In a relatively brief film career that lasted two decades, Douglas Fairbanks played in 49 movies, was a director, screenwriter, producer, and along with D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, and Mary Pickford, was one of the founders of United Artists.…

The early tales and ballads describe Robin Hood as being a yeoman. Anthony Munday’s 1598 play ‘The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington’ turned him into nobility. Over the years makers of film and television have approached the material in…