Someone once said about Mr. Fairbanks was - "The trouble with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is he never has anything bad to say about anyone". He was a very charming man.
If they ok only knew that we are in 2020 and they still have fans. A new generation of fans who were no where near born when they were alive. Specially Joan Crawford, man I love that woman.
Joan Crawford clawed her way to stardom but then visited the most extreme cruelty upon her two oldest children. Trauma begets trauma but her behavior was so unthinkably cruel. She was a terribly damaged person who never should have been a mother. #believesurvivors
@@ArsenicJulep stop reading mommy dearest and actually do some proper research on crawford and christina before throwing allegations at someone ...and what's wrong if she fought hard to be at the top of her game in Hollywood during a time women were discarded as soon as they got older?...she worked into her 60s and was a queen ......and as for ur " believe the survivors"...we should believe the actual survivors not someone who tried to sell lies in a book because she hated her mother and wasn't a successful actress like her mother.( And yes, i am saying this as someone who has suffered from tremendous mental and physical abuse from her own mother for years)
@@sukanyamukherjee1756 ~ Being successful in your job, whether it’s acting or selling copy machines, doesn’t mean you’re a kind person. As an adoptee myself and someone who lived for a while with a woman like Joan, I recognize many of the situations that Christina describes in such detail. I believe she loved her mother but hated her behavior. Many other people who knew Joan and spent time with her and her kids also witnessed her controlling, unreasonable behavior with her kids. Liz Smith, for one, as well as a raft of other people in and out of Hollywood. Abused kids don’t make up stories like this. They just don’t.
@@sukanyamukherjee1756 ~ What’s wrong is she used her children to get good publicity and treated them like employees, not people. Many contemporaries of Joan have talked about how painful it was to watch her be thoughtless and cruel to her children.
I met him briefly at about 1am - 2am in Paris , 1973/74. He handed me a presentation box, secured with silk bow, in which was contained a lady's hat. He only spoke a few words, but the charm was clearly evident, an easy manner.
I was working as a designer at KQED television in 1982 in San Francisco and was walking down a narrow hallway when I looked up and saw a distinguished Douglas Fairbanks Jr. walking towards me…I was in awe!! growing up with his movies!!
What a classy, sophisticated, soft spoken, kind man! A true star in my eyes. What a life! I thought he was very handsome and a good actor. I am an old movie buff. Every year when family, friends and employee's didn't know what to get me, I just said, "a book on old Hollywood."
As it turns out, Mary Pickford would not let him come over whenever he wanted to. He had to be invited. It sounds here like he doesn't want to say that Mary Pickford was a bich. No wonder Douglas left her for lady Ashley
Oh, Eric doesn't have his class or style. A few early actors such as Fairbanks, Grant, Niven, Hamilton had class, charm, charisma, that IT factor! They could walk into a room and heads would turn!
“Saying that an actor shouldn’t be President is the same as saying a Writer shouldn’t write personal letters- only novels.” That’s an incredibly well stated and profound analogy.
Everyone who ever knew Marion Davies says how wonderful she was. She was viewed as a very funny, entertaining and ratter sharp lady. That character in Kane isn’t her! If only her films had been made in the sound area (though there were some), she would be admired and remembered today.
@Jeepman89 Hearst was not a good man. If Davies should have made a career without Hearst she would have maybe be a great star, but Hearst was the reason she didn´t make it.
And Marion Davies was a friend of Louella Parsons and that's how Parsons kept her job with Hearst and Parsons exposed every bit of dirt , she could dig up through spies, on all the stars and blackmailed them get the dirt on others and yet not a word about the adulterous relationship between her employer and Davies, which would have destroyed all of them at that time, charming people .
I have several photos of Doug Jr. as a young man (extremely handsome), and his toothy smile never changed. Years of smoking were catching up to him at this point.
@@karlakor Excuse? What's wrong with Joan Crawford? She was the movie queen and it was her ex-wife. It's normal to talk about her. Do not see so much "Mommie Dearest".
@@karlakor That's usually one of the few subjects they ask Douglas Fairbanks, Jr about. It was nice to hear something else about his life for a change.
He was always a gentleman, and he refrained from saying bad things about her. At one point he said Crawford's personality issues were due to a terrible childhood. He was only 19 when they married (several years younger than her).
I've always been a fan of Cavett, but this was just painful. Such an amazing subject in Douglas Fairbanks, and he talks right over him, then asked such inane questions. Fairbanks just starts talking and off to commercial. I never thought I'd see such a waste from Cavett.
Courtney Love being related to Douglas Fairbanks didn't know this til I read her grandmother's memoir borrowed finery Paula Fox. She had all this fame in her bloodline with out even knowing til Courtney's mother Linda tracked her birth mother, Paula. Just fun tidbit 😁
@@chipnormandy4537 I never knew that Joan fooled around with him while they were married. It makes sense though because she was highly sexualized which was unusual for a woman of her era. She had been abused by her stepfather so that trauma manifested itself like that. She could be nasty but sometimes wasn't. In interviews she appears sad at times, most of the time trying to hide it. I empathize with her to an extent
Does anyone recognize the money disparity between these two? I just read that DB jr died worth 1.3 million and Mr. Cavett is worth 100 million. Maybe Mr. Cavett is worth it. He must have been. I guess there is different parameters of 'entertainment' . And careers and times. I get confused. I read about Dick Cavett having real problems with depression. This despite his mansion and millions. Shows to go.
Tough interview w flat and boring (self described, undemonstrative),,DFB Jr. Joan must of married him just to get ahead,,as it was well known of her by her demise,,,,
Yes, Doug Jr. was the scion of Hollywood -- the son (& step-son) of two world famous Hollywood film stars. That surely must have played a big part in Crawford's interest. Mary Pickford thought she was entirely unsuitable.
She was called Billy because she was born a male and was transitioned. Billy Cassin.(?) (He trusted me which was a very dangerous thing to do.) World War 2 and Joan Crawford “We never saw, on the home front, what war was really like.”
Someone once said about Mr. Fairbanks was - "The trouble with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is he never has anything bad to say about anyone". He was a very charming man.
If they ok only knew that we are in 2020 and they still have fans. A new generation of fans who were no where near born when they were alive. Specially Joan Crawford, man I love that woman.
Joan Crawford clawed her way to stardom but then visited the most extreme cruelty upon her two oldest children. Trauma begets trauma but her behavior was so unthinkably cruel. She was a terribly damaged person who never should have been a mother. #believesurvivors
@@ArsenicJulep stop reading mommy dearest and actually do some proper research on crawford and christina before throwing allegations at someone ...and what's wrong if she fought hard to be at the top of her game in Hollywood during a time women were discarded as soon as they got older?...she worked into her 60s and was a queen ......and as for ur " believe the survivors"...we should believe the actual survivors not someone who tried to sell lies in a book because she hated her mother and wasn't a successful actress like her mother.( And yes, i am saying this as someone who has suffered from tremendous mental and physical abuse from her own mother for years)
@@sukanyamukherjee1756 ~ Being successful in your job, whether it’s acting or selling copy machines, doesn’t mean you’re a kind person. As an adoptee myself and someone who lived for a while with a woman like Joan, I recognize many of the situations that Christina describes in such detail. I believe she loved her mother but hated her behavior. Many other people who knew Joan and spent time with her and her kids also witnessed her controlling, unreasonable behavior with her kids. Liz Smith, for one, as well as a raft of other people in and out of Hollywood.
Abused kids don’t make up stories like this. They just don’t.
I feel the same way. Joan would love to know she has fans nearly 50 years after her death
@@sukanyamukherjee1756 ~ What’s wrong is she used her children to get good publicity and treated them like employees, not people. Many contemporaries of Joan have talked about how painful it was to watch her be thoughtless and cruel to her children.
Thee last from the Golden Age of Hollywood. He also served in the Navy on top of everything he did. A true gentleman to the last. RIP.
MR FAIRBANKS WAS A DELIGHT AND A TOTAL GENTLEMEN] i AM BLESSED TO HAVING KNOWN HIM AND SPENT TIME WITH HIM AND HIS LAST WIFE
I met him briefly at about 1am - 2am in Paris , 1973/74. He handed me a presentation box, secured with silk bow, in which was contained a lady's hat. He only spoke a few words, but the charm was clearly evident, an easy manner.
Yeah, sure.
Hi Mr. Carey gibb do you have any old pics to send me of Douglas Fairbanks jr. Also how I can contact you.
This Man in his youth was SO SO HANDSOME! He had such amazing style and was totally cool Always!💗✨💗✨
Kaleb Chavez yes so true
@@claudiajeanpierre3098 I concur heartily.
I was so blessed to cook crawfish and have a wonderful dinner with him and Buddy Rogers. Very much a kind gentleman. They were friends of my uncle.
@@sandavid4954 buddy rogers was bisexual. One of may in Hollywood during that time. O wonder why Mary married him.
I was working as a designer at KQED television in 1982 in San Francisco and was walking down a narrow hallway when I looked up and saw a distinguished Douglas Fairbanks Jr. walking towards me…I was in awe!! growing up with his movies!!
I would love to hear more of his Hollywood stories.
His laugh is so endearing. What a lovely gentleman
What a classy, sophisticated, soft spoken, kind man! A true star in my eyes. What a life! I thought he was very handsome and a good actor. I am an old movie buff. Every year when family, friends and employee's didn't know what to get me, I just said, "a book on old Hollywood."
As it turns out, Mary Pickford would not let him come over whenever he wanted to. He had to be invited. It sounds here like he doesn't want to say that Mary Pickford was a bich. No wonder Douglas left her for lady Ashley
He reminds me of Eric Roberts when he was young, maybe?
Oh, Eric doesn't have his class or style. A few early actors such as Fairbanks, Grant, Niven, Hamilton had class, charm, charisma, that IT factor! They could walk into a room and heads would turn!
Love Dick Cavett interviews
The fellow was a class act.
“Saying that an actor shouldn’t be President is the same as saying a Writer shouldn’t write personal letters- only novels.” That’s an incredibly well stated and profound analogy.
Everyone who ever knew Marion Davies says how wonderful she was. She was viewed as a very funny, entertaining and ratter sharp lady. That character in Kane isn’t her! If only her films had been made in the sound area (though there were some), she would be admired and remembered today.
Don Diego Vega I totally agree!❤️
@Jeepman89 Hearst was not a good man. If Davies should have made a career without Hearst she would have maybe be a great star, but Hearst was the reason she didn´t make it.
And Marion Davies was a friend of Louella Parsons and that's how Parsons kept her job with Hearst and Parsons exposed every bit of dirt , she could dig up through spies, on all the stars and blackmailed them get the dirt on others and yet not a word about the adulterous relationship between her employer and Davies, which would have destroyed all of them at that time, charming people .
.......how wonderful for you that you knew Douglas Fairbanks Junior......I can only dream about being with him.....💖🍭
Thank you kind Alan!
Looked just like his dad, he was a wonderful man. Quite the gentleman.
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From a mad keen 76yo Aussie fan.
What a beautiful and elegant man. I love his laugh.
stunning man
I love you Douglas Fairbanks Jr! 💝💝💝
I have several photos of Doug Jr. as a young man (extremely handsome), and his toothy smile never changed. Years of smoking were catching up to him at this point.
woa barely mention Joan Crawford...30 seconds and voila !
I was also disappointed that such a tiny portion of this interview was devoted to the subject of Joan Crawford.
@@karlakor Excuse? What's wrong with Joan Crawford? She was the movie queen and it was her ex-wife. It's normal to talk about her. Do not see so much "Mommie Dearest".
@@11rokerito "W-I-R-E H-A-N-G-E-R-S !!!"
@@karlakor That's usually one of the few subjects they ask Douglas Fairbanks, Jr about. It was nice to hear something else about his life for a change.
He doesn't say much about Joan Crawford, except that she was from Texas.
He was always a gentleman, and he refrained from saying bad things about her. At one point he said Crawford's personality issues were due to a terrible childhood. He was only 19 when they married (several years younger than her).
Fairbanks said what Christina claimed wasn’t true, he said that Joan wasn’t the woman he married.
I've always been a fan of Cavett, but this was just painful. Such an amazing subject in Douglas Fairbanks, and he talks right over him, then asked such inane questions. Fairbanks just starts talking and off to commercial. I never thought I'd see such a waste from Cavett.
Shut up and watch
This was 91. The golden cavett years were long gone. Not his choice.
@@Sbaxter1989 the title says 93
I quit watching because he was so bad! And I ADORE D. Fairbanks jr!❤️
Yes, Cavett did a poor job in this interview. Maybe he was a bit intimidated. There were so many better questions he could have asked.
Thank you Alan Eichler!
Pure class
Courtney Love being related to Douglas Fairbanks didn't know this til I read her grandmother's memoir borrowed finery Paula Fox.
She had all this fame in her bloodline with out even knowing til Courtney's mother Linda tracked her birth mother, Paula.
Just fun tidbit 😁
Sweet man
Joan was called "Billie Cassin" because her mother's husband and her stepfather Henry Cassin nicknamed her that! Come on Douglas....
When she was with him, she hid her past and would never have divulged any information about it. She went by Lucille LeSuer when she came to Hollywood.
@@gregedgar6012 You have no knowledge of that. It's pure conjecture.
@@gordonhall752 ?
@@gordonhall752 actually, Joan said it
He didn't even mention Joan.
Ummmm did he really say he did not meet Joan Crawford???? Bc he interviewed her years before so I am confused lok
Boy is Dick Cavett a bad interviewer!
Are you out of your god damned mind?
Yes , He sounds like a nervous school boy worried about wetting his pants.Parkinson would have been the right interviewer here.
Why does he keep talking over his guest? Would rather hear Mr. Fairbanks.
I heard that Joan Crawford's birth name was Lucille Lesuer, not sure about the spelling.
Yes, Crawford's original surname was LeSueur. Her father was French-Canadian.
Bad sound quality
Dick Cavet sometimes just can’t get it right... but Fairbanks isn’t exactly a recanteur. It’s clear he has breathing issues, not particularly verbose.
He seemed to become more animated when Cavett brought up David Niven, he even giggled a few times.
Possibly not a big fan of Crawford's. Pretty quiet about her.
@@SoniaSyl-i8f She was his ex-wife. Probably didn't want to talk about her. It was unfortunate since he could've given insight about her
@@javiervalverde2374 she fooled around on him alot so he did the same. She then filed for divorce and claimed adultery. She was a nasty woman
@@chipnormandy4537 I never knew that Joan fooled around with him while they were married. It makes sense though because she was highly sexualized which was unusual for a woman of her era. She had been abused by her stepfather so that trauma manifested itself like that. She could be nasty but sometimes wasn't. In interviews she appears sad at times, most of the time trying to hide it. I empathize with her to an extent
Mary Beth Sully
head and all
sorry I am not english, what did he say about Joan ?
Just asked why she was called Billy Cassin. He said she had been called that as a child, at school.
@@bcsurvivor4713 only this?
@@Marketoromagnolo yes, basically. He said very little about her.
“NO WIRE HANGERS”.
Does anyone recognize the money disparity between these two? I just read that DB jr died worth 1.3 million and Mr. Cavett is worth 100 million. Maybe Mr. Cavett is worth it. He must have been. I guess there is different parameters of 'entertainment' . And careers and times. I get confused. I read about Dick Cavett having real problems with depression. This despite his mansion and millions. Shows to go.
How did Dick Cavett manage to reach his age and have $100 million left? I would be surprised he ever had that much in the first place.
if you still have assets when you die you didn't live well. they should be distributed and disposed of well beforehand
@@brAveNewWorld-q3n In my case, there might be $200,000. That ain't much. But, I agree.
@@brAveNewWorld-q3n In my case, there might be $200,000. That ain't much. But, I agree.
Tough interview w flat and boring (self described, undemonstrative),,DFB Jr.
Joan must of married him just to get ahead,,as it was well known of her by her demise,,,,
Yes, Doug Jr. was the scion of Hollywood -- the son (& step-son) of two world famous Hollywood film stars. That surely must have played a big part in Crawford's interest. Mary Pickford thought she was entirely unsuitable.
why is he talking? this ruined the illusion for me 😠
This is Jr., not Sr.
@@aeichler STILL!!!🤬🤬🤬
Osvaldo, age, is evryones enemy, seek happiness in the old movies, !
@@osvaldofranco9036 We have forgotten what elegance is. Gentlemen don't kiss and tell. Him not saying much is not a deficit in him.
You shut up...he is very old here but such a wonderful man.
I thought this show was on pbs but apparently not.
She was called Billy because she was born a male and was transitioned. Billy Cassin.(?)
(He trusted me which was a very dangerous thing to do.)
World War 2 and Joan Crawford
“We never saw, on the home front, what war was really like.”