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(Image: Photo Play, August 1919)
By Betsy J. Green
Several prominent Hollywood personalities were seen in and around our fair city this month. One was movie star Douglas Fairbanks who was here with Montecito residents Mr. and Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo. McAdoo was the former head of the U.S. Treasury. He called his friend Fairbanks to help him film a home movie. The cameraman with the cap is Victor Fleming, who later directed “Gone With the Wind.”
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In the photo that’s Mr. & Mrs. McAdoo or ? And the man on the left is Fleming?
Victor Fleming is on the left. The man in the middle is Douglas Fairbanks.