Dan Dailey

As the musical genre began to wane in the mid-1950s, he moved on to various comedic and dramatic roles, and television. Douglas Fairbanks' hand and foot prints are immortalized in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7020 Hollywood Boulevard. His performance in When My Baby Smiles at Me in 1948 garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He is entombed at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood. He served in the United States Army during World War II, then returned to more musicals. His widow, Sylvia, then commissioned an elaborate monument for him in another cemetery, with long rectangular reflecting pool, raised tomb, and classic Greek architecture, and he was removed from Forest Lawn. The people at MGM realized their mistake immediately, however, and began casting him in a series of musical films. His funeral service was held at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather Church at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, where he was placed in a crypt in the Great Mausoleum.

In 1940 he was signed by MGM to make movies and, although his past career had been in musicals, he was initially cast as a Nazi in The Mortal Storm. in Santa Monica. Born in New York City, he appeared in a minstrel show when very young, and appeared in vaudeville before his Broadway debut in 1937 in Babes in Arms. At fifty-six years of age, he died in his sleep of a heart attack at around 12:45 a.m. Daniel James Dailey Jr. (December 14, 1913 - October 16, 1978) was an American actor. He lived in retirement with Sylvia at 705 Ocean Front (now Pacific Coast Highway) in Santa Monica, California. On March 7, 1936, Fairbanks married his third and last wife, Sylvia Ashley.

He and Pickford separated in 1933 and were divorced in 1936. He was a founder of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences and produced its first Academy Awards program. His and Pickford's hand and foot prints were the second and third, after Norma Talmadge, to be placed in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. During the years of their marriage, Fairbanks and Pickford were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty," and they became famous for entertaining at their Beverly Hills estate, Pickfair.

Fairbanks and Mary Pickford married on March 18, 1920. He and Beth were divorced in 1920. Griffith formed United Artists in 1919. He, Pickford, Chaplin, and D.W.

While traveling with Charlie Chaplin in a war bonds drive, he met and fell in love with Mary Pickford. They moved to Hollywood in 1915. In 1907, Fairbanks married Anna Beth Sully, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist; they had one son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. He worked in a hardware store and as a clerk in a Wall Street office before appearing on the Broadway stage in 1902.

Doug attended Colorado School of Mines and Harvard University. Charles abandoned the family there when Doug was five years old and he and Robert were raised by their mother. In about 1881, Charles Ulman purchased several mining interests in the Rocky Mountains and relocated the family to Denver, where he re-established his law offices. She then divorced another man named Wilcox, who turned out to be an abusive brute, with the help of her lawyer, Ulman, who she later married.

Doug's mother, who was born in New York, had previously been married to a man named John Fairbanks and was left a widow. His father, Charles, who was born in Pennsylvania, was a prominent New York City attorney. His half-brother was John Fairbanks (born 1873); and his full brother was Robert Payne Ulman (March 13, 1882-February 22, 1948). He was born Douglas Elton Ulman in Denver, Colorado, the son of Hezekiah Charles Ulman (born September 1835) and Ella Adelaide Marsh (born 1850).

His last silent picture was The Iron Mask. He became noted for his swashbuckling roles in such movies as The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Black Pirate (1926). Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883–December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.