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Article: Douglas Fairbanks/Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
- Article from:
- The Journal of American Culture
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Douglas Fairbanks Jeffrey Vance, with Tony Maietta. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando Stefan Kanfer. New York: Knopf, 2008.
How exciting! I knew that a new biography of Douglas Fairbanks was about to see the light of day and eagerly expected its arrival, but to see it launched as the lead review of The New York Review of Books (February 26, 2009), a review written, no less, by Robert Gottlieb, former Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker, well, that was just pretty spectacular! The review was titled "The Silent Superstar," but- surprise!- it wasn't about Chaplin, but about Chaplin's ...