Douglas Fairbanks Junior

Southland Times, Issue 22471, 6 November 1934, Page 5

Douglas Fairbanks Junior

PLANS FOR NEW COMPANY. Douglas Fairbanks Junior has plans for a new company to be called Douglas Fairbanks Junior Productions Ltd., for the production of plays and films. He wants to put on plays that will also be suitable for New York, but will only appear in them himself when, the right part occurs. Although Mr Fairbanks has no intention of becoming a British subject, he proposes to stay in England indefinitely. His film production plans, though not yet revealed, are said to be very ambitious.

A piquant bit of London cinema gossip of the moment is that Douglas Fairbanks Junior and Gertrude Lawrence, to appear soon on the West End stage in a play specially written for them by Clemence Dane, are to make a film for British International based on Murger’s famous Parisian story, “Scenes de la Vie de Boheme (“The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter”). Part of this Inspired the libretto for Puccini’s opera, “La Boheme.”

Indications that Douglas Fairbanks, junior, may never return to Hollywood, except as a possible visitor, were given further strength recently when the actor sent for his secretary, Louis Blembel, to go to London. Young Fairbanks already has disposed of most of his possessions in Hollywood, writes a correspondent. His home, now leased to Virginia Pine, is listed for sale, and he has sold almost all of his stocks and bonds and personal belongings, in addition to getting rid of his automobile. Paramount cabled him an offer for “Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” and Universal wanted him for "Great Expectations,” but both studios were turned down.