Remembering Broderick Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on their birthdays | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

"On April 22, 1939, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., the son of silent film legend Douglas Fairbanks Sr., married Mary Lee Eppling in an intimate ceremony held at her parents’ home in Los Angeles, California. The couple, who had met the previous year at a social gathering in Virginia, sought a quiet union far removed from the press frenzy that had shadowed Fairbanks’ first marriage to Joan Crawford. Circa late 1930s, Fairbanks was transitioning into diplomatic work, a path Mary Lee would later support dur

"On April 22, 1939, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., the son of silent film legend Douglas Fairbanks Sr., married Mary Lee Eppling in an intimate ceremony held at her parents’ home in Los Angeles, California." | History Through Time

"Circa the spring of 1931, Joan Crawford and her first husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., were photographed alongside their close friend, actor and interior designer Billy Haines, at a lavish costume party hosted by Marion Davies at San Simeon—the palatial estate of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst in coastal California. The fête, attended by Hollywood’s elite including Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin, and Norma Shearer, unfolded beneath soaring vaulted ceilings and moonlit terraces, with