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Mary Pickford is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Canadienne born on 7 april 1892 at Toronto (Canada)
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was a Canadian-American motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Known as "America's Sweetheart", "Little Mary" and the "girl with the curls", Pickford was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting.
Pickford was awarded the second Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound film role and also received an honorary Academy Award in 1976. In consideration of her contributions to American cinema, the American Film Institute ranked Pickford as 24th in its 1999 list of greatest female stars of classic Hollywood Cinema.
Pickford became secretly involved in a relationship with Douglas Fairbanks. They toured the US together in 1918 to promote Liberty Bond sales for the World War I effort. Around this time, Pickford also suffered from the flu during the 1918 flu pandemic, but survived. Pickford divorced Moore on March 2, 1920, and married Fairbanks on March 28 of the same year. They went to Europe for their honeymoon; fans in London and in Paris caused riots trying to get to the famous couple. The couple's triumphant return to Hollywood was witnessed by vast crowds who turned out to hail them at railway stations across the United States.
The Mark of Zorro (1920) and a series of other swashbucklers gave the popular Fairbanks a more romantic, heroic image. Pickford continued to epitomize the virtuous but fiery girl next door. Even at private parties, people instinctively stood up when Pickford entered a room; she and her husband were often referred to as "Hollywood royalty". Their international reputations were broad. Foreign heads of state and dignitaries who visited the White House often asked if they could also visit Pickfair, the couple's mansion in Beverly Hills.
Dinners at Pickfair included a number of notable guests. Charlie Chaplin, Fairbanks' best friend, was often present. Other guests included George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Elinor Glyn, Helen Keller, H. G. Wells, Lord Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Noël Coward, Max Reinhardt, Baron Nishi, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Austen Chamberlain, Sir Harry Lauder, and Meher Baba, among others. The public nature of Pickford's second marriage strained it to the breaking point. Both she and Fairbanks had little time off from producing and acting in their films. They were also constantly on display as America's unofficial ambassadors to the world, leading parades, cutting ribbons, and making speeches. When their film careers both began to founder at the end of the silent era, Fairbanks' restless nature prompted him to overseas travel (something which Pickford did not enjoy). When Fairbanks' romance with Sylvia, Lady Ashley became public in the early 1930s, he and Pickford separated. They divorced January 10, 1936. Fairbanks' son by his first wife, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., claimed his father and Pickford long regretted their inability to reconcile.
On June 24, 1937, Pickford married her third and last husband, actor and band leader Buddy Rogers. They adopted two children: Roxanne (born 1944, adopted 1944) and Ronald Charles (born 1937, adopted 1943, a.k.a. Ronnie Pickford Rogers). As a PBS American Experience documentary noted, Pickford's relationship with her children was tense. She criticized their physical imperfections, including Ronnie's small stature and Roxanne's crooked teeth. Both children later said their mother was too self-absorbed to provide real maternal love. In 2003, Ronnie recalled that "Things didn't work out that much, you know. But I'll never forget her. I think that she was a good woman.
(1929)
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Birth name Gladys Louise Smith
Nationality Canada
Birth 7 april 1892 at Toronto (Canada)
Death 29 may 1979 (at 87 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Creator of United Artists
Creator of List of United Artists films
Awards Academy Award for Best Actress
Nationality Canada
Birth 7 april 1892 at Toronto (Canada)
Death 29 may 1979 (at 87 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Creator of United Artists
Creator of List of United Artists films
Awards Academy Award for Best Actress
Pickford was awarded the second Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound film role and also received an honorary Academy Award in 1976. In consideration of her contributions to American cinema, the American Film Institute ranked Pickford as 24th in its 1999 list of greatest female stars of classic Hollywood Cinema.
Biography
Pickford was married three times. She married Owen Moore, an Irish-born silent film actor, on January 7, 1911. It is rumored she became pregnant by Moore in the early 1910s and had a miscarriage or an abortion. Some accounts suggest this resulted in her later inability to have children. The couple had numerous marital problems, notably Moore's alcoholism, insecurity about living in the shadow of Pickford's fame, and bouts of domestic violence. The couple lived apart for several years.Pickford became secretly involved in a relationship with Douglas Fairbanks. They toured the US together in 1918 to promote Liberty Bond sales for the World War I effort. Around this time, Pickford also suffered from the flu during the 1918 flu pandemic, but survived. Pickford divorced Moore on March 2, 1920, and married Fairbanks on March 28 of the same year. They went to Europe for their honeymoon; fans in London and in Paris caused riots trying to get to the famous couple. The couple's triumphant return to Hollywood was witnessed by vast crowds who turned out to hail them at railway stations across the United States.
The Mark of Zorro (1920) and a series of other swashbucklers gave the popular Fairbanks a more romantic, heroic image. Pickford continued to epitomize the virtuous but fiery girl next door. Even at private parties, people instinctively stood up when Pickford entered a room; she and her husband were often referred to as "Hollywood royalty". Their international reputations were broad. Foreign heads of state and dignitaries who visited the White House often asked if they could also visit Pickfair, the couple's mansion in Beverly Hills.
Dinners at Pickfair included a number of notable guests. Charlie Chaplin, Fairbanks' best friend, was often present. Other guests included George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Elinor Glyn, Helen Keller, H. G. Wells, Lord Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Noël Coward, Max Reinhardt, Baron Nishi, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Austen Chamberlain, Sir Harry Lauder, and Meher Baba, among others. The public nature of Pickford's second marriage strained it to the breaking point. Both she and Fairbanks had little time off from producing and acting in their films. They were also constantly on display as America's unofficial ambassadors to the world, leading parades, cutting ribbons, and making speeches. When their film careers both began to founder at the end of the silent era, Fairbanks' restless nature prompted him to overseas travel (something which Pickford did not enjoy). When Fairbanks' romance with Sylvia, Lady Ashley became public in the early 1930s, he and Pickford separated. They divorced January 10, 1936. Fairbanks' son by his first wife, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., claimed his father and Pickford long regretted their inability to reconcile.
On June 24, 1937, Pickford married her third and last husband, actor and band leader Buddy Rogers. They adopted two children: Roxanne (born 1944, adopted 1944) and Ronald Charles (born 1937, adopted 1943, a.k.a. Ronnie Pickford Rogers). As a PBS American Experience documentary noted, Pickford's relationship with her children was tense. She criticized their physical imperfections, including Ronnie's small stature and Roxanne's crooked teeth. Both children later said their mother was too self-absorbed to provide real maternal love. In 2003, Ronnie recalled that "Things didn't work out that much, you know. But I'll never forget her. I think that she was a good woman.
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Filmography of Mary Pickford (162 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Smash His Camera | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
| 1963 | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
| 1949 | Love Happy | Executive Producer | |
| 1948 | Sleep, My Love | Producer | |
| 1947 | White Cradle Inn | Producer | |
| 1947 | Stork Bites Man | Producer | |
| 1946 | Little Iodine | Executive Producer | |
| 1944 | Wilson | Actress | |
| 1936 | The Gay Desperado | Producer | |
| 1936 | One Rainy Afternoon | Producer | |
| 1933 | Secrets | Actress, Executive Producer | Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton |
| 1931 | Kiki | Actress | Kiki |
| 1931 | The House That Shadows Built | Actress | (archive footage) |
| 1929 | Coquette | Actress, Producer | Norma Besant |
| 1929 | The Taming of the Shrew | Actress, Producer | Caterina |
| 1927 | My Best Girl | Actress, Producer | Maggie Johnson |
| 1927 | The Gaucho | Actress | The Virgin Mary |
| 1927 | A Kiss from Mary Pickford | Actress | Self (archive footage) |
| 1926 | Sparrows | Actress, Producer | Molly |
| 1926 | The Black Pirate | Actress | Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited) |
| 1925 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Actress | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) |
| 1925 | Little Annie Rooney | Actress, Writer, Producer | Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney |
| 1924 | Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall | Actress, Director, Producer | Dorothy Vernon |
| 1923 | Little Miss Dolittle | Actress | |
| 1923 | Rosita | Actress, Producer | Rosita |
| 1923 | Hollywood | Actress | Mary Pickford |
| 1922 | Tess of the Storm Country | Actress, Producer | Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner |
| 1921 | Through The Back Door | Actress, Producer | Jeanne |
| 1921 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Actress, Producer | Cedric Errol / Widow Errol |
| 1921 | The Love Light | Actress, Producer | Angela Carlotti |
| 1920 | Pollyanna | Actress, Producer | Pollyanna Whittier |
| 1920 | Suds | Actress, Producer | Amanda Afflick |
| 1919 | Captain Kidd, Jr. | Actress, Producer | Mary MacTavish |
| 1919 | The Hoodlum | Actress, Executive Producer | Amy Burke |
| 1919 | Heart o' the Hills | Actress | Mavis Hawn |
| 1919 | Daddy-Long-Legs | Actress, Producer | Judy Abbott |
| 1919 | Her Kingdom of Dreams | Director | |
| 1918 | Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley | Actress | Amarilly Jenkins |
| 1918 | M'Liss | Actress | Melissa 'M'liss' Smith |
| 1918 | How Could You, Jean? | Actress, Producer | Jean Mackaye |
| 1918 | 100% American | Actress | Mayme |
| 1918 | Johanna Enlists | Actress, Executive Producer | Johanna Renssaller |
| 1918 | Stella Maris | Actress | Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake |
| 1918 | Cupid Angling | Actress | |
| 1918 | How Could You, Jean? | Actress, Producer | Jean Mackaye |
| 1917 | A Romance of the Redwoods | Actress | Jenny Lawrence |
| 1917 | The Pride of the Clan | Actress | Marget MacTavish |
| 1917 | The Poor Little Rich Girl | Actress | Gwen |
| 1917 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Actress | Rebecca Randall |
| 1917 | The Little American | Actress, Producer | Angela Moore |
| 1917 | A Little Princess | Actress, Producer | Sara Crewe |
| 1916 | The Eternal Grind | Actress | Louise |
| 1916 | The Foundling | Actress, Producer | Molly O |
| 1916 | Hulda from Holland | Actress | Hulda |
| 1916 | Less Than the Dust | Actress, Producer | Radha |
| 1916 | Poor Little Peppina | Actress, Producer | Peppina |
| 1916 | Poor Little Peppina | Actress, Producer | Peppina |
| 1915 | Madame Butterfly | Actress | Cho-Cho-San |
| 1915 | The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Actress | Glad |
| 1915 | Esmeralda | Actress | Esmeralda Rogers |
| 1915 | Fanchon, the Cricket | Actress | Fanchon, the Cricket |
| 1915 | The Foundling | Actress, Producer | Molly O |
| 1915 | A Girl of Yesterday | Actress, Scriptwriter | Jane Stuart |
| 1915 | Mistress Nell | Actress | Nell Gwyn |
| 1915 | Little Pal | Actress | 'Little Pal' |
| 1915 | Rags | Actress, Scriptwriter | Rags / Alice McCloud |
| 1914 | Hearts Adrift | Actress, Writer | Nina |
| 1914 | Tess of the Storm Country | Actress | Tessibel Skinner |
| 1914 | A Good Little Devil | Actress | Juliet |
| 1914 | Cinderella | Actress | Cinderella |
| 1914 | The Eagle's Mate | Actress | Anemone Breckenridge |
| 1914 | Such a Little Queen | Actress | Queen Anna Victoria |
| 1914 | Behind the Scenes | Actress | Dolly Lane |
| 1913 | Caprice | Actress | Mercy Baxter |
| 1913 | In the Bishop's Carriage | Actress | Nance Olden |
| 1913 | The Unwelcome Guest | Actress | Jessie - the Slavey |
| 1913 | Fate | Actress | Unknown Role |
| 1912 | The New York Hat | Actress | Mary Harding, the Daughter |
| 1912 | Won by a Fish | Actress | The Woman |
| 1912 | A Feud in the Kentucky Hills | Actress | The Daughter |
| 1912 | Friends | Actress | Dora - the Orphan |
| 1912 | The Informer | Actress | The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart |
| 1912 | The Inner Circle | Actress | The Rich Italian's Daughter |
| 1912 | My Baby | Actress | The Wife |
| 1912 | The One She Loved | Actress | The Wife |
| 1912 | So Near, Yet So Far | Actress | The Young Woman |
| 1912 | With the Enemy's Help | Actress | Faro Kate |
| 1912 | A Beast at Bay | Actress | The Young Woman |
| 1912 | The Female of the Species | Actress | The Miner's Wife's Sister |
| 1912 | The Narrow Road | Actress | Mrs. Jim Holcomb |
| 1911 | A Decree of Destiny | Actress | Mary |
| 1911 | The Italian Barber | Actress | Alice |
| 1911 | Sweet Memories | Actress | Polly Biblett |
| 1911 | Artful Kate | Actress | Artful Kate Stanley |
| 1911 | The Dream | Actress | Nell Herbert |
| 1911 | Behind the Stockade | Actress | Florence Williams |
| 1911 | The Better Way | Actress | Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass |
| 1911 | By the House That Jack Built | Actress | |
| 1911 | 'Tween Two Loves | Actress | Grace |
| 1911 | The Fisher-Maid | Actress | Paula, The Fishing-Maid |
| 1911 | For Her Brother's Sake | Actress | Madge Spotwood |
| 1911 | For the Queen's Honor | Actress | Princess Gilda |
| 1911 | In Old Madrid | Actress | |
| 1911 | The Master and the Man | Actress | Elsie Graham |
| 1911 | The Mirror | Actress | Dorothy |
| 1911 | Second Sight | Actress | Gertrude Edgar |
| 1911 | The Sentinel Asleep | Actress | Unknown Role |
| 1911 | The Skating Bug | Actress | The Girl |
| 1911 | The Stampede | Actress | Nello |
| 1911 | Their First Misunderstanding | Actress | Mae Darcy |
| 1911 | The Toss of a Coin | Actress | Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter |
| 1911 | When the Cat's Away | Actress | Dorothy, The Wife |
| 1911 | The Portrait | Actress | Little Vera - the Model |
| 1911 | A Dog's Tale | Actress | |
| 1911 | A Gasoline Engagement | Actress | Flora Powell |
| 1911 | A Manly Man | Actress | Lola |
| 1911 | At the Duke's Command | Actress | One of the Ladies of the Court |
| 1911 | Back to the Soil | Actress | Sadie Allen |
| 1911 | The Call of the Song | Actress | Amy Gordon |
| 1911 | The Fair Dentist | Actress | Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist |
| 1911 | Her Darkest Hour | Actress | Ruth |
| 1911 | His Dress Shirt | Actress | Mrs. Kirby |
| 1911 | In the Sultan's Garden | Actress | Haidee |
| 1911 | The Lighthouse Keeper | Actress | Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter |
| 1911 | Maid or Man | Actress | Elsie Keene |
| 1911 | The Message in the Bottle | Actress | Louise Spencer |
| 1911 | A Decree of Destiny | Actress | Mary |
| 1911 | Pictureland | Actress | Unconfimed Role |
| 1911 | The Secret of the Palm | Actress | Unknown Role |
| 1911 | The Courting of Mary | Actress | Mary |
| 1910 | All on Account of the Milk | Actress | The Young Woman |
| 1910 | An Arcadian Maid | Actress | The Arcadian Maid |
| 1910 | The Englishman and the Girl | Actress | The Girl |
| 1910 | A Flash of Light | Actress | |
| 1910 | The Kid | Actress | (unconfirmed) |
| 1910 | Ramona | Actress | Ramona |
| 1910 | A Romance of the Western Hills | Actress | Indian |
| 1910 | The Two Brothers | Actress | A Mexican |
| 1910 | The Unchanging Sea | Actress | The Daughter as an Adult |
| 1910 | What the Daisy Said | Actress | Martha |
| 1910 | The Thread of Destiny | Actress | Myrtle |
| 1910 | Little Nell's Tobacco | Actress | |
| 1910 | As It Is in Life | Actress | George Forrester's Daughter as Adult |
| 1910 | The Woman from Mellon's | Actress | Mary Petersby |
| 1909 | The Country Doctor | Actress | Poor Mother's Elder Daughter |
| 1909 | The Day After | Writer | |
| 1909 | 1776, or The Hessian Renegades | Actress | Messenger's Sister |
| 1909 | The Lonely Villa | Actress | One of the Cullison Children |
| 1909 | The Sealed Room | Actress | A Lady-in-Waiting |
| 1909 | To Save Her Soul | Actress | Agnes Hailey |
| 1909 | Mrs. Jones Entertains | Actress | |
| 1909 | The Deception | Actress | |
| 1909 | The Fascinating Mrs. Francis | Actress | |
| 1909 | Pippa Passes | Actress | Girl in crowd |
| 1909 | The Gibson Goddess | Actress | Woman on Sidewalk |
| 1909 | The Little Darling | Actress | Little Darling |
| 1909 | The Renunciation | Actress | Kittie Ryan |
| 1909 | Getting Even | Actress, Scriptwriter | Miss Lucy |
| 1909 | Her First Biscuits | Actress | Biscuit Victim |
| 1909 | In Old Kentucky | Actress | Partygoer |
| 1909 | Two Memories | Actress | Marion's Sister |
| 1909 | His Lost Love | Actress | Mary |