Stephen Steps Out is a 1923 American silent comedy film that is notable as being the first starring role for the still teenaged Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Directed by Joseph Henabery, it was based on a short story by Richard Harding Davis, "The Grand Cross of the Desert.

When my parents separated, it was hardly amicable and mother and I needed to eat.

"[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.