Introduction:​

• Cooke Alistaire, Douglas Fairbanks: The Making of a Screen Character, Museum of Modern Art New York City 2002, Chapters 1 & 2. Google Books

Vaudeville Beginnings:​

• Jeffery Vance, Douglas Fairbanks (Canada: University of California Press, 2008). pp. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 ,19 ,20 .

• “Douglas Fairbanks.” Encyclopædia Britannica, January 29, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-Fairbanks.​

• White, Portrait with Dark Hair and Blue-Gray Eyes. ca. 1902. Private Collection, Photograph

• Otto Sarony,  A Case in the.... ca. 1905. Private Collection, Photograph

•  John M. Snyder, As Ye Know, ca. 1905, Private Collection, Photograph

• White. A Gentleman from Mississippi by Wise and Harrison Rhodes. 1908. Private Collection, Photograph

Transition to Silent Film:​

• Jeffery Vance, Douglas Fairbanks (Canada: University of California Press, 2008). pp. 21, 22, 23, 24.

• “Douglas Fairbanks.” Encyclopædia Britannica, January 29, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-Fairbanks.

•  “The Lamb.” IMDB, n.d. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0005600/.

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Film Stardom and Cultural Impact:​

• Jeffery Vance, Douglas Fairbanks (Canada: University of California Press, 2008). pp. 25, 28, 29, 38, 39, 47, 62, 63, 71, 72, 135, 301.​

• IMDb. The Lamb, 1915, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0005600/mediaviewer/rm18811648/?ref_=tt_ph_1_1​

• Motography, "New Fairbanks Film." Motography, July 1917, 195. https://archive.org/details/motography18elec/page/194/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22Douglas+Fairbanks+Picture+Corporation%22 

• ​Mary Pickford Foundation. "Mary Pickford on The Road Selling Liberty Bonds." Mary Pickford Foundation, https://marypickford.org/caris-articles/mary-on-the-road-selling-liberty-bonds/

• ​Library of Congress. " D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks at the signing of the contract establishing United Artists Corporation in 1919." Britannica Money, https://www.britannica.com/money/United-Artists-Corporation

• Mary Pickford Foundation. "Los Angeles Times - Marry and Dough Married." Mary Pickford Foundation, https://marypickford.org/caris-articles/mary-and-doug-marry/

• ​Albert Parker, "The Black Pirate," moonflix, 1926.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjf85yun_QQ 

• ​John Emerson, "His Picture in the Papers," Allen Hilliard Sports, 1916. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqwIZwLI9AI​

Cultural Impact:​

• Jeffery Vance, Douglas Fairbanks (Canada: University of California Press, 2008). pp. 209.

• Peter Swirski, “Literature as History: The Lives and Deaths of Richard Milhous Slurrie and Walter Bodmor Nixon,” Journal of American Studies, 43, No. 3 (2009), https://www.jstor.org/stable/40648659

• R. Thomas Bobal, “'A Puppet, Even Though He Probably Doesn't Know So': Racial Identity and the Eisenhower Administration's Encounter with Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Arab Nationalist Movement,” The International History Review, 35, No. 5 (October 2013), https://www.jstor.org/stable/24701245 

• ​IMDb "The Black Pirate (1926)." Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/still-of-douglas-fairbanks-in-the-black-pirate--518195500845248673/

• Douglas Fairbanks: Awards (website), IMDb, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001196/awards/?ref_=nm_awd

• ​Dave Kehr, "Hailing a Passing Flying Carpet,"  The New York Times, February 22, 2013.  https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/movies/homevideo/new-dvds-the-thief-of-bagdad-and-chronicle-of-a-summer.htm​​

Artifacts:

• All artifacts were found using Lantern Archives, individual citations for each Artifact can be found on the Artifacts Page