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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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 »
Silence Is Golden: Museum Pays Tribute to Fairbanks Sr.
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 Screenings, Silent Film Stars, silent movies, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, Gonzales Texas, Texas Museums, The Douglas Fairbanks Museum on January 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Silence is golden: New museum pays tribute to silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. The Gonzales Inquirer January 21, 2010 If you have never heard of the famed silent movie star Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., before, chances are you will be hearing about him more and more if you live [...]
Opinion: New Museum Is Positive Step For Gonzales County
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., film history, Gonzales Texas, Texas History, The Douglas Fairbanks Museum on January 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Our Opinion: New museum is positive step for Gonzales County The Gonzales Inquirer January 22, 2010 On the front page of today’s newspaper is a story about a new museum in Gonzales. It’s the Douglas Fairbanks Museum. Sure, some might just blow this off as another fly-by-night thing in Gonzales. They are completely wrong. Museum [...]
Museum To Re-Open in 2010
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 Stars, United Artists, tagged Austin Texas, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Film Museums, Gonzales Texas, San Antonio Texas, Silent Film Museums, Texas Cultural Attractions, Texas History, Texas Independence Trail, Texas Museums, Texas Tourism, The Alamo on December 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
GOOD NEWS! More than two years after the flood that totaled our old building, The Douglas Fairbanks Museum will re-open in 2010! Our long search for a suitable site to house and display our collections led us to look at relocating outside our original home of Austin, Texas, where we have been for more than [...]
Fairbanks Made Invaluable Contributions to Film Industry
Posted in Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Charles Chaplin Museum, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, libraries, Mary Pickford, museums, Pickfair, Silent Film, silent movies on October 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
THE MUSEUM’S FALL 2009 DONATION DRIVE RUNS THROUGH OCT. 31 WHY A MUSEUM FOR AN OLD SILENT FILM STAR, ANYWAY? Donation Drives for the Douglas Fairbanks Museum’s relocation effort have been considerably more difficult since the American economy went into a recession. Like all small nonprofits; libraries, museums and performing arts/cultural organizations, we’re faced with [...]
March 2009 Donation Drive Is Over, But We Still Need Your Help
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, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, economic woes for nonprofits, how the economic crisis affects cultural institutions, libraries, libraries in peril, museum funding, nonprofit donations declining on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT THIS YEAR As our annual March Donation Drive comes to a close, we want to remind you that it’s not too late to send in a contribution and show your appreciation for the efforts of our hardworking volunteers. This is the time of year when we ask Fairbanks fans and silent film enthusiasts around [...]
Douglas Fairbanks Documentary Pt. 9 – Final Days
Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged action adventure films, action films, Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Memorial, Errol Flynn, Gene Kelly, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood History, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, Johnny Depp, Lady Sylvia Ashley, Mel Gibson, Santa Monica history, swashbuckler, swashbuckling, Tyrone Power on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We now conclude our 2009 March Donation Drive and month-long Fairbanks online film festival with the final episode from “The Great Swashbuckler,” produced by Delta Entertainment with the assistance of the Douglas Fairbanks Museum. Pt. 9 explores the last days of Douglas Fairbanks: his constant jetsetting with new wife Lady Sylvia Ashley, his return to [...]
Douglas Fairbanks Documentary Pt. 8 – Divorce and Decline
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Alexander Korda, Bebe Daniels, Bing Crosby, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Don Juan, Douglas Fairbanks, Irving Berlin, Lady Sylvia Ashley, Mary Pickford on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Throughout the month of March, we’ll be featuring a 9-part online film festival on the life of Douglas Fairbanks as part of our Spring Donation Drive. Continuing with another episode from the 2005 documentary film, “The Great Swashbuckler,” produced by Delta Entertainment with the assistance of the Douglas Fairbanks Museum. Pt. 8 continues from Pt. [...]
Douglas Fairbanks Documentary Pt. 7 – The Talkies
Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, early sound films, Shakespeare in the movies, talkies, Taming of the Shrew, University of Southern California, USC Film School, William Shakespeare on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Throughout the month of March, we’ll be exploring the life of Douglas Fairbanks with a 9-part online film festival as part of our Spring Donation Drive. Continuing this week with another episode from the 2005 documentary film, “The Great Swashbuckler,” produced by Delta Entertainment with the assistance of the Douglas Fairbanks Museum. Pt. 7 continues [...]
Douglas Fairbanks Documentary Pt. 5 – Zorro, D’Artagnan & Robin Hood
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Alexandre' Dumas, D'Artagnan, Douglas Fairbanks, Robin Hood, The Three Musketeers, Zorro on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We continue our month-long March donation drive and online film festival focusing on the life of Douglas Fairbanks with another episode from the 2005 documentary film, “The Great Swashbuckler,” produced by Delta Entertainment with the assistance of the Douglas Fairbanks Museum. Pt. 5 explores Fairbanks’ transisition from comedic actor to action star. His reign as [...]
Douglas Fairbanks Documentary Pt. 2 – From Broadway to Hollywood
Posted in Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks video on March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We continue our month-long online film festival and Spring 2009 Donation Drive with another episode of the 2005 documentary film, “The Great Swashbuckler,” produced by Delta Entertainment with the assistance of the Douglas Fairbanks Museum. Pt. 2 covers the time period from Fairbanks’ reign as a leading actor of the Broadway stage to his earliest work in [...]
March 2009 Donation Drive Features Online Fairbanks Film Festival
Posted in 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, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, economic woes for nonprofits, Hollywood History, libraries in peril, museum spring donation drive, museums in peril, nonprofit donations declining, philanthropy, support film preservation, troubled economy on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT THIS YEAR With the economy as it is, small museums like ours need your help now more than ever. Nonprofits, educational institutions, libraries and museums across America are seeing financial donations plummet to record lows, and many of us are being forced to cut back on programs and staff, or face permanent closure. The [...]
Douglas Fairbanks: The Silent Superstar
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 Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks biography, Douglas Fairbanks books, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
*The latest issue of the New York Review of Books includes a wonderful article on Douglas Fairbanks, probably the best biographical feature about him we’ve seen in years. We wanted to share it with you: Volume 56, Number 3 · February 26, 2009 The Silent Superstar By Robert Gottlieb New York Review of Books Douglas Fairbanks by [...]
“Douglas Fairbanks: In His Own Words” – Recommended by “Forget the Talkies!” Website
Posted in Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, 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, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks biography, Douglas Fairbanks books, Douglas Fairbanks documentary, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
* We’d like to thank the folks over at Forget the Talkies! for recommending Douglas Fairbanks: In His Own Words – a book recently published by the Douglas Fairbanks Museum, on their site. In a review of Jeffrey Vance’s new Fairbanks biography, the reviewer recommends picking up a copy of our book instead, thanks to [...]
New Fairbanks “King of Hollywood” Exhibit Opens
Posted in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, United Artists, tagged Academy Awards, Academyof Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, AMPAS, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Hollywood History, Hollywood history exhibits, Hollywood Memorabilia, Oscars, silent cinema, Silent Film on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AMPAS PAYS TRIBUTE TO FOUNDING FATHER FAIRBANKS The Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences announced on January 15th, 2009 the premiere of its new exhibit dedicated to movie idol Douglas Fairbanks. Fairbanks lived a multitalented, multifaceted life. His career as a silent film star who made the transition successfully to talkies is only one aspect [...]
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