Richard Chamberlin, RIP -- April 6, 2025

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Richard Chamberlin died in late March. I never watched Doctor Kildare, but I read a reprint of the Mad Magazine version. I never saw Shogun or The Thornbirds. I loved Richard Lester's Three Musketeer movies, where he played Aramis.

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Peter Weir's The Last Wave was the first Australian New Wave (sorry) film that my fiancée attended. We saw it at the Bridge Theater. It made a deep impression on both of us.

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He seems to have had a propensity for the works of Alexandre Dumas, père.

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford -- Two Novels -- November 20, 2021

Omaha Bee, 06-November-1921

Douglas Fairbanks' adaption of Alexandre Dumas père's Three Musketeers was doing booming business. I like the saluting swordsmen at the bottom and the oval frame at the top, with Doug's picture.

Motion Picture News, 12-November-1921

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, husband and wife, were the main pillars of United Artists. 

Motion Picture News, 26-November-1921

Mary Pickford played two roles in this adaption of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. She was Cedric Errol, who became Little Lord Fauntleroy, and Cedric's mother, Dearest. Mary Pickford was particularly proud of a double exposure scene, where she as Cedric's mother gave herself as Cedric a hug.

Motion Picture News, 19-November-1921

Mary Pickford's ne'er-do-well brother Jack co-directed with Alfred E Green.

Based on That Immortal Novel by Alexandre Dumas -- September 22, 2021

Exhibitors Herald, 03-September-1921

100 years ago this month, in September, 1921, Douglas Fairbanks' second costume film, The Three Musketeers, had its premiere. It was a hit.

Moving Picture World, 03-September-1921

Moving Picture World, 24-September-1921

Doug shared a two page United Artists ad with his wife Mary Pickford, who was appearing in an adaption of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Moving Picture World, 10-September-1921

The only problem facing Fairbanks was a lawsuit by the remains of the Triangle Company. Thomas Ince had produced a version of The Three Musketeers in 1915. It was originally distributed under the title D'Artagnan. Triangle claimed that each scene of their version had been copyrighted, and that the Fairbanks film violated many of the copyrights.

Moving Picture World, 10-September-1921

And of course someone had to rerelease the 1915 film to compete with the Fairbanks film.