| Stephen Steps Out | |
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| Directed by | Joseph Henabery |
| Written by | Edfrid Bingham (scenario) |
| Based on | "The Grand Cross of the Desert" byRichard Harding Davis |
| Produced by | Jesse Lasky William Elliott |
| Starring | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Harry Myers |
| Cinematography | Faxon M. Dean |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 6reels; (5,652 feet) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (Englishintertitles) |
Stephen Steps Out is a 1923 Americansilentcomedy film that is notable as being the first starring role for the still teenagedDouglas Fairbanks Jr. Directed byJoseph Henabery, it was based on a short story byRichard Harding Davis, "The Grand Cross of the Desert."[1]
With this film the young Fairbanks Jr. opted for a screen career despite opposition from his famous actor father,Douglas Fairbanks.
"I was terribly chubby," recalled Fairbanks Jr. "Did it for the money. When my parents separated, it was hardly amicable and mother and I needed to eat. Movie companies were willing to exploit my famous name. I didn't really understand that at the time."[2]
As described in a film magazine review,[3] the young son of a wealthy American fails his class in history at school, so he is sent to Turkey to learn the subject firsthand on the premises. He learns that the instructor who flunked him in his exam at school is to be dismissed for it, and he intervenes and gets the school board to retain the man, having first obtained for him a decoration from the Sultan.
With no prints ofStephen Steps Out located in any film archives,[4] it is alost film.[5][6]
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