MUSEUM FACES FUNDING OBSTACLES TO RELOCATION As our fall Donation Drive kicks off October 5th, we wanted to update you on the current challenges we face and what the museum’s goals are for the coming year. Since our building suffered extensive flood damage last year, we were forced to close our doors and move the [...]
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Museum Seeks a New Location
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, tagged charitable giving, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, economic woes for nonprofits, how the economic crisis affects cultural institutions, libraries closing, museum funding, museum grants, nonprofits in crisis, troubled economy on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A Modern Musketeer” DVD Review
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, tagged 1910s, action adventure films, D'Artagnan, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, silent comedians, silent comedy, Silent Film, silent movies, silent stars, The Three Musketeers, Victorian films on October 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
* We thought this review was too clever and wanted to share it with all of you! THE SUNDAY INTERTITLE A MODERN MUSKETEER, directed by the redoubtable Allan Dwan and starring the insuperable Douglas Fairbanks, is the first Fairbanks I’ve seen that really delivers on the stuntwork with the kind of excess and largesse I’ve [...]
Happy Birthday, Doug!
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged D'Artagnan, Douglas Fairbanks birthday, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, famous birthdays May 23, Hollywood History, May 23 in history, The Three Musketeers on May 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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.:)
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. 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 [...]
Museum Launches YouTube Channel
Posted in Classic Movies, D.W Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Festivals, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, United Artists, tagged Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Douglas Fairbanks Museum is pleased to announce the launch of our new YouTube Channel at: http://www.youtube.com/FairbanksMuseum Here you can take a virtual tour of the museum’s archives, hosted by our curator Keri Leigh, check out rare clips of Douglas Fairbanks in action, photographs, poster art and other materials from our collection. In the days [...]
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 [...]
Kids Clothing Line Added To Museum Gift Shop
Posted in Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged clothing for toddlers, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Gifts for Kids, Hollywood Memorabilia, Kids Clothing, Non-Profit Stores, Teddy Bears, Unique Children's Clothing on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BECAUSE EVERY KID LOVES “DOUG” We’ve just introduced a new line of clothing for toddlers and bigger kids, too. Visit the Douglas Fairbanks Museum’s online store to find more unique gifts for every Fairbanks fan in your family (to give your child a proper taste for adventure, we think you should start `em on Doug’s [...]
Want to Direct? We Now Offer Custom Camcorders in our Online Store
Posted in Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged Custom Camcorders, Digital Camcorders, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Flip Mini Camcorder, Flip Mini HD Camcorder, Mini Camcorders, World's Smallest HD Camcorder on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
INSPIRED BY FAIRBANKS? Got dreams of being a great film director like Douglas Fairbanks? Make your own silent films (or if you’re more of a 21st-century-type person, that’s ok, you can make `em with sound, too!) on these custom mini camcorders, available now in our online gift shop. Super-lightweight and portable, these Mino Camcorders are available [...]
“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 in our Gift Shop: the Douglas Fairbanks All-American Teddy Bear
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged American Teddy Bears, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, His Majesty the American, Hollywood Memorabilia, President Theodore Roosevelt, Teddy Bears, Teddy Roosevelt, Victorian America on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HIS MAJESTY, THE AMERICAN Isn’t he a cutie? This huggable Teddy Bear is one of many new additions to the Douglas Fairbanks Museum’s online gift shop, and he’s just waiting for you to take him home! Give him to someone you love on Valentine’s day! Teddy Bear’s first achieved national popularity in the early 1900s, [...]
Fairbanks/Pickford Rarity to Screen on Valentine’s Day
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Festivals, Silent Film Screenings, Silent Film Stars, tagged Alice Guy Blanche, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Igor Ilinsky, Mary Pickford, Mary Pickford Foundation, Russian cinema, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Sergei Komarov on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A KISS FROM MARY PICKFORD” ON VALENTINE’S DAY Description Saturday, February 14, 2009 2:40pm – A KISS FROM MARY PICKFORD (1927) Co-Presented by The Mary Pickford Foundation and The San Francisco Film SocietyMovie stardom gets a gleeful once-over in this madcap slapstick farce from Russia. Goga is a brash young ticket-taker smitten by aspiring actress [...]
Douglas Fairbanks Posters, Photo Prints Available Now in Museum Gift Shop
Posted in Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, Mary Pickford, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, United Artists, tagged Charlie Chaplin photos, Classic Movie Posters, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Photos, Douglas Fairbanks posters, Hollywood Memorabilia, Mary Pickford photos, Movie Posters, Movie Still Photographs, MuseumQuality Photographic Prints, Silent Film Star Photos on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Douglas Fairbanks “Zorro” Large 28×42 Banner Print CAN’T FIND THESE ANYWHERE ELSE The Douglas Fairbanks Museum is pleased to announce the addition of unique Douglas Fairbanks posters and photographic prints to our online gift shop. Carefully selected from our archives, these classic images are the ones most often requested by Fairbanks fans. Until now, we were only [...]
Give Fido Some “Puppy Love” this Valentine’s Day With Unique Gifts for Your Pet
Posted in Classic Movies, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Film Museums, History Museums, silent cinema, Silent Film, Silent Film Stars, Uncategorized, United Artists, tagged doggie t-shirts, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Museum, museum gift shop online, pet bowls, pet gifts, pet supplies, Teddy Bears, The Mark of Zorro, unique pet gifts, Zorro on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
DOES YOUR DOG LOVE DOUG, TOO? Everybody knows Douglas Fairbanks loved his dogs (all of `em!). If you love your pooch, show him or her some “puppy love” this Valentine’s with some of the new, unique gifts for pets in the Douglas Fairbanks museum’s online store. We’re open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, [...]
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