1919 - His Majesty the American

• #1 box office - acrobatics - youth

1920 - United Artists - Mark of Zorro

• early California - whip, dueling - action

1920 - built Pickfair in Beverly Hills with Mary Pickford

• 20 acres, servants, horses, Abdullah the Turk, glamor guests, conspic. consumption, the leisure ethic of regeneration through fun, sports, consumerism

1921 - Three Musketeers - single handsprings

1922 - Robin Hood - his best picture - $5m. profit

• giant set - $250,000 castle - grandstands
• spectacle - costumes - exotic location

1924 - Thief of Baghdad - set by William C. Menzies

1925 - Don Q, Son of Zorro

1926 - Black Pirate - Technicolor - pure action

1927 - 1st president of Academy

• 1st handprints in Grauman's with Mary
• bought 3000 acres in San Diego and built Rancho Zorro

1929 - Mary won Oscar for talkie Coquette

• Cinderella image - clothes, jewelry, cosmetics
• "new" woman with old values

• Olympics in Los Angeles - wrestling
• modern consumer version of Defoe's 1719 novel
• not fall, suffer, repent, redemption of Protestantism
• rather fun, sports, adventure, renewal of consumerism

Doug & Mary represent Aquarian lifestyle on the outside, but traditional values on the inside

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