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[Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin seated on shoulders of Douglas Fairbanks] – Antique Print

[Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin seated on shoulders of Douglas Fairbanks], [ca. 1915] — historic photograph
[Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin seated on shoulders of Douglas Fairbanks], [ca. 1915]. Historic photograph from the Movies & Film collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin seated on shoulders of Douglas Fairbanks]

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Few pictures from the silent era capture the easy camaraderie of its biggest stars as plainly as this one, which shows Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford perched on the shoulders of Douglas Fairbanks. Circa 1915 was the years when all three were rising to enormous fame in American film, and Pickford and Fairbanks would later become the couple at the center of Hollywood's first royal-style celebrity. The print appears in Booton Herndon's book on Pickford and Fairbanks, which helps explain why it has been reproduced so often as a snapshot of the period's movie colony at play.

Created / published[ca. 1915]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1910-1920.Portrait photographs 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesCredit: George Eastman House; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Photo used in publication, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, by Booton Herndon, published by W.W. Norton(?)
SubjectsChaplin, Charlie,--1889-1977. Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979. Fairbanks, Douglas,--1883-1939. Actors--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,401 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178290

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