Film Homage Douglas Fairbanks The Mark Of Zorro 1920 The Leader Theater Washington D.c. 1920-2010 #1 Wood Print

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The dashing Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) was the silver screen's first swashbuckler, years before Errol Flynn (1909-1959). Extremely athletic (despite a weak heart), he performed all his own stunts, with a few rare exceptions.

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Always the optimist, his last words were "I never felt better in my life."

A 1940 remake, directed by Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987) and starring Tyrone Power (1914-1958), was released. Power lacked the athleticism of Fairbanks, but made up for it in good looks and charm.

High point of the film was a duel to the death between Power and arch villain Basil Rathbone (1892-1967). Rathbone was a world class fencer in real life and would have easily bested Power.

Ironically Power died 18 years later, collapsing in a duel scene with George Sanders, in King Vidor's final feature, "Solomon & Sheba" (1959).

I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...

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