Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks

Author: Ralph Hancock

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-02-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1493039938

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Few people have influenced Hollywood history than Douglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks family historian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was a force of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds from the Broadway stage to silent movies when feature-length film was just a few years old. His happy, healthy characters and acrobatic acting style brought a new energy to the medium. But it was through his extraordinary success as a producer that Fairbanks achieved the goal of all creative people: to run his own show. This he did by co-founding United Artists in 1919 with his soon-to-be wife Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith. As a producer, he showed visionary taste, collaborating with his directors and designers to enact gallant tales in spectacular settings. Whether he played a young man on the go or a swashbuckling hero in a fairy-tale land, Fairbanks—one of the thirty-six founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—put America’s hopes and dreams on film. This updated version of the original 1953 biography has been expanded by the Fairbanks family with archival materials as well as never-before-seen photographs from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library.

The Four Musketeers
The Four Musketeers

Author: K. L. Maund

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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The historical background of the real four musketeers, who witnessed the struggle for control over France in the 1640s

The Last Musketeer
The Last Musketeer

Author: Stuart Gibbs

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-09-27

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0062048406

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The first book in the thrilling time travel adventure trilogy from New York Times bestselling Charlie Thorne and Spy School author Stuart Gibbs. Before they were legends, they were friends. All for one and one for all! On a family trip to Paris, Greg Rich's parents disappear. They're not just missing from the city—they're missing from the century. So, Greg does what any other fourteen-year-old would do: He travels through time to rescue them. Greg soon finds out that his family history is tied to the legendary Three Musketeers. But when he meets them, they're his age, and they'll only live long enough to become true heroes if he can save them. To rescue his parents, Greg must assume the identity of a young Musketeer in training and unite Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—but a powerful enemy is doing everything possible to stop him. And don't miss Traitor's Chase and Double Cross, the next two books in Stuart Gibbs's thrilling Last Musketeer trilogy!

The Last of the Four Musketeers
The Last of the Four Musketeers

Author: Allen Joe

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781504342988

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In this book, Grandmaster Allen Joe tells an extraordinary personal story of his family, true love, triumph, heartbreaks, and his best friends. Here is the true story told with enormous honesty, keen insight, passion, and essence of the human life. Allen takes us inside his family in Oakland's Chinatown before World War II and shares his experience of war and meeting his best friend, Bruce Lee. When Bruce and Linda were married in 1964, they moved to Oakland and lived with James Lee, his wife, and two children. As you read the story of Allen's life, you will learn how Allen's long-time friendship with James led to a meeting with Bruce in Seattle. As a reader, you will enter Bruce Lee's world and get to know James, Bruce, Allen, and George, the Four Musketeers. Linda, Bruce Lee's widow, says, "I know Allen's story will help people better understand Bruce Lee's story-the story of achieving excellence against all odds. That is what this book is about." "There are certain friends of my father I have gotten to know throughout my life that hold their friendship with my father in such a place of pure love. Their radiance blesses me every time I see them. Uncle Allen is one such friend. Thank you, Allen, for being such a bright light in my life." - Shannon Lee, Bruce Lee's daughter and chairman of the Bruce Lee Foundation "Allen Joe's story reveals how, when faced with long odds of success, persistently cultivating physical strength and mental strength enables us to overcome enormous odds. The bonds of friendship between Allen Joe and Bruce Lee offer every reader a powerful philosophy of living, innovating, and thriving." - Sarah Miller Caldicott, great-grandniece of Thomas Edison; author of Midnight Lunch and Innovate Like Edison

Four of the Three Musketeers
Four of the Three Musketeers

Author: ROBERT S. BADER

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9780810145757

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Four of the Three Musketeers is the definitive history of the Marx Brothers' hardscrabble early years honing their act in front of live audiences on the vaudeville circuit.

The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Publisher:

Published: 1878

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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One of the preeminent novels by French writer Alexandre Dumas, this swashbuckling tale follows a group of honorable 17th-century swordsmen who must contend with powerful adversaries scheming against the queen. Determined to join the royal guard, young d'Artagnan leaves his country home and travels to Paris, where he unintentionally angers Aramis, Athos, and Porthos, the esteemed Three Musketeers. Eventually winning the trust and admiration of the formidable trio of fighters, d'Artagnan joins them in their quest to thwart the plans of the sinister Cardinal Richelieu.

The Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask

Author: Roger MacDonald

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Oxford historian Roger Macdonald has spent five years unravelling fact from fiction to uncover the true story of the Musketeers and their connection with the Man in the Iron Mask. It is a reality more extraordinary than any tale Dumas could devise. Honour and heroism, betrayal and intrigue, are set amidst the lust, jealousy and deadly poisons that made the Sun King's court a world of frenzied paranoia. The Musketeers ride again across the pages of real history in this superbly researched account, and in his exciting denouement Macdonald at last reveals the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask.

DO: The Fourth Musketeer of Lust, Love, and Life
DO: The Fourth Musketeer of Lust, Love, and Life

Author: Mallikarjun B. Mulimani

Publisher: Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd

Published:

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 9356101329

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Once upon a time, in a faraway land, where kingdoms are abound with mystical elements, there lived a prince who was about to begin the journey of his lifetime—a journey in search of the simple Truth. Young Do, the son of a brave soldier-turned-king, embarks in search of IP, the magical Inverse Prism which would make diverse ones one. Having been aimless for much of life, battling addiction and struggling with his forgetful nature, he believes that discovering IP will not just solve his problems, but also bring into existence an ‘ideal society’. Aided by his best friends, The Three Musketeers, as well as the love of his life, The Rainbow Woman, Do becomes the Fourth Musketeer in this ultimate journey, a journey he deems to be the purpose of his life. The more he sees people convincing themselves of the ‘untruths’, the more determined he becomes in his search. However, the cost of seeking simplicity seems to be complexity. Where will this path lead Do? From a prince to a musketeer, what more is in store for him? ‘DO’ is a philosophical fairytale trying to find the best through the worst and making the magical ideal the possible real.

My Uncle Martin's Big Heart
My Uncle Martin's Big Heart

Author: Angela Farris Watkins

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2020-12-22

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1647004470

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A moving portrait of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. from his niece My Uncle Martin’s Big Heart is a story about love: love between a young girl and her uncle, and all the love she sees her uncle share—with his family members, with his church congregation, and with all people. In this inspiring narrative about Martin Luther King Jr.—told by his niece—young readers will discover the story of the man behind the civil rights hero and activist, one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. As Angela Farris Watkins, PhD, introduces children to her uncle, she presents them with a rare glimpse into his life at home, including special family moments. What unfolds is a story of character and service to God, family, and humankind, and of how one man’s extraordinary love changed the history of the United States and the world.