His Picture in the Papers
HE WRECKED AN AUTO! WAS THROWN OFF A TRAIN! PUT OUT A CHAMPION MIDDLEWEIGHT AND FOUGHT A LOSING FIGHT WITH TWO HUSKY POLICEMEN
Overview
Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established Fairbanks as the American ideal of pop, vim, and vigor. Furthermore, the film brought him together with the two collaborators who were to play a profound role in the evolution of his screen persona: writer Anita Loos and her future husband, director John Emerson. The theme was, according to Emerson and Loos, "the great American love of publicity."
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks
Pete Prindle
Clarence Handyside
Proteus Prindle
Rene Boucicault
Pansy Prindle
Jean Temple
Pearl Prindle
Charles Butler
Cassius Cadwalader
Loretta Blake
Christine Cadwalader
Homer Hunt
Melville
Helena Rupport
Olga
Terry McGovern
Referee (uncredited)
Nick Thompson
Ticket Agent (uncredited)
Erich von Stroheim
One of the Weazels (uncredited)
