His Picture in the Papers
“HE WRECKED AN AUTO! WAS THROWN OFF A TRAIN! PUT OUT A CHAMPION MIDDLEWEIGHT AND FOUGHT A LOSING FIGHT WITH TWO HUSKY POLICEMEN”
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Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established Fairbanks as the American ideal of pop, vim, and vigor. Furthermore, the film brought him together with the two collaborators who were to play a profound role in the evolution of his screen persona: writer Anita Loos and her future husband, director John Emerson. The theme was, according to Emerson and Loos, "the great American love of publicity."
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12 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Terry Mcgovern
as Terry McGovern - Referee
Nick Thompson
as Ticket Agent
Homer Hunt
as Melville
Douglas Fairbanks
as Pete Prindle
Clarence Handyside
as Proteus Prindle
Rene Boucicault
as Pansy Prindle
Jean Temple
as Pearl Prindle
Charles Butler
as Cassius Cadwalader
Loretta Blake
as Christine Cadwalader
Helena Rupport
as Olga
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