Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Family Collection stars at Sworders, March 2

Photograph of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. with his second wife, Mary Lee, part of a collection of Fairbanks family photographs estimated at £200- £300
Photograph of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. with his second wife, Mary Lee, part of a collection of Fairbanks family photographs estimated at £200-£300

STANSTED MOUNTFICHET, UK – Hollywood royalty comes to Sworders this spring. A stand-alone auction on March 2 includes more than 100 lots from the family collection of the legendary American actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000). The archive of photographs, cinema posters, personal jewelry, objets of vertu, furniture, paintings and clothing was amassed during Fairbanks’s life as a film star, naval officer, producer and family man. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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