Word: fairbanksian
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...talkies had taken over; Fairbanks sounded flutey and looked older in them. In 1933 he and Pickford separated. The swashbuckler was 50; another Roosevelt with a big smile was giving America a Fairbanksian jolt of optimism, and Doug was disconsolate. He told his son Douglas Jr. (by then a film star himself), "I've done everything--twice." Not just two Zorro movies and two D'Artagnans, but two careers, two marriages, too much work and play. He said he wanted to die quickly...
...attained his first eminence as a West End matinee idol, and his second as a Hollywood dreamboat in Wuthering Heights (1939) and Rebecca (1940). Though he pored over scripts like a new critical scholar, he was an irrepressibly physical stage performer, scaling balconies and executing dizzying falls with Fairbanksian elan. Like many men, Olivier housed a congeries of contradictions; uniquely, he transformed them into living...
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