title: Silent-Era Filmmaking in Santa Barbara (CA) (Images of America)
author:  Robert S. Birchard 
description: Author Robert S. Birchard, who selected these rarely or neverseen photographs from his personal collection, is an awardwinning film and video editor whose books include Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood and King Cowboy--Tom Mix and the Movies. A guest curator for an exhibit on the "Flying A" studio at the Santa Barbara Historical Society Museum, Birchard has appeared on television's History Detectives and in the documentaries Cecil B. DeMille: America Epic and The Woman With the Hungry Eyes--The Life and Films of Theda Bara.
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  Copyright © 2016 by Tracey Goessel
  
  All rights reserved  
  Published by Chicago Review Press Incorporated  
  814 North Franklin Street  
  Chicago, Illinois 60610
  
  ISBN 978-1-61373-407-0
  
   **Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data**  
  Goessel, Tracey.  
  The first king of Hollywood : the life of Douglas Fairbanks / Tracey Goessel.  
  pages cm  
  Summary: “The first truly definitive biography of Douglas Fairbanks, the
  greatest leading man of the silent film era”— Provided by publisher.  
  Includes bibliographical references and index.  
  ISBN 978-1-61373-404-9 (hardback)  
  1\. Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883–1939. 2. Actors—United States—Biography. 3.
  Motion picture producer and directors—United States—Biography. I. Title.
  
  PN2287.F3G84 2015  
  791.4302'8092—dc23  
  [B]
  
  2015018526
  
   _All images are from the author’s collection unless otherwise indicated_  
  Interior design: [Nord Compo](http://www.nordcompo.fr)
  
  Printed in the United St