Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929. With his marriage to Mary Pickford in 1920, the couple became Hollywood royalty with Fairbanks constantly referred to as “The King of Hollywood”. Here he is being a badass motherfucker. The more you know.
I want to go back in time and have lunch at Pickfair. Sad that it’s not even standing anymore :( UGH preserve your shit, LA.
did you ever read Katharine Hepburns autobiography where she talked about being invited to lunch at Pickfair early on in her career and she casually made some disparaging remark about something (forgot exactly what it was) and she didn’t realize she said it to Mary Pickford until much later and was never invited there ever again? lol
