Milewski & Short MARY PICKFORD COLLECTION: Random Mary Pickford with Douglas Fairbanks Photographs

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Seemingly hand-signed by the two of them. 1924.

Typewritten snipe attached on verso reads, “Watch your credit line. Photo by Kadel & Herbert N. Y. Mary says rumors that she will wed Doug are not true. The movie fans are now wondering whether Mary Pickford will marry Douglas Fairbanks, due to the fact that Mary just recently divorced Owen Moore. Photos shows two of the leading and highest salaried screen stars that may wed sometime?” The photo depicts Mary Pickford (in a How Could You Jean? (1918) costume) and Douglas Fairbanks during their 1918 Liberty Loan days, however with with a snipe like that, we can assume piece itself seems to be used around 1920.

Typewritten on verso, “Doug serenades Mary between sets of “Doug” on the outdoor court.” ca. 1920

Typewritten snipe attached on verso reads, “ One of the interesting facts in connection with “Sorrell and Son,” the popular English novel, which has been brought to the screen as a Herbert Brennon production for United Artists, is that the author, Warwick Deeping, had Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in mind when he wrote two of the characters into the story. Brenon, who is shown bidding goodbye to Mary and Doug at the United Artists studio in Hollywood on the day that the famous director left with his company for England to film exterior scenes in “Sorrell and Son,” revealed that Miss Pickford and Fairbanks were the inspiration for the “Ethel Frobisher” and “Duncan Scott” of Deeping’s best-selling novel. In Keeping’s story, “Ethel and Duncan” are world-famous motion picture stars spending their honeymoon at an English inn. When “Ethel” is seriously injured in a motorcar accident, the attention of the entire world is drawn to the “Pelican Inn,” where much of the action is Deeping’s story takes place. Brenon visited Deeping at the author’s home in Surrey before starting work on the United Artists picture." 1927.

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks dining. International Newsreel.

Typewritten snipe attached on verso reads, “Watch your credit line. Photo by Kadel & Herbert N. Y. Popular American film stars receiving big ovation on their visit to Berlin. Photo shows Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, upon their arrival in Berlin, where they received an enthusiastic welcome."