Great Britain's foremost film producer Alexander Korda during a week long visit to America for meetings with Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin of United Artists. Also pictured is Robert Fairbanks, brother of Douglas.
Eight members of the traveling ducal party on the platform of the last car on the train. The train is called the California Santa Fe Limited, as per the railing sign. The Duke and Duchess of Alba stand at the center with one woman in between them. The Duchess grasps the hand of Mary Pickford, who is on the ground. Douglas Fairbanks stands to Mary's left, looking up at the Duchess. Photo appears with the article "Alba Promises to Return," Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 1924: A12.
View of eight members of the traveling ducal party on the platform of the last car of a train. A circular sign bears the name of the train, "California Santa Fe Limited." The Duke and Duchess of Alba stand at the center, with one woman in between them. The three look down at their two hosts on the ground, the actors Douglas Fairbanks (L) and Mary Pickford (R). Reported in "Alba Promises to Return," Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 1924: A12.
Mary Pickford, Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade, in a white satin gown, seated in a coach covered in stevia, roses, sweet peas and gladioli, with a coachman and a footman, drawn by four white horses. The harness of the horses was covered in pink satin ribbon. The photograph was taken in front of the Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) at the intersection of Colorado Blvd. and Orange Grove Blvd. Mary Pickford was the first woman and the first film industry professional to be a Grand Marshal of the parade.
Enterence for Santa Claus Lane was at Hollywood and Vine Blvds in Hollywood. E. J. Shurtz was chairman of Santa Claus Lane Committee and manager of the Broadway Hollywood. Strasburg was also in a leadership position on the committee.
Mary Pickford, center, in costume as Little Lord Fauntleroy, with actors as tenant's children at left and in right foreground, butler at right, maids at top of stairs, in set depicting Dorincourt Castle, filmed at Brunton Studio.
The photograph relates to the court case for the attempted kidnapping and ransom of Mary Pickford. S.S. Hahn was the defense attorney for Pickford's accused kidnappers.