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    Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

    American actor and United States naval officer

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  1. May 9, 2024 · Crawford was married to the actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (1929–33), Franchot Tone (1935–39), and Phillip Terry (1942–46) and to Alfred Steele (1955–59), chairman of the Pepsi-Cola Company. After his death in 1959 she became a director of the company and in that role hired her friend Dorothy Arzner to film several Pepsi commercials.

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  2. May 10, 2024 · An actor himself, he was the son of the famed Douglas Fairbanks, who was a founding member of United Artists and was also a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy. Crawford and Fairbanks Jr ...

  3. May 6, 2024 · Off-screen, Crawford’s life was a tapestry woven with threads of intrigue and drama. Her marriages to Hollywood luminaries like Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Franchot Tone, and others added an air of mystique to her persona.

  4. In 1929, Crawford married actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr, her first husband. It ended in 1934 and she never felt good enough for the Fairbanks family. Her second marriage was in 1925 to Franchot Tone, another actor. They divorced almost four years later. Crawford’s third marriage was in 1942 to Phillip Terry.

  5. 6 days ago · Unlike Crawford’s husband at the time, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Gable hailed from modest origins and shared a sense of unease and inadequacy amidst the glitz of Hollywood. This shared background likely fueled their potent onscreen rapport, prompting MGM to replace Crawford’s original co-star with Gable in subsequent projects, as reported by ...

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  7. May 6, 2024 · Joan Crawford was an icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, beloved until her death in 1977. But her daughter Christine's tell-all memoir of shocking child abuse, Mommie Dearest, threw the doors open on ...