PICKFORD, MARY

1893–1979, American movie actress, b. Toronto, Ont. In 1909 she began working with D. W. Griffith. Specializing in playing young girls, she was dubbed "America's Sweetheart." Her films include A Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), Pollyanna (1919), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921), and Tess of the Storm Country (1922). In 1919 she cofounded the distribution firm United Artists with Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks, her husband. She produced her own films thereafter. She won an Academy Award for Coquette (1929), her first movie with sound. She retired from acting in 1933, but continued to produce films for United Artists.

See her autobiography (1955); biographies by R. Windeler (1974) and E. Whitfield (1997); K. Brownlow, Mary Pickford Rediscovered (1999).

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books on: Pickford Mary  - 577 results

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Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait
Book by Lyman P. Powell; Macmillan, 1930
Subjects: Christian Science, Eddy, Mary Baker--1821-1910
...Christian Science, 37 ; eminent London surgeon, 245 Pickford, Mary, 34 Pierce, Franklin, little Marys estimate of, 59...American Magazine , 280 Pope, Alexander, 61 , 64 ; Mary Bakers verses to Andrew Gault in Popean style, 65...
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Mary Garden's Story
Book by Mary Garden, Louis Biancolli; Simon and Schuster, 1951
Subjects: Musicians--Correspondence, Reminiscences, Etc
...like me. I had to talk. Just marching around and moving my hands smothered me as an artist. The young ones like Mary Pickford--they went on and charmed people with their sweet youth and prettiness; but a great actress had no place in the...
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A Far Cry
Book by Mary Benson; Viking, 1989
Subjects: Apartheid, Benson, Mary, South Africa--Politics And Government--20th Century
...hand in hand with Poppy from the bright sun of Andries Street into the dark of the Grand Theatre, where ringleted Mary Pickford smiled and wept and Douglas Fairbanks leapt from balconies. Then, with the talkies, each Friday night in the two...
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Mass Communication: Principles and Practices
Book by Mary B. Cassata, Molefi K. Asante; Macmillan, 1979
Subjects: Communication--Psychological Aspects, Communication--Social Aspects, Mass Media--Law And Legislation, Mass Media--Political Aspects, Mass Media--Psychological Aspects, Mass Media--Social Aspects
...Paley, William, 128 Palmer, Roger Cain, 73 , 77 Parson, Donn, 50 Paul, Robert, 146 Peterson, Theodore, 78 Pickford, Mary, 157 Pierce, Frederick S., 221 Pingree, Suzanne, 211 Plato, 219 Poitier, Sidney, 158 Pool de Sola, Ithiel...
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The Death of a Disease: A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis
Book by Bernard Seytre, Mary Shaffer; Rutgers University Press, 2005
Subjects: Poliomyelitis Vaccine--History, Poliomyelitis--History
...42, 91 Pasteur-Lassen Center, 43 Paul, John, 24, 38, 46, 50, 73-74, 80 Perkins, Frank, 95 Peru, 3, 115 5 Petricciani, John, 98 Pfizer, 88, 100 physical therapy, 15-16, 17-21 Pickford, Mary, 37 plaster casts, 21
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journal articles on: Pickford Mary  - 89 results

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'A New and Exceedingly Brilliant Star': L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and Mary Miles Minter
Journal article by Faye Hammill; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: Fictitious characters--Influence, Minter, Mary Miles--Criticism and interpretation, Minter, Mary Miles--Performances, Montgomery, L.M.--Criticism and interpretation, Montgomery, L.M.--Works, Motion picture actors and actresses--Criticism and interpretation, Motion picture actors and actresses--Performances, Movie actors--Criticism and interpretation, Movie actors--Performances
...Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and Mary Miles Minter. by Faye Hammill Following...both L. M. Montgomery and the actress Mary Miles Minter found themselves being reinvented...refuge from American modernity. In 1919 Mary Miles Minter played Anne in the first film...
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Too Much Guilt is Never Enough for Working Mothers: Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce, and Mommie Dearest
Journal article by Mary Beth Haralovich; Velvet Light Trap, Vol. not cited, 1992
Subjects: Motion Pictures
...Franchot Tone. Newsweek explains how Crawford married "into Hollywood royalty . . . and was royally snubbed" by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. In her marriage to Tone, a "patrician . . . of the Social Register and Cornell University...
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Vérard's Editions of Tristan
Journal article by Mary Beth Winn; Arthuriana, Vol. 19, 2009
Subjects: Literary criticism, Medieval history, Medieval literature, Writers
Verards Editions of Tristan by Mary Beth Winn Anthoine Verard was a major figure in the French book...Benoist Rigaud in 1577 and in Paris by Nicolas Bonfons in 1586. As Pickford estimated, some 3000 copies must have been produced by Verard...
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Women in Between: Filmic Representations of Gender, Race, and Nation in Ramona (1910) and the Barrier (1917) during the Progressive Era
Journal article by Dominique Bregent-Heald; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 31, 2010
Subjects: Canadian native peoples--Portrayals, Film adaptations--Criticism and interpretation, Movie adaptations--Criticism and interpretation, Progressive Era, ca. 1890-1924--Social aspects, Progressivism (United States politics)--Social aspects, Ramona (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, The Barrier (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation
...materials for Ramona, the Canadian-born Mary Pickford (nee Gladys Smith) played the lead role. Pickford would later become one of the most popular...position of power within the film industry, Pickford routinely played roles that characterized...
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Typecasting
Journal article by Pamela Robertson Wojcik; Criticism, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Actors--Analysis, Actors--Criticism and interpretation, Actresses--Analysis, Actresses--Criticism and interpretation
...Portmans threat, silent film star Mary Pickford, explaining why she left the screen...first Florence Lawrence and then Mary Pickford are recognized as Biograph...97. (3.) Kevin Brownlow, "Mary Pickford," in The Parades Gone...
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America's Savvy Sweetheart: Mary Pickford
Magazine article by Anna Maria Gillis; Humanities, Vol. 26, January 2005
Subjects: Actors, Personal profiles, Pickford, Mary (1893-1979)
Americas Savvy Sweetheart: Mary Pickford by Anna Maria Gillis IN THE ROUGH...movie moguls met their match in Mary Pickford. "She had no education, and yet...says film producer Kathryn Dietz. Pickford, the tiny, doe-eyed actress...
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Pickford - the Woman Who Made Hollywood
Magazine article by George Turner; American Cinematographer, Vol. 78, December 1997
Pickford - the Woman Who Made Hollywood by George Turner Pickford - The Woman Who Made Hollywood by Eileen Whitfield...Kentucky, 492 pps., cloth, $25 There were years when Mary Pickford was the best-known and most admired woman in the...
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The Cult of Marys
Magazine article by Victoria Moore; New Statesman, Vol. 127, September 18, 1998
Subjects: Cocktails--Analysis
...girl seizing life by the Bloody Mary. Thats me. The last one...I have made the usual Bloody Mary mistake of thinking its just...finding the notional Bloody Mary more desirable than the real...the coquettish film star Mary Pickford, but Bloody Mary didnt get...
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How Our Great-grandparents Saw the Movies
Magazine article by Ronica Roth; Humanities, Vol. 25, January 2004
Subjects: Entertainment technology & design, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film, Historic preservation, Motion pictures, National Endowment for the Humanities
...became immersed in the Hollywood scene, making seventeen films in four years and marrying playboy Jack Pickford, brother of actress Mary Pickford. At twenty-one, Olive died in Paris of poisoning. Speculation as to whether it was accidental or...
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Lyman Broening, Asc-pioneer Cinematographer
Magazine article by Marc Wanamaker, James Forsher; American Cinematographer, Vol. 64, August 1983
...THE BISHOPS CARRIAGE (both with Mary Pickford); THE LOST PARADISE (With H...movie star coming in from Biograph, Mary Pickford. You probably never heard...pictures." Broening first photographed Mary Pickford at the Famous Players studio...
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Pickford Recalled in 'Rich Girl'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 17, 2009
Subjects: Pickford, Mary
Pickford Recalled in Rich Girl. Byline: Gary Arnold, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Mary Pickford (1892-1979) began acting professionally...gypsies over the next decade, a period Miss Pickford recalled as our endless odyssey of the...
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Couple Seized over Poison Deaths of Five at Care Home; (1) Quizzed: Care Home Owners Leigh Baker and Wife Rachel Are Suspected of Murdering Elderly Residents (2) Victim: The Remains of Nellie Pickford, 89, Were Exhumed
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 10, 2007
Subjects: Murder
...Elderly Residents (2) Victim: The Remains of Nellie Pickford, 89, Were Exhumed. Byline: JUSTIN DAVENPORT THE...Avon and Somerset police exhumed the body of Nellie"Mary" Pickford, 89, from Glastonbury Cemetery. A week later the...
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Plenty of Horror, Gore Packed into Reissues; Also Pickford, Bow: Salute 'The General' despite Colorization
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 22, 1999
...packed into reissues; also Pickford, Bow: Salute The General despite...shocker, Childs Play, and Mary Steenburgen and Roddy McDowall...90th anniversary of early icon Mary Pickfords first screen appearance...vid debuts of five remastered Pickford pictures: 1918s Amarilly of...
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Pure-Hearted Tess Opens the Eyes of the Rich
Newspaper article; The Gympie Times (Gympie, Australia), May 13, 2011
Subjects: Film and video production companies, Pickford, Mary, Rich, Rich people, Universal Studios Inc., Video production companies
...Tess Opens the Eyes of the Rich. MARY Pickford, the actress who in the silent...powerful story of survival, Mary Pickford plays Tessibel Skinner, a dirt...Like so many films in which Mary Pickford appears, Tess of the Storm Country...
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Exhumation at Midnight; First of Three Bodies Will Be Taken for Tests in Care Home Deaths Probe at Midnight
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 6, 2007
Subjects: Pickford, Mary--Investigations
...last night. The remains of Nellie Mary Pickford were being removed from a graveyard...expected to last three hours. Mrs Pickford lived at the Parkfields Residential...conduct a private burial and Mrs Pickford can be returned to her resting...
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encyclopedia articles on: Pickford Mary  - 6 results

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Pickford, Mary
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PICKFORD, MARY 1893 1979, American movie actress, b. Toronto, Ont. In 1909 she...by R. Windeler (1974) and E. Whitfield (1997); K. Brownlow, Mary Pickford Rediscovered (1999). ____________________ Copyright...
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Fairbanks, Douglas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), and The Thief of Bagdad (1924). He was married (1920 35) to Mary Pickford , and together with Charlie Chaplin and D. W. Griffith they formed United Artists studio. See biographies by R...
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Lubitsch, Ernst
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...both released in 1919. Lubitsch made more than 40 German films before he was invited to the United States to direct Mary Pickford in Rosita (1923). He became a Hollywood favorite, making Lady Windermeres Fan (1925), The Patriot (1928...
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Griffith, D. W
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...persistence of racial and social prejudice through the ages. In 1919, with Charlie Chaplin , Douglas Fairbanks , and Mary Pickford , he founded United Artists. Among his films, frequently alternating between historical spectacles and modest domestic...
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Motion Pictures
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...or "genres," of subject matter. The first generation of star actors included Charlie Chaplin , Buster Keaton , Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks , Marie Dressler , Lillian Gish , William S. Hart, Greta Garbo , John Gilbert, Claudette Colbert...
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