{"id":542420,"date":"2026-04-21T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542420\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:17:10","slug":"kent-builder-sells-items-from-grandfather-douglas-fairbanks-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542420\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent builder sells items from grandfather Douglas Fairbanks Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fairbanks Jr&#8217;s film career began as a teenager during the silent pictures era, when he signed a contract with Paramount Pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His father Douglas Fairbanks Sr had starred in silent adventure films including The Mark of Zorro and Robin Hood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fairbanks Jr went on to star in Our Modern Maidens opposite Joan Crawford, who he would later marry, and Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory, for which she won an Oscar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After splitting from Crawford, the actor married Mary Lee Eppling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Weston is the son of the couple&#8217;s oldest daughter, Daphne Fairbanks, who moved to the UK in the 1940s and from whom he inherited the collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fairbanks Jr&#8217;s film career began as a teenager during the silent pictures era, when he signed a contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-542420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}