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Article: Early years of Douglas Fairbanks.(ARTS & CULTURE)(FROM THE VAULTS)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 12, 2009
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Byline: Gary Arnold, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The DVD set Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer is designed to showcase the early phase of one of the pre-eminent starring careers of the silent movie period. While doing that with a preponderance of titles, representing about a third of the Fairbanks output between 1916 and 1920, the collection also illustrates, perhaps without intending to, why it ultimately made more sense for this charismatic performer to shift genres at the turn of the decade.
Commencing with the final movie in the set, The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks became Hollywood's first great swashbuckling attraction, a happily athletic ...