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I just picked up one of these yesterday. Does anyone know if Doug wrote them himself or if they were ghosted?

So much is implied in Cari Beauchamp's biography of Frances Marion, WITHOUT LYING DOWN. From Page 74, quoting Margeret Case Harriman:

"Douglas Fairbanks was a man who never read anything...."

So for those who knew Doug, in was amusing when a monthly column appeared under his byline in Photoplay in 1917, laced with "self-deprecating humor and advocating "clean living." Then he published a book entitled Laugh and Live....


I think the language makes the ghosting clear.

Bob

Any theories on who did the ghosting?

I just consulted Douglas Fairbanks expert Tracey Goessel and she told me the ghostwriter is Kenneth Davenport.

thanks

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A Gentleman from Mississippi by Frederick R. Toombs
First Edition. Original blue illustrated cloth and illustrated dustjacket. Rare novelization of this extremely popular play by Thomas A. Wise and Harrison Rhodes and produced by William Brady and Joseph Grismer, with 407 performances at the Bijou Theatre on Broadway. Illustrated with eight photographic stills from the theatrical production which feature a very young Douglas Fairbanks who played Bud Haines. This is likely only the second book to feature Fairbanks' image, after a theatre edition of George Broadhurst's The Man of the Hour which was novelized by Albert Payson Terhune under the title, The New Mayor in 1907 and published by Ogilvie. A jacket for either of these first editions is unseen other than this present copy. The play and novel explore the current state of corruption in Washington politics, an honest southern senator beset by political bosses who plan to use him for their own gain. Basis for the 1914 black and white silent film directed by Harrison Garfield Rhodes and starring Thomas A. Wise, Chester Barnett and Evelyn Brent. Near Fine bright copy in Very Good dustjacket with some loss at top spine area. Bookseller Inventory # 21471