Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Beverly Hills building erected by Warner studios founder sold

2013-02-21 05:20:00

An 85-year-old Beverly Hills building erected in the Golden Age of Hollywood by movie mogul Jack Warner has been sold for $11.75 million to a local investor. The two-story structure that curves along Little Santa Monica Boulevard downtown at North...

Tributes to Mary Pickford, Michel Legrand among week's highlights

2013-02-07 08:00:00

It's a big weekend for fans of legendary screen star Mary Pickford and Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand ("Summer of '42"). Christine Schmidt, editor of "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies," �will be talking about the new book and singing copies...

Movie books go between the covers with Hollywood's elite

2012-12-27 00:00:00

Are you a film buff who received a holiday gift certificate for books? Not to worry. Here's a post-Christmas guide to three books about legendary cinema stars, and a fourth about some of Hollywood's bit players. "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies":...

Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood

2012-06-08 16:32:00

First published on Dec. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op...

King Gillette Ranch in Malibu

2012-09-22 00:00:00

-------------------- UPDATE: There have been developments at the King Gillette Ranch since our last visit. The park now offers a new interagency visitor center and two hours of free parking, in addition to its $7 paid parking lot. --------------------...

Movies: Dapper gents rule in 'J. Edgar,' 'The Artist' and other films

2011-12-18 00:00:00

Clothes and carefully cultivated facial hair are helping to make the man — and the movie — in a big way at the multiplex this season. Consider the tuxedo-wearing, thinly mustachioed men of 1920s' Hollywood in "The Artist"; the dapper denizens...

Movies: The '20s roaring again

2011-12-18 00:00:00

Cue the flappers, the fringe, the beads and the bobs. The Roaring '20s are back in fashion — on the runways and on-screen. It started in September at the spring 2012 fashion shows, with Ralph Lauren's "Great Gatsby" gowns, Tory Burch's...

'The Artist' is big winner at Academy Awards

2012-02-27 00:01:00

The movie of the fewest words spoke the loudest at the Oscars this year. On an evening suffused with nostalgia, "The Artist," a nearly wordless, black-and-white romance celebrating Hollywood's formative era, won five Academy Awards, including best...

Wealthy home buyers demand bathrooms; lots of bathrooms

2012-03-02 18:34:00

Here's another way the rich are different: They have more bathrooms. Real estate brokers who cater to the moneyed say their clients typically want homes that have at least two bathrooms for every bedroom. And with spacious tubs, floor lamps, dressing...

Around Town: 'Paper Moon' shines on downtown festival

2012-05-24 07:26:43

Around Town: 'Mean Streets' pays tribute to Fellini film

2012-05-17 16:38:15

Swashbuckling good films from '30s, '40s: Kenneth Turan's DVD pick

2012-04-26 16:38:19

Warner Archive freshens up the 1930 original 'The Dawn Patrol' starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (pictured) The 1938 version of the World War I drama "The Dawn Patrol" starring Errol Flynn has overshadowed the 1930 original.

2013-02-11 01:52:00

Actor Douglas Fairbanks in Chicago, February 6, 1933. Married to Mary Pickford, the couple was considered Hollywood royalty. Fairbanks hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929.

2013-02-08 12:55:36

A lawn party in 1935 at Pickfair, the home of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. The Beverly Hills home was demolished in 1990.

2012-01-11 16:25:05