Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Timeline

Dec. 9, 1909: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is born in New York City to actor Douglas Fairbanks and Anna Beth Sully.

June 3, 1929: Marries actress Joan Crawford at St. Malachy's Church in New York City.

May 12, 1933: Fairbanks and Crawford divorce.

Feb. 17, 1939: Stars in Gunga Din.

April 22, 1939: Marries Mary Lee Hartford.

1941: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appoints Fairbanks a special envoy to South America.

Jan. 17, 1947: Stars in Sinbad the Sailor.

Oct. 17, 1947: Stars in The Exile.

1950: Stars in State Secret.

Dec. 18, 1981: Stars in Ghost Story with Fred Astaire and John Houseman.

1988: Wife Mary dies of cancer.

May 30, 1991: Fairbanks marries Vera Shelton at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.

May 7, 2000: Dies in Manhattan, New York of undisclosed causes.