, nonprofit arts organizations, sick building syndrome, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Festivals, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, mold health risks, mold in public buildings, mold infestation, mold remediation, toxic mold, toxic mold in homes on March 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAR. 7, 2010 CONTACT: THE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MUSEUM PHONE: (830) 444-0523 MUSEUM MOVES OUT OF MOLDY BUILDING Since the discovery of mold inside the Douglas Fairbanks Museum’s new building over a month ago, museum staffers have been busy packing and moving the collections to safe climate-controlled storage offsite. The move was completed [...]
Museum Building Infested With Mold
Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, libraries and museums, Mary Pickford, mold, mold infestation, nonprofit arts funding, nonprofit arts organizations, sick building syndrome, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Festivals, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged classic movie news, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Film Museums, mold, sick building syndrome, silent film news on March 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAR. 1, 2010 CONTACT: THE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MUSEUM PHONE: (830) 444-0523 MUSEUM’S NEW BUILDING INFESTED WITH MOLD On January 1, the Douglas Fairbanks Museum relocated to Gonzales, Texas, after nearly four years of occupying temporary office and exhibit spaces during their search for a new permanent location. The museum moved into an 1890s vintage [...]
Planned Museum Faces New Problems
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Film Museums, Gonzales Texas, home mold infestations, mold remediation, Texas History, Texas Museums, toxic mold on February 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Planned museum faces new problems The Gonzales Inquirer February 16, 2010 For Keri Leigh and Greg Jackson, moving to Gonzales seemed to be the answer to their life-long dream of permanently locating a very unique museum. The two indeed moved to Gonzales just a few short weeks ago to open the Douglas Fairbanks Museum, [...]
Museum Postpones Mar. 1 Grand Re-Opening
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Festivals, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, Gonzales, historic home preservation, historic home renovation, mold remediation, Silent Film, Texas, Texas Museums, The Douglas Fairbanks Museum, toxic mold on February 15, 2010 | 7 Comments »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FEB. 15, 2010 CONTACT: THE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MUSEUM KERI LEIGH, CURATOR PHONE: 830-444-0523 EMAIL: DouglasFairbanksMuseum@gmail.com WEB: http://DouglasFairbanks.org DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MUSEUM RE-OPENING POSTPONED The Douglas Fairbanks Museum’s re-opening, originally scheduled for Monday, March 1, 2010 is being postponed due to the discovery of toxic [...]
Silent Screen Legend Has a New Home in Gonzales
Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Festivals, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, Gonzales Texas, Keri Leigh, Silent Film, silent movie, Texas film industry on January 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
SILENT SCREEN LEGEND HAS NEW HOME IN GONZALES The Gonzales Cannon January 22, 2010 The city of Gonzales is known for its history and museums. Now there is a new attraction to add to the list of tourist destinations. “I have been a silent movie fanatic since I was about five years old,” said Keri [...]
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