Historic Photo Gallery: 1900 to 1920
1903
In 1903 Douglas Fairbanks made his Walnut Street Theatre debut in a supporting role
in
The Pit. Fairbanks would return two more times to the Walnut, starring
in The Man of the Hour and supporting Thomas Wise in
A Gentleman from Mississippi.
Fairbanks soon after made the crossover into the movie business, where he went on to
help form United Artists Studios and married "America's Sweetheart," movie star
Mary Pickford. This was Hollywood's first major celebrity marriage.
(Photograph courtesy of the Theatre Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia.)
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