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Sisters Lillian Vera Bleck (née
Hawkes) and Lady Ashley (née Sylvia Hawkes; later Mrs Douglas Fairbanks; Lady Stanley of Alderley; Mrs Clark Gable; Princess Dimitri Djordjadze) drawn by Olive Snell, 1930
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Sisters Lillian Vera Bleck (née
Hawkes) and Lady Ashley (née Sylvia Hawkes; later Mrs Douglas Fairbanks; Lady Stanley of Alderley; Mrs Clark Gable; Princess Dimitri Djordjadze) drawn by Olive Snell, 1930
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Douglas Fairbanks and Enid Bennett in Robin Hood (1922)
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Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Pickfair, Beverly Hills, 1924
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Sylvia Ashley, England, 1932
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Lady
Sylvia Ashley (later wife of Douglas Fairbanks and Clark Gable), 1931
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Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks attending the
British Empire Exhibition
at Wembley Park, Middlesex, 1924
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Sylvia Ashley, 1924
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Boston Post, Massachusetts, August 28, 1921
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The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, November 4, 1934
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El Paso Herald, Texas, December 10, 1921
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The Wichita Beacon, Kansas, September 24, 1921
(If only!!!)
Interview with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, The Wichita Beacon, Kansas, September 18, 1921
Walking three blocks sometimes tires me out. If it is in a crowd I never for a moment relax my muscles. Let a small boy feel my arm and find it flabby and he wound turn from me in disgust. The small boy conceives me as a strong man, an athlete, and it is my obligation to him not to disillusion him.
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Reading Times, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1930
(After separating in the early 30′s Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks divorced in 1936 and Fairbanks married Sylvia, Lady Ashley months later.)
Fairbanks is named as co-respondent in the divorce of Lord and Lady Ashley in London, The Sandusky Register, Ohio, July 21, 1934:

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Reading Times, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1930
(After separating in the early 30′s Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks divorced in 1936 and Fairbanks married Sylvia, Lady Ashley months later.)
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Douglas Fairbanks, Chicago, February 6, 1933