Doug & Mary: A biography of Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford

In this fast-paced, wide-ranging biography, Gary Carey traces their origins and exploits with a clear-eyed tenacity that Little Mary herself would have admired; and there's a grace and energy in his writing worthy of Doug making one of his stupendous leaps across a chasm of improbabilities. In the end Carey has managed to capture and explain that most elusive secret of every movie eminence, from Pickford and Fairbanks to Streisand and Stallone: star quality." Richard Corliss