LATE FILM STAR
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS FUNERAL COLLAPSE OF WIDOW (United Pres? A= c n -—ripe, t.i CoD.vrltrht) HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 17 Five thousand women and children in a roped-off area attended the funeral of the late Douglas Fairbanks, sen., whose death was announced last week. The comedian, Charles Chaplin. was a pallbearer, and Tom Mix wore a black cowboy outfit.
The casket was placed alongside that of the late Will Rogers, in a temporary vault.
Douglas Fairbanks, jun., escorted the widow, formerly Lady Ashley, who collapsed. Mary Pickford, Fairbanks’ former wife, was not in attendance. She said she preferred to “ remember Doug, as the lively spirit I knew him in life.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20991, 19 December 1939, Page 8
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110LATE FILM STAR Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20991, 19 December 1939, Page 8
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