Douglas Fairbanks, 1924

There are two kinds of Seville: the jack, knight and king, namely Giralda, Alcázar and Plaza de España; and the rest, which is where the real Seville is.

It's hard to imagine how anyone thought of putting Douglas Fairbanks and his wife Mary Pickford in the Count's Corral in the spring of 1924.

They were the absolute kings of Hollywood, the stars of the stars of the cinematic firmament, who even today would not have any remote comparison with any of the current actor marriages.

The couple who, along with Charles Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, founded United Artists. He was the first Zorro, the first D'Artagnan, the first Robin Hood, the first Thief of Bagdad, and the first Pirate of the glorious silent film era. Even the unfortunate children in the photo, who probably never set foot in a movie theater, knew who he was and played at being his characters with wooden swords and paper hats.

Douglas Fairbanks himself was so astounded by the living conditions that, according to the chronicles, he went so far as to say that people there lived like rabbits, and he did not hesitate to open his wallet and give a more than generous donation of 200 pesetas for toys for his young admirers.

Source: Julio Domínguez Arjona