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Physical Description:print ix, 581 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher:Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2016]
Content descriptions
General Note:
"An A Cappella Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-563) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The father of the man -- The heroine's likable younger brother -- Stage stardom -- Triangle (as in Company) -- Mary and Charlie -- Citizen Doug -- United -- Love and marriage -- "Having made sure I was wrong, I went ahead" -- Prince of thieves -- The fairy tale -- Buckling down -- Death -- ... And taxes -- Mischief and music -- Around the world in eighty minutes -- Castaway -- "Felt terribly blue ... although I was laughing" -- A living death.
Summary, etc.:
"The first truly definitive biography of Douglas Fairbanks, the greatest leading man of the silent film era"--
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