Douglas Fairbanks

Psychological profiling has had a long history within the criminal justice field including the FBI. Many believe that this type of profiling has no usefulness in solving crimes, however the more that is learned about how a criminal thinks the better equipped to solve crimes sooner and prevent new crimes. Psychological profiling can be used to limit the amount of suspects for a given crime. While a psychological profile will help to solve a crime, having a solid crime scene examination is a…

How to get the best military fares and perks when flying Like many other businesses, airlines often provide military discounts and other perks for active duty military, retired military members and their dependents. However, you will not get these automatically, so it is important to do your research and know how to access these benefits. Remember: Every airline has different rules and options. With a percentage discount and reduced or zero fees, the savings can really add up. These discounts…

Everyday approximately two million people fly in the United States. This huge industry helps drive $1.5 trillion dollars annually and supplies the United States with more than 11 million jobs (Partnering in Safety & Security). Even with this huge amount of revenue for the industry, many airlines struggle with profitability. There are multiple reasons that airlines struggle with profitability. According to the Harvard Business Review, the biggest reasons that airlines struggle with profitability…

on pedestals. Two such film actors were a much admired couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. When they got married and went to London, England for their honeymoon on June 21, 1920 they were greeted by lots of admiring fans. Since 1919 Pickford and Fairbanks had been business partners who got together with Charlie Chaplin and director D.W. Griffith to set up United Artists. After the couple got married Fairbanks gave Pickford a 22 room estate as a wedding present which included the first…

London, and the designs were alle received with true admiration. But this was just the beginning, and Menzies’ next project would be the successful one that would kickstart his career and make him the most influential art director of Hollywood. 
Douglas Fairbanks, known for his energetic, high-concept period pieces, which were recognized by size and splendor, and that were the most expensive to make for their time, was about to create the film The Thief of Bagdad. He used to immerse himself in…

My interview was with a woman named Miss Norma. She was born during WWI (1917) and will be 100 years old in February. It was interesting how I met, I was a cashier at Walmart when she came through my line. She saw my name tag and asked if I had ever been to the Shekinah festival in Amish country. I told her I had never been and that I wasn’t from Columbus. She then asked where I was from and when I told her New Albany Indiana luck might have it, she was born and raised in my home town and from…

Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American entertainer. He was best known for his national radio and television acts between 1937 and 1971, and as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show. Skelton, who has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in radio and television, also appeared in vaudeville, films, nightclubs, and casinos, all while he pursued an entirely separate career as an artist. Skelton began developing his comedic and…

The 1920’s was a decade of prosperity, a period of innovations in America. World War I, which involved Britain, France, Italy, and the United Stated of America fighting Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey, ended on November 11, 1918, when a truce was signed at Versailles in France. After the war, the United States was forced to deal with problems such as racial tension, struggling farms, and labor unrest. The country also struggled with the spread of communism. After Russia’s revolution in…

Ray Douglas Bradbury, was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920 and died on June 5, 2012 in Los Angles, California. He was the third son of father Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and mother Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury. They gave him the middle name "Douglas," after the actor, Douglas Fairbanks. He never became a swashbuckling actor but Mr. Bradbury's greatest adventures would take place behind the keys of a typewriter. Today, as an author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, lecturer, poet…

“The Hollywood Style” is the first episode of the 1995 American TV show called American Cinema with the host John Lithgow. This episode talks about what makes a Hollywood movie a Hollywood movie through the interviews of filmmakers and relative video clips. This film describes the methods that American production used. Thus, “the Hollywood Style” is an important episode among the series which tells the audience the main characteristics of Hollywood movies and how they succeed. “The Studio…