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Mary Pickford

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1892-04-08

Deathday: 1979-05-29 (87 years old)

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.

Filmography

all 295

Movies 294

self 34

Producer 29

Writer 4

Screenplay 4

TV Shows 1

Self

Mary Pickford

Biography

Filmography

all 295

Movies 294

self 34

Producer 29

Writer 4

Screenplay 4

TV Shows 1

Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse (2023)

Chaplin vs the FBI (2019)

I, Douglas Fairbanks (2018)

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)

The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016)

Birth of the Tramp (2013)

Sigrid Holmquist (2010)

Smash His Camera (2010)

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)

Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)

Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler (2005)

Garbo (2005)

Mary Pickford (2005)

Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush' (2003)

D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 (2002)

The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)

Decasia: The State of Decay (2002)

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (2000)

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998)

American Experience (1988)

Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me (1988)

What Do Those Old Films Mean? (1985)

The Flapper Story (1985)

Hollywood’s Children (1982)

Hooray for Hollywood (1976)

The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War (1975)

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)

Project XX: The Innocent Years (1957)

Yesterday and Today (1953)

Love Happy (1949)

Let's Go to the Movies (1949)

Sleep, My Love (1948)

Stork Bites Man (1947)

White Cradle Inn (1947)

Susie Steps Out (1946)

Little Iodine (1946)

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941)

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)

Hollywood Hobbies (1939)

The Gay Desperado (1936)

One Rainy Afternoon (1936)

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)

A Penny a Peep (1934)

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933)

Secrets (1933)

Hollywood on Parade No. A-4 (1932)

The House That Shadows Built (1931)

Kiki (1931)

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 (1930)

The Voice of Hollywood (1930)

Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 21 (1930)

Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 14 (1930)

The Taming of the Shrew (1929)

Coquette (1929)

The Gaucho (1927)

One of Many (1927)

My Best Girl (1927)

A Kiss from Mary Pickford (1927)

Sparrows (1926)

The Black Pirate (1926)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

Little Annie Rooney (1925)

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924)

Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm (1924)

Rosita (1923)

Hollywood (1923)

Garrison's Finish (1923)

Tess of the Storm Country (1922)