Mary Pickford
Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)
Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), (known professionally as Mary Pickford) was a Canadian silent movie actress. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Coquette. She was married to actor Charles "Buddy" Rogers.
Mary Pickford | |
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 Pickford in 1910 | |
| Born | Gladys Louise Smith[1] April 8, 1892 |
| Died | May 29, 1979 (aged 87) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Burial place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California |
| Citizenship | British subject (1892–1978) Canada (1978–1979)[2] |
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| Years active | 1900–1955 |
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| Political party | Republican |
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| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Charlotte Hennessey and John Charles Smith |
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| Awards | Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| Website | Mary Pickford Foundation |
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Pickford was co-founder of United Artists. She was one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She married silent movie star Douglas Fairbanks. They lived in a Hollywood home called Pickfair.
She was called "America's Sweetheart" during the silent film era, and is on the list of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars. She is put as the 24th-top female star from the Classical Hollywood Cinema era.[3][4][5]
References
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change- ↑ Biography, pbs.org. Accessed December 20, 2023.
- ↑ Photoplay, Volume 18, Issues 2–6. Macfadden Publications. 1920. p. 99.
- ↑ Baldwin, Douglas; Baldwin, Patricia (2000). The 1930s. Weigl. p. 12. ISBN 1-896990-64-9.
- ↑ Flom, Eric L. (2009). Silent Film Stars on the Stages of Seattle: A History of Performances by Hollywood Notables. McFarland. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-7864-3908-9.
- ↑ Sonneborn, Liz (2002). A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts. Infobase. p. 166. ISBN 1-4381-0790-0.
Sources
change- Balio, Tino (1985). The American Film Industry. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-09873-5. Total pages: 680.
Further reading
change- Schmidt, Christel, ed. (2013). Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies. Library of Congress/University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-3647-9.
- Schmidt, Christel (2003). "Preserving Pickford: The Mary Pickford Collection and the Library of Congress". The Moving Image. 3 (1). Association of Moving Image Archivists: 59–81. doi:10.1353/mov.2003.0013. S2CID 191609277.(subscription required)
- Harris, Gloria G.; Hannah S. Cohen (2012). "Chapter 10. Entertainers". Women Trailblazers of California: Pioneers to the Present. Charleston, SC: The History Press. pp. 151–65 [163–66]. ISBN 978-1609496753.
- Petersen, Anne (2014). Scandals of Classic Hollywood. Penguin Publishing.
- Gladys goes to Hollywood at 100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces, by Merna Forster, via Google Books, pp. 204 sq.
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- About Mary Pickford, from the Mary Pickford Foundation website
- Mary Pickford CBC Radio interview May 25, 1959
- Mary Pickford at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- Footage of Mary Pickford with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks in 1919
- Mary Pickford at Virtual History
- Mary Pickford–Buddy Rogers correspondence, 1943–1976, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Mary Pickford scrapbook, 1915–1917, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Mary Pickford papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Mary Pickford – Whose Real Name is Gladys Smith from Current Opinion Magazine, June, 1918