Mary Pickford
Born: 1892-04-07 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: 1979-05-29
Known For: Acting
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
2023
2017
- Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2016
- The Women Who Run Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Birth of the Tramp as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Sigrid Holmquist as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
2008
- Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies as Self (archive footage)
2007
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2005
- Mary Pickford as Self/Archival Footage
- Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush' as Self (archive footage)
- Murders of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2002
- The Tramp and the Dictator as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
2000
- Mary Pickford: A Life on Film as Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
- Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
1988
1985
- What Do Those Old Films Mean? as Herself(archive footage)
1982
- Hollywood’s Children as Self (archive footage)
1976
- Hooray for Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1963
- Anniversary as Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
1961
- The Legend of Rudolph Valentino as Self (archive footage)
1953
- Yesterday and Today as (archive footage)
1949
- Love Happy ... (Executive Producer)
1948
- Sleep, My Love ... (Producer)
1947
- White Cradle Inn ... (Producer)
- Stork Bites Man ... (Producer)
- The Way of the World as Dora (Archive Footage)
1946
- Little Iodine ... (Executive Producer)
1942
- Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 as Herself
1940
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
1939
- Hollywood Hobbies as Self (uncredited)
1936
- One Rainy Afternoon ... (Producer)
- The Gay Desperado ... (Producer)
1934
- Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove as Self
1933
- Secrets as Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1932
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-4 as Self (uncredited)
1931
- Kiki as Kiki
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
1930
- Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 as Mary Pickford
- The Voice of Hollywood as Self/Queen of the Movies
1929
- Coquette as Norma Besant
- The Taming of the Shrew as Caterina
1927
- The Gaucho as The Virgin Mary
- A Kiss from Mary Pickford as Self (archive footage)
- My Best Girl as Maggie Johnson
- One of Many as Archive footage
1926
- Sparrows as Molly
- The Black Pirate as Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1925
- Little Annie Rooney as Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1924
- Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall as Dorothy Vernon
- Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm
1923
- Hollywood as Mary Pickford
- Rosita as Rosita
- Garrison's Finish ... (Writer)
1922
- Tess of the Storm Country as Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner
- From Farm to Fame as Mary Pickford
1921
- Little Lord Fauntleroy as Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
- Through The Back Door as Jeanne
- The Love Light as Angela Carlotti
1919
- Heart o' the Hills as Mavis Hawn
- Captain Kidd, Jr. as Mary MacTavish
- The Hoodlum as Amy Burke
- Daddy-Long-Legs as Judy Abbott
1918
- Johanna Enlists as Johanna Renssaller
- How Could You, Jean? as Jean Mackaye
- Stella Maris as Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
- Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley as Amarilly Jenkins
- M'Liss as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
- Cupid Angling
- 100% American as Mayme
1917
- A Little Princess as Sara Crewe
- The Little American as Angela Moore
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm as Rebecca Randall
- The Poor Little Rich Girl as Gwen
- A Romance of the Redwoods as Jenny Lawrence
- The Pride of the Clan as Marget MacTavish
- All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
1916
- Poor Little Peppina as Peppina
- Hulda from Holland as Hulda
- Less Than the Dust as Radha
- The Eternal Grind as Louise
- The Foundling as Molly O
1915
- Little Pal as 'Little Pal'
- Esmeralda as Esmeralda Rogers
- Rags as Rags / Alice McCloud
- The Foundling as Molly O
- Mistress Nell as Nell Gwyn
- Fanchon, the Cricket as Fanchon, the Cricket
- The Dawn of a Tomorrow as Glad
- Madame Butterfly as Cho-Cho-San
- A Girl of Yesterday as Jane Stuart
1914
- Cinderella as Cinderella
- Tess of the Storm Country as Tessibel Skinner
- Behind the Scenes as Dolly Lane
- The Eagle's Mate as Anemone Breckenridge
- A Good Little Devil as Juliet
- Hearts Adrift as Nina
- Such a Little Queen as Queen Anna Victoria
1913
- Caprice as Mercy Baxter
- In the Bishop's Carriage as Nance Olden
- The Unwelcome Guest as Jessie - the Slavey
1912
- My Baby as The Wife
- The Old Actor as The Old Actor's Daughter
- A Beast at Bay as The Young Woman
- So Near, Yet So Far as The Young Woman
- Friends as Dora - the Orphan
- A Pueblo Legend as The Indian Girl
- The New York Hat as Mary Harding, the Daughter
- The School Teacher and the Waif as Nora, the Waif
- The Mender of Nets as The Little Net-Mender
- A Feud in the Kentucky Hills as The Daughter
- The One She Loved as The Wife
- Just Like a Woman as The Young Woman
- Won by a Fish as The Woman
- The Female of the Species as The Miner's Wife's Sister
- The Inner Circle as The Rich Italian's Daughter
- With the Enemy's Help as Faro Kate
- The Narrow Road as Mrs. Jim Holcomb
- The Informer as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
- Honor Thy Father as Mary Fuller
- An Indian Summer as The Widow's Daughter
- A Lodging for the Night as The Mexican Girl
- Fate's Interception as The Mexican Girl
- Lena and the Geese as Lena
- Iola's Promise as Iola
- A Timely Repentance as Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
- Home Folks as The Young Woman
1911
- The Dream as Nell Herbert
- The Courting of Mary as Mary
- Sweet Memories as Polly Biblett
- Little Red Riding Hood as Little Red Riding Hood
- The Fair Dentist as Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist
- The Better Way as Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
- Three Sisters as Mary
- For the Queen's Honor as Princess Gilda
- Back to the Soil as Sadie Allen
- Their First Misunderstanding as Mae Darcy
- Behind the Stockade as Florence Williams
- In Old Madrid
- The Fisher-Maid as Paula, The Fishing-Maid
- A Manly Man as Lola
- For Her Brother's Sake as Madge Spotwood
- Madame Rex ... (Writer)
- When a Man Loves as Tessie
- The Master and the Man as Elsie Graham
- A Decree of Destiny as Mary
- Love Heeds Not Showers as Mary
- Artful Kate as Artful Kate Stanley
- 'Tween Two Loves as Grace
- The Skating Bug as The Girl
- A Gasoline Engagement as Flora Powell
- The Call of the Song as Amy Gordon
- Maid or Man as Elsie Keene
- The Portrait as Little Vera - the Model
- In the Sultan's Garden as Hadee
- The Temptress as Lucille Allen
- The Message in the Bottle as Louise Spencer
- The Caddy's Dream as Miss Kelsomine
- The Italian Barber as Alice
- Tracked as Unknown Role
- The Convert as Agnes Boyd
- The Lighthouse Keeper as Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
- From the Bottom of the Sea as Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)
- The Secret of the Palm as Edna
- Science as Mrs. Crawford
- Caught in the Act ... (Screenplay)
- The Stampede as Nello
- At a Quarter of Two as Mrs Warren
- The Toss of a Coin as Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
- The Mirror as Dorothy
- Her Darkest Hour as Ruth
- How Mary Fixed it as Mary
- As a Boy Dreams
- Second Sight as Gertrude Edgar
- The Rose's Story as Unknown Role
- The Sentinel Asleep as Unknown Role
- His Dress Shirt as Mrs. Kirby
- While There is hope, There is Life as Unknown Role
- The Medallion ... (Screenplay)
- When the Cat's Away as Dorothy, The Wife
1910
- Sunshine Sue
- The Usurer as Invalid Daughter
- Wilful Peggy as Peggy
- The Unchanging Sea as The Daughter as an Adult
- An Arcadian Maid as The Arcadian Maid
- White Roses as Betty
- The Song of the Wildwood Flute as Dove Eyes
- The Sorrows of the Unfaithful as Mary
- What the Daisy Said as Martha
- A Lucky Toothache as Mary
- In the Season of Buds as Mabel
- Waiter No. 5 as The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
- A Child's Impulse as Grace
- A Rich Revenge as Jennie
- Muggsy's First Sweetheart as Mabel Brown
- Muggsy Becomes a Hero as Mabel
- A Gold Necklace as Masie
- Never Again as The Girl
- The Twisted Trail as Molly Hendricks
- Ramona as Ramona
- As It Is in Life as Daughter (Adult)
- The Call to Arms as A Messenger
- All on Account of the Milk as The Young Woman
- When We Were in Our 'Teens as Mary
- A Romance of the Western Hills
- The Woman from Mellon's as Mary Petersby
- The Two Brothers as A Mexican
- The Englishman and the Girl as The Girl
- A Plain Song as Edith
- Love Among the Roses as The Lacemaker
- A Victim of Jealousy as The Wife's Friend
- The Thread of Destiny as Myrtle
- The Newlyweds as Alice Vance
- That Chink at Golden Gulch
- May and December as May
- Simple Charity as Miss Wilkins
- The Smoker as George's Wife
1909
- Getting Even as Miss Lucy
- The Necklace as The Maid / In Pawnshop
- Pippa Passes as Girl in crowd
- Tender Hearts as Nellie
- Oh, Uncle! as Bessie
- The Restoration as Alice Ashford
- The Slave as A Slave Girl
- Two Memories as Marion's Sister
- The Awakening as The Widow's Daughter
- The Lonely Villa
- The Renunciation as Kittie Ryan
- The Sealed Room as A Lady-in-Waiting
- The Cardinal's Conspiracy as A Disguised Servant
- The Indian Runner's Romance as Blue Cloud's Wife
- The Light That Came as Daisy
- Through the Breakers as An Extra
- The Broken Locket as Ruth King
- The Country Doctor as Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
- A Strange Meeting
- Sweet and Twenty as Alice
- The Way of Man as Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
- The Mountaineer's Honor as Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
- The Day After ... (Writer)
- 1776, or The Hessian Renegades as Messenger's Sister
- They Would Elope as Bessie
- The Little Darling as Little Darling
- The Gibson Goddess as Woman on Sidewalk
- What Drink Did
- Her First Biscuits as Biscuit Victim
- To Save Her Soul as Agnes Hailey
- The Heart of an Outlaw as The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult
- The Son's Return as Mary
- The Violin Maker of Cremona as Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
- The Mexican Sweethearts as The Señorita
- His Lost Love as Mary
- What's Your Hurry? as Mary
- The Seventh Day as The Maid
- His Wife's Visitor as Bessie Wright
- The Peachbasket Hat as On street/In store
- In Old Kentucky as Partygoer
- The Little Teacher as The Little Teacher
- The Trick that Failed as Nellie Burt
- A Midnight Adventure as Eleanor
- A Sweet Revenge
- In the Watches of the Night as Girl at Henry Brainard's
- The Faded Lilies as At party
- Lines of White on a Sullen Sea as Second Couple
- His Duty as A young woman in the street
- The Test as Bessie