Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, 1920 One hundred years ago this month, Mary Pickford sent Grace Kingsley a letter from Montecantini, Italy all about her travels with her husband, Douglas Fairbanks: You would be most happy to see the delightful reception we have met with all through Italy, Naples, Genoa, Florence and Rome, by the Fascisti, artists, and the social world. The demonstration at the station in Rome on our arrival was as enthusiastic as any we have ever had. I was again forced to ride on Douglas’ shoulder, and we were rushed into the post office to escape the amiable but rather too eager mob. Pickford and Fairbanks had left Los Angeles in late February and arrived in Italy on April 23. The police mistook their fans for rioters, very much like when Pickford and Fairbanks visited England in 1920. The couple departed safely through the back door of the post office. Douglas Fairbanks loved to travel; Pickford gave her opinion in her 1955 autobiography: After our hectic and…
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