BONUS: Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
American Hauntings Podcast
Cody Beck and Troy Taylor
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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On this bonus episode, we discuss two Hollywood elites- Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
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| 0:14.3 | Ghosts are my business and that's especially true at Halloween even though I like most of you. I'm just as fascinated with haunting's The Supernatural, True Crime, and Horror all year round. |
| 0:19.0 | But there's something special about the Halloween season. |
| 0:22.0 | When the days start getting shorter, the nights longer, |
| 0:24.0 | the air just a little chillier in the veil between the two worlds |
| 0:28.0 | starts to get a little thinner. |
| 0:30.0 | This year to celebrate what may be the scariest Halloween we've ever seen and not because of ghosts, |
| 0:35.5 | we're offering a number of bonus episodes for the American Haunting's podcast that just didn't quite fit into the regular haunted Hollywood season. |
| 0:44.0 | In this episode, I wanted to introduce you to two of the characters who have been frequently |
| 0:47.9 | mentioned already this season and give them a short episode all their own. Their names are Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. |
| 0:55.6 | And this will not only serve as a better introduction to these two Hollywood pioneers, |
| 0:59.6 | but will also take a look at the ghost stories connected to their legendary home known as Pickfair. |
| 1:06.0 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:10.0 | Douglas Fairbanks, the man who would bring movie adventure to countless numbers of fans during the early days of Hollywood, was born Douglas Elton Ullman in Denver, Colorado in 1883. |
| 1:21.0 | He began acting in amateur theater productions when he was a teenager and then moved to New York in 1900 where he began acting on Broadway. |
| 1:28.0 | He had performed in 18 shows by the summer of 1915 when he moved to Hollywood with his wife and their son |
| 1:34.1 | Douglas Jr. who would later become a star in his own right. Once in |
| 1:39.2 | Southern California, Douglas began working with director D.W. Griffith at Fine Arts Film Company |
| 1:44.8 | before moving over to Paramount. Within three years he had a new name, |
| 1:49.0 | Douglas Fairbanks, and a new career is the most popular male star in the movies. |
| 1:54.0 | By that time he had also met and started an affair with America's sweetheart, Mary Pickford. |
| 2:00.0 | Mary whose real name was Gladys Smith was born in Toronto in 1892. |
| 2:05.0 | She made her first stage appearance at the age of six and show business became her life. |
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