FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS motion picture actor and producer, was born at Denver (Colo.), on May 23, 1883. He studied at the Colorado School of Mines, attended Harvard university, and entered a brokerage firm in Wall street. In 1901 he took up the stage as a career, eventually starring in several plays, among them the Man of the Hour and The Gentleman from Mississippi. Since 1915 he devoted himself to the screen, in 1917 becoming the head of his own producing company. His pictures include The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers, Robin Hood, Don Q, and the Black Pirate. He married Mary Pickford in 1920 as his second wife but she divorced him in 1935. In 1936 he married the former Lady Ashley.