Chances is a 1931 American pre-Code war drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. It is based on the 1930 novel by A. Hamilton Gibbs.
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Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best-known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939), and The Corsican Brothers (1941). He was the son of Douglas Fairbanks and the stepson of Mary Pickford, and his first marriage was to actress Joan Crawford.
Portrait by Allan Warren, 1973
Young Fairbanks with his mother
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., "Father of the U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers"
Fairbanks with Maureen O'Hara in Sinbad the Sailor (1947)