I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.
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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Quote
“In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.”
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