Douglas Fairbanks Jr

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Portrait is a mixed media painting of traditional oils and digital work followed by a great deal of post process work as this... more

by Georgiana Romanovna

Title

Douglas Fairbanks Jr

Artist

Georgiana Romanovna

Medium

Mixed Media - Traditional And Digital Painting

Description

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Portrait is a mixed media painting of traditional oils and digital work followed by a great deal of post process work as this guy has a kind of too soft type of face for the roles he ended up playing, and so I wanted to mess him up a little to represent the character as I see him.
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Douglas Fairbanks' father was one of cinema's first icons, noted for such swashbuckling adventure films as The Mark of Zorro, Robin Hood and The Thief of Bagdad. Largely on the basis of his father's name, Fairbanks, Jr. was given a contract with Paramount Pictures at age 14. After making some undistinguished films, he took to the stage, where he impressed his father, his stepmother Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin, who encouraged him to continue with acting.
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He began his career during the silent film era. He initially played mainly supporting roles in a range of films featuring many of the leading female players of the day: Belle Bennett in Stella Dallas (1925), Esther Ralston in An American Venus (1926) and Pauline Starke in Women Love Diamonds (1927). In the last years of the silent period, he was upped to star billing opposite Loretta Young in several pre-Code films and Joan Crawford in Our Modern Maidens (1929). He supported John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in Woman of Affairs (1929). Progressing to sound, he played opposite Katharine Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role in the film Morning Glory (1933).
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December 30th, 2012