Tracey Goesselis on the board of directors of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and is the founder of the Los Angelesbased Film Preservation Society. She has published numerous articles on silent film history and has lectured widely on Douglas Fairbanks. She is a major collector of silent film ephemera, and her purchase of the Pickford-Fairbanks love letters started an eight-year quest to write the definitive biography of America's favorite swashbuckler.
"For years, Fairbanks and Pickford reignedover Hollywood as its
first king and queenand, here, in The First King Of Hollywood,weve
the first, if not also the weightiest,Fairbanks biography. Acting
out his ownstunts, Fairbanks, we learn, helped shape ourenduring
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alone....5 Stars" Philip Turner and Leslie Waller Screen Trade
Magazine
"one of the most delightful Hollywood biographies to slide down the
mast in years." New York Times Sunday Review
"Tracey Goessel's biography of Douglas Fairbanks is impeccably
researched and elegantly written. It gives new relevance to one of
the seminal figures of 20th century movies and manhood, and at the
same time it gives us an amazingly intimate view of the tragic love
affair between Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. This is not merely a
worthy book, it's a necessary book." Scott Eyman, author of John
Wayne: The Life and Legend and Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of
Cecil B. DeMille
"Tracey Goessel gives us for the first time the real,
three-dimensional man, in all his vibrancy, creativity, and
sexiness. Beyond being a mega-star, he was a daring, hands-on
producer and industry leader." Cari Beauchamp, historian,
journalist, and author of Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood
Years
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