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Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford

Biography

Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1894 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian actress resident in the U.S., and also producer, screenwriter and film studio founder, who was a pioneer in the US film industry with a Hollywood career that spanned five decades.

Pickford alongside her future husband, actor-producer Douglas Fairbanks, founded Pickford–Fairbanks Studios and United Artists, and was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Pickford is considered to be one of the most recognisable women in history. Known as "America's Sweetheart" during the silent film era, she is named on the list of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars as the 24th-top female star from the Classical Hollywood Cinema era 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. She was one of the earliest stars to be billed under her own name, and was one of the most popular actresses of the 1910s and 1920s, earning the nickname "Queen of the Movies." She is credited with having defined the ingénue type in cinema.

She was awarded the second Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound film role in Coquette (1929). By the late 1920s, Pickford's career went into decline. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 1976 in consideration of her contributions to American cinema.

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

310

Gender

Female

Birthday

1892-04-07

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Also Known As

Baby Gladys, Gladys Marie Smith, Catherine Hennessey, Dorothy Nicholson, Gladys Nicholson, Baby Gladys Smith, مری پیکفورد, America's Sweetheart

Known For

The Temptress The Sealed Room Hollywood on Parade No. A-4 Sunshine Sue Yesterday and Today Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 Stella Maris Daddy-Long-Legs Tess of the Storm Country The Pride of the Clan Sparrows My Best Girl Cinderella The Legend of Rudolph Valentino Coquette Suds The Poor Little Rich Girl Hollywood Through the Back Door Pollyanna The Old Actor Little Annie Rooney The Hoodlum The New York Hat From Farm to Fame Kiki A Little Princess A Good Little Devil Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley Sweet Revenge The Little Darling So Near, Yet So Far The Mender of Nets Wilful Peggy The Renunciation A Beast at Bay Friends The Narrow Road The School Teacher and the Waif Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Mary Pickford Tess of the Storm Country Madame Butterfly A Romance of the Redwoods 100% American Johanna Enlists M'Liss Heart o' the Hills The Unchanging Sea Little Lord Fauntleroy The Love Light A Kiss from Mary Pickford Rosita Ramona An Arcadian Maid As It Is in Life The Dream What the Daisy Said Poor Little Peppina The Mountaineer's Honor The Violin Maker of Cremona Sweet Memories In Old Madrid Hollywood Hobbies Secrets The Little American The Eternal Grind Fanchon, the Cricket The Taming of the Shrew The Mirror Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Hearts Adrift Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush Captain Kidd, Jr. How Could You, Jean? Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 Pippa Passes Getting Even The Son's Return A Manly Man Mary Pickford: A Life on Film The Lonely Villa A Pueblo Legend The Gibson Goddess Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse The Country Doctor The Light That Came Her First Biscuits A Strange Meeting The Black Pirate Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm The Broken Locket The Indian Runner's Romance Love Among the Roses All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan The Italian Barber The Way of Man The Awakening Artful Kate Such a Little Queen One of Many Lines of White on a Sullen Sea Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove The Voice of Hollywood Two Memories Sweet and Twenty As a Boy Dreams Less Than the Dust The Little Teacher The Thread of Destiny A Romance of the Western Hills For Her Brother's Sake All on Account of the Milk The Woman from Mellon's The Englishman and the Girl The Newlyweds The Twisted Trail The Smoker A Rich Revenge The Two Brothers In the Season of Buds The Master and the Man A Victim of Jealousy Never Again May and December Muggsy's First Sweetheart A Child's Impulse Their First Misunderstanding The Lighthouse Keeper Back to the Soil The Call to Arms When We Were in Our 'Teens The Sorrows of the Unfaithful Muggsy Becomes a Hero A Gold Necklace A Lucky Toothache In the Bishop's Carriage The Foundling The Gaucho Hulda from Holland A Girl of Yesterday Rags Waiter No. 5 Simple Charity The Song of the Wildwood Flute Caprice A Plain Song White Roses Esmeralda In the Sultan's Garden For the Queen's Honor The Female of the Species When a Man Loves Maid or Man Three Sisters When the Cat's Away The Eagle's Mate A Gasoline Engagement His Wife's Visitor A Decree of Destiny Her Darkest Hour The Convert Behind the Scenes At a Quarter of Two Science Tracked The Message in the Bottle The Secret of the Palm The Fisher-Maid Mistress Nell His Duty The Faded Lilies The Peachbasket Hat The Mexican Sweethearts The Necklace Tender Hearts The Cardinal's Conspiracy The Slave They Would Elope The Dawn of a Tomorrow The Stampede While There is hope, There is Life Second Sight Oh, Uncle! The Seventh Day 1776, or The Hessian Renegades In Old Kentucky His Lost Love A Lodging for the Night In the Watches of the Night What's Your Hurry? The Skating Bug The Call of the Song The Toss of a Coin The Unwelcome Guest Little Pal The Fair Dentist The Restoration A Midnight Adventure The Trick that Failed Through the Breakers The Test To Save Her Soul The Heart of an Outlaw The Informer The Courting of Mary Love Heeds Not Showers My Baby The One She Loved A Feud in the Kentucky Hills Little Red Riding Hood The Caddy's Dream Honor Thy Father With the Enemy's Help The Inner Circle An Indian Summer Lena and the Geese 'Tween Two Loves Home Folks Won by a Fish Just Like a Woman Iola's Promise The Rose's Story The Sentinel Asleep The Better Way His Dress Shirt The Portrait How Mary Fixed it A Timely Repentance Fate's Interception Cavalcade of the Academy Awards Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists The Tramp and the Dictator The Foundling Sigrid Holmquist Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema The House That Shadows Built Birth of the Tramp The Women Who Run Hollywood Behind the Stockade From the Bottom of the Sea Cupid Angling Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts Hollywood’s Children The Usurer That Chink at Golden Gulch Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler Hooray for Hollywood What Drink Did Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe Murders of Hollywood Anniversary The Way of the World The Medallion Mondo Hollywood Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty Hollywood on Parade No. B-10 The Casting Couch Decasia: The State of Decay An Affair of Hearts Elf: Christmas in Tinseltown The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies Charmed Lives: A Family Romance The Gay Desperado One Rainy Afternoon The Day After Madame Rex Sleep, My Love Garrison's Finish White Cradle Inn Stork Bites Man
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