Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Thomas Edison, and Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks (center) & director Allan Dwan (right) on the set of Robin Hood (1922). Giant megaphones were used to direct large crowds of extras.
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Happy Birthday, Douglas Fairbanks.
May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939
“Sweet Douglas, he was my greatest audience.”
(Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography)
I have always liked this picture, it looks like they may be between scenes of “A Dog’s Life”, Charlie seems to be deep in thought and Edna is sitting their patiently knitting.
There is one man, however, whose home is a sanctuary in the truest sense of the word, for Charlie Chaplin rightly argues that the man whose work places him continually in the public eye can only preserve his sanity and a wholesome outlook on life by reserving for himself a refuge to which he can retire, and, for a space, be – just himself.
