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Mary Pickford
Gladys Louise Smith, baptised as Gladys Marie Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian American film actress and producer. A pioneer in the American film industry with a Hollywood career spanning five decades, Pickford was one of the most popular actresses of the silent film era. Beginning her film career in 1909, Pickford became Hollywood's first millionaire by 1916, and, at t…
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business · Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979) · film producer · film actor · film director · screenwriter · writer · stage actor · actor · producer · businessperson · director · also Mary Pickford, Gladys Marie Smith, Gladys Louise Smith, Gladys Mary Moore, Gladys Moore, Gladys Smith
Born 8 April 1892 · Died 29 May 1979 · Q104109
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2026· 4 entries
KESQ: Mary Pickford Presents Resident Evil
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Yahoo: Emotional Intelligence Quote Of The Week By Mary Pickford: On Negativity
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Forbes: Emotional Intelligence Quote Of The Week By Mary Pickford: On Negativity
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Mary Pickford and Frances Marion: A Friendship That Created Hollywood
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insider.si.edu: Mary Pickford : queen of the movies / edited by Christel Schmidt
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2019· 2 entries
JSTOR: Mary Pickford Knew Not to Take the First Offer
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TIFF announced Mati Diop as the recipient of the first Mary Pickford Award, an award "for outstanding female talent"
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2018· 1 entry
WAMC: Audrey Kupferberg: Mary Pickford Films
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2017· 1 entry
PBS: Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford
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2009· 1 entry
The Hollywood Reporter: Mary Pickford film series set
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2008· 1 entry
Variety: Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
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2005· 1 entry
Variety: Mary Pickford
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2003· 1 entry
Ronnie recalled that "Things didn't work out that much, you know
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (1999).
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The American Film Institute named Pickford as the 24th-greatest female star of Classical Hollywood Cinema
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1993· 1 entry
“pure accident. I walked right into it. While we were building the theatre, I accidentally happened to step in some soft concrete. And there it was. So, I went to Mary Pickford immediately. Mary put her foot into it”
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1989· 1 entry
“Widely attributed in this form (e.g., A. Scott Berg, Goldwyn: A Biography (1989), Ch. 11) and described as having been said in the 1920s, but the 18 March 1934 AP story quotes it as said that day.”
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1979· 14 entries
Pickford died at a Santa Monica hospital of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage she had suffered the week before
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Died 1979-05-29.
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“Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theater for? An emotional exercise. And no preachment.”
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“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
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“Variant: Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”
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“[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.”
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“Les pel·lícules sonores són com posar pintallavis a la Venus de Milo.”
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“I am no longer in pictures for money. I am in them because I love them. I am not in vain. I do not care about giving a smashing personal performance. My one ambition is to create fine entertainment.”
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“Allò que anomenem fracàs no és caure sinó romandre-hi.”
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“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”
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“The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.”
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“He estat una actriu. Ara vull ser una bona actriu.”
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“I heard Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I've loved mine, there can be no short cuts. [citation needed]”
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“Crec que el cinema és una empresa meravellosa i sempre l'estimarè però no sé si m'estimarà sempre.”
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1976· 3 entries
In consideration of her contributions to American cinema
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The Academy sent a TV crew to her house to record her short statement of thanks—offering the public a very rare glimpse into Pickfair Manor
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Received an Academy Honorary Award for her contribution to American film
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1975).
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1970· 1 entry
Agreed to donate 50 of her Biograph films to the American Film Institute
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1968· 1 entry
“Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By ... (1968), p. 134”
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1955· 2 entries
Published her memoirs, Sunshine and Shadow
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And Pickford followed suit in 1956, selling her remaining shares for $3 million
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1948· 3 entries
In 1948, Pickford and Rogers built a seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 6,050-square-foot (562 m2) estate on 2.12 acres (8,600 m2) at the B Bar H Ranch, California, where they lived and then later sold.
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As a radio and television studio facility and was bought by the Academy to house the Center
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Pickford and Rogers built a seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 6,050-square-foot (562 m2) estate on 2
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1943· 1 entry
And 20 bricks were sent to Pickford in California
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1940· 1 entry
The Fund was able to purchase land and build the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, in Woodland Hills, California
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1937· 1 entry
Pickford married her third and last husband, actor and band leader Charles "Buddy" Rogers
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1936· 2 entries
“Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial), appeared in St. Petersburg Times, 25 January 1936, sect. 2, p. 3”
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Became vice-president of United Artists and continued to produce films for others, including One Rainy Afternoon (1936), The Gay Desperado (1936), Sleep, My Love (1948; with Claudette Colbert), and Love Happy (1949),
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1934· 3 entries
An essay on spirituality and personal growth, My Rendezvous with Life (1935), an essay on death and her belief in an afterlife and also a novel in 1935, The Demi-Widow
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In the play The Church Mouse and went on tour in 1935, starting in Seattle with the stage version of Coquette
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“Associated Press, "Mary Pickford Sees Talkies as Lipstick on Milo", Los Angeles Times, 18 March 1934, p. 1. Cf. "Los Angeles Times", 20 March 1934, p. A4: "Talking pictures are like lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.”
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1933· 3 entries
Underwent a Technicolor screen test for an animated/live-action film version of Alice in Wonderland, but Walt Disney discarded the project when Paramount Pictures released its own version of the book
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After the beginning of Fairbanks' romance with Sylvia, Lady Ashley, which became public in 1934
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Following three costly failures with her last film appearance being Secrets
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1932· 2 entries
Pickford spearheaded the "Payroll Pledge Program", a payroll-deduction plan for studio workers who gave one-half of one percent of their earnings to the MPRF
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That Pickford was an American citizen
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Coquette (1930).
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1928· 1 entry
The Dodge Brothers Hour was broadcast from Pickford's bungalow, featuring Fairbanks, Chaplin, Norma Talmadge, Gloria Swanson, John Barrymore, D
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1926· 1 entry
“How Mary Pickford Stays Young", Reader's Digest, Vol. 5 (1926); condensed from an interview in Everybody's Magazine (28 May 1926)”
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1924· 2 entries
Visited her birth home and was photographed for postcards
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“Herbert Howe, "Mary Pickford's Favorite Stars and Films". Photoplay, January 1924, p. 28-29. (Photoplay Publishing Company).”
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1921· 1 entry
The Motion Picture Relief Fund (MPRF) was officially incorporated, with Joseph Schenck voted its first president and Pickford its vice president
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1920· 5 entries
In what was described as the "marriage of the century" and they were referred to as the King and Queen of Hollywood
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After she agreed to his $100,000 demand for a settlement ($1
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Pickford's film Pollyanna grossed around US$1,100,000 (equivalent to $17,678,571 in 2025)
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Two years before the Cable Act of 1922 required a naturalization process for married female partners of U
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Pickford divorced Moore on March 2, 1920, after she agreed to his $100,000 demand for a settlement ($1.5 million in 2023, adjusted for inflation).
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1919· 3 entries
Co-founded United Artists alongside Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D
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Increased her power by co-founding United Artists (UA) with Charlie Chaplin, D
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Pickford established The Mary Pickford Company, which was devoted exclusively to producing films distributed by United Artists
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1918· 2 entries
Around this time, Pickford also suffered from the flu during the 1918 flu pandemic.
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To promote Liberty Bond sales for the World War I effort
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1916· 5 entries
Pickford signed a new contract with Zukor that granted her full authority over the production of the films in which she starred, and a record-breaking salary of $10,000 a week
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Pickford and Constance Adams DeMille, wife of director Cecil B
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Pickford's films were distributed singly through a special distribution unit called Artcraft
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Had a similarly spellbinding pull with critics and the audience
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When she was under contract to Zukor's Famous Players in Famous Plays (later Paramount)
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1915· 1 entry
Rebuilt, demolished in 1931), while their mother played the organ
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1913· 1 entry
Showed the play's Broadway actors reciting every line of dialogue, resulting in a stiff film that Pickford later called "one of the worst [features] I ever made
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1911· 1 entry
She married Owen Moore, an Irish-born silent film actor, on January 7, 1911.
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1909· 2 entries
Pickford became Hollywood's first millionaire by 1916, and, at the height of her career, had complete creative control of her films and was one of the most recognizable women in the world
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Her savings from the Broadway production ran out, and at her mother's suggestion to try getting a part in a motion picture, she went to the Biograph Company studio in New York, not expecting any success to come of it
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1906· 1 entry
Gladys, Lottie, and Jack Smith supported singer Chauncey Olcott on Broadway in Edmund Burke
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1905· 1 entry
Played the boy Freckles in Hal Reid's The Gypsy Girl on tour, and at the Star Theatre on Broadway
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1902· 1 entry
Pickford regularly returned
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1901· 1 entry
The family moved to the United States to pursue theatre as a family enterprise
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1898· 2 entries
From a fatal blood clot caused by a workplace accident when he was a purser with Niagara Steamship
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Charlotte Smith began taking in boarders, one of whom was a Mr
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1892· 2 entries
Born 1892-04-08.
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At 211 (later 561) University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, at Victoria Hospital, renamed the Hospital for Sick Children in 1951
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