Although his famous father did not want him in the business, the son of swashbuckling actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. started acting at an early age and eventually went on to become the first second-generation movie star. When he was barely a teenager,...

Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr., KBE, DSC, K.st.j. (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor and a highly decorated naval officer of World War...

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 90, the son of Hollywood royalty whose debonair presence in about 80 films as cads and good-natured gadabouts gave way in the 1940s to a second career as a television producer and social lion, died May 7 at a hospital in...

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR. American leading man Douglas Fairbanks Jr., star of "Gunga Din" and "Sinbad the Sailor" among other films and a World War II U.S. Navy commander, died May 7 in Manhattan. He was 90. Fairbanks, an actor, producer, businessman...

Bad news, ladies: the Geezer Roué—the dashing older (and much older) playboy who saw New York as the verdant playing field of seduction; that dignified and slightly sleazy social genus (and genius) who bloomed in New York City like some rank but irresistible flower, spreading...

For years, Linda Carroll kept quiet while her offspring, Courtney Love, filled tabloids brimful with brimstone tales of victimization by a wicked mom who forced her to live in a chicken shed. Now, in Her Mother’s Daughter, Ms. Carroll tells her own bizarre story and...