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

2016

The Women Who Run Hollywood as Self (archive footage)

2014

Astrid 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)

2004

Elf: Christmas in Tinseltown as Self (archive)

2003

Murders of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush as Self (archive footage)

2002

The Tramp and the Dictator as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Decasia: The State of Decay as Self (archive footage)

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)

1995

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch

1994

100 Years at the Movies as Self (archive footage)

1988

American Experience as Self
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1982

Hollywood’s Children as Self (archive footage)

1976

Hooray for Hollywood as Self (archive footage)

1967

Mondo Hollywood

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

The Way of the World as Dora (Archive Footage)
White Cradle Inn ... (Producer)
Stork Bites Man ... (Producer)

1946

Little Iodine ... (Executive Producer)

1942

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 as Herself

1941

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)

1939

Hollywood Hobbies as Self (uncredited)

1936

The Gay Desperado ... (Producer)
One Rainy Afternoon ... (Producer)

1934

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove as Self
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10 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

The Voice of Hollywood as Self/Queen of the Movies
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 as Mary Pickford

1929

Coquette as Norma Besant
The Taming of the Shrew as Caterina

1927

My Best Girl as Maggie Johnson
A Kiss from Mary Pickford as Self (archive footage)
The Gaucho as The Virgin Mary
One of Many as Self (archive footage)

1926

The Black Pirate as Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Sparrows as Molly

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Little Annie Rooney as Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney

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

The Love Light as Angela Carlotti
Little Lord Fauntleroy as Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
Through the Back Door as Jeanne Bodamere

1920

Pollyanna as Pollyanna Whittier
Suds as Amanda Afflick

1919

Heart o' the Hills as Mavis Hawn
The Hoodlum as Amy Burke
Captain Kidd, Jr. as Mary MacTavish
Daddy-Long-Legs as Judy Abbott

1918

100% American as Mayme
Cupid Angling
M'Liss as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
Stella Maris as Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
How Could You, Jean? as Jean Mackaye
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley as Amarilly Jenkins
Johanna Enlists as Johanna Renssaller

1917

The Pride of the Clan as Marget MacTavish
The Little American as Angela Moore
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm as Rebecca Randall
The Poor Little Rich Girl as Gwen
A Little Princess as Sara Crewe
A Romance of the Redwoods as Jenny Lawrence
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan

1916

Less Than the Dust as Radha
The Eternal Grind as Louise
Hulda from Holland as Hulda
The Foundling as Molly O
Poor Little Peppina as Peppina

1915

Esmeralda as Esmeralda Rogers
Mistress Nell as Nell Gwyn
Madame Butterfly as Cho-Cho-San
Rags as Rags / Alice McCloud
The Foundling as Molly O
Fanchon, the Cricket as Fanchon, the Cricket
The Dawn of a Tomorrow as Glad
A Girl of Yesterday as Jane Stuart
Little Pal as 'Little Pal'

1914

Cinderella as Cinderella
A Good Little Devil as Juliet
Such a Little Queen as Queen Anna Victoria
Behind the Scenes as Dolly Lane
Tess of the Storm Country as Tessibel Skinner
Hearts Adrift as Nina
The Eagle's Mate as Anemone Breckenridge

1913

Caprice as Mercy Baxter
The Unwelcome Guest as Jessie - the Slavey
In the Bishop's Carriage as Nance Olden

1912

The Informer as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
So Near, Yet So Far as The Young Woman
The Female of the Species as The Miner's Wife's Sister
The New York Hat as Mary Harding, the Daughter
Friends as Dora - the Orphan
The One She Loved as The Wife
Just Like a Woman as The Young Woman
My Baby as The Wife
The School Teacher and the Waif as Nora, the Waif
A Beast at Bay as The Young Woman
The Narrow Road as Mrs. Jim Holcomb
A Pueblo Legend as The Indian Girl
The Mender of Nets as The Little Net-Mender
The Old Actor as The Old Actor's Daughter
A Lodging for the Night as The Mexican Girl
A Timely Repentance as Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills as The Daughter
Won by a Fish as The Woman
Lena and the Geese as Lena
With the Enemy's Help as Faro Kate
The Inner Circle as The Rich Italian's Daughter
Home Folks as The Young Woman
Fate's Interception as The Mexican Girl
Iola's Promise as Iola
An Indian Summer as The Widow's Daughter
Honor Thy Father as Mary Fuller

1911

Science as Mrs. Crawford
Three Sisters as Mary
A Decree of Destiny as Mary
The Dream as Nell Herbert
Sweet Memories as Polly Biblett
For Her Brother's Sake as Madge Spotwood
The Mirror as Dorothy
In Old Madrid
When a Man Loves as Tessie
The Medallion as Rumored
Back to the Soil as Sadie Allen
Love Heeds Not Showers as Mary
The Message in the Bottle as Louise Spencer
Little Red Riding Hood as Little Red Riding Hood
The Fisher-Maid as Paula, The Fishing-Maid
The Courting of Mary as Mary
The Better Way as Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
The Lighthouse Keeper as Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
In the Sultan's Garden as Hadee
A Manly Man as Lola
While There is hope, There is Life as Unknown Role
At a Quarter of Two as Mrs Warren
The Rose's Story as Unknown Role
For the Queen's Honor as Princess Gilda
The Secret of the Palm as Edna
The Sentinel Asleep as Unknown Role
The Toss of a Coin as Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
Madame Rex ... (Writer)
Artful Kate as Artful Kate Stanley
Maid or Man as Elsie Keene
The Fair Dentist as Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist
The Italian Barber as Alice
As a Boy Dreams
Behind the Stockade as Florence Williams
Tracked as Unknown Role
A Gasoline Engagement as Flora Powell
Her Darkest Hour as Ruth
The Caddy's Dream as Miss Kelsomine
From the Bottom of the Sea as Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)
Their First Misunderstanding as Mae Darcy
The Portrait as Little Vera - the Model
His Dress Shirt as Mrs. Kirby
When the Cat's Away as Dorothy, The Wife
The Stampede as Nello
'Tween Two Loves as Grace
The Temptress as Lucille Allen
The Convert as Agnes Boyd
The Master and the Man as Elsie Graham
Second Sight as Gertrude Edgar
Caught in the Act ... (Screenplay)
The Call of the Song as Amy Gordon
The Skating Bug as The Girl
How Mary Fixed it as Mary

1910

The Call to Arms as A Messenger
The Usurer as Invalid Daughter
Ramona as Ramona
The Englishman and the Girl as The Girl
A Lucky Toothache as Mary
The Unchanging Sea as The Daughter as an Adult
A Victim of Jealousy as The Wife's Friend
What the Daisy Said as Martha
The Two Brothers as A Mexican
A Child's Impulse as Grace
The Thread of Destiny as Myrtle
Waiter No. 5 as The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
The Song of the Wildwood Flute as Dove Eyes
Muggsy's First Sweetheart as Mabel Brown
That Chink at Golden Gulch
The Newlyweds as Alice Vance
White Roses as Betty
An Arcadian Maid as The Arcadian Maid
As It Is in Life as Daughter (Adult)
The Smoker as George's Wife
A Plain Song as Edith
A Romance of the Western Hills
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful as Mary
Wilful Peggy as Peggy
In the Season of Buds as Mabel
The Twisted Trail as Molly Hendricks
Love Among the Roses as The Lacemaker
The Woman from Mellon's as Mary Petersby
All on Account of the Milk as The Young Woman
Muggsy Becomes a Hero as Mabel
May and December as May
When We Were in Our 'Teens as Mary
An Affair of Hearts as Extra
Simple Charity as Miss Wilkins
Sunshine Sue
A Gold Necklace as Masie
A Rich Revenge as Jennie
Never Again as The Girl

1909

The Renunciation as Kittie Ryan
1776, or The Hessian Renegades as Messenger's Sister
The Son's Return as Mary
The Cardinal's Conspiracy as A Disguised Servant
The Lonely Villa
To Save Her Soul as Agnes Hailey
The Mountaineer's Honor as Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
The Sealed Room as A Lady-in-Waiting
In the Watches of the Night as Girl at Henry Brainard's
The Trick that Failed as Nellie Burt
Her First Biscuits as Biscuit Victim
The Violin Maker of Cremona as Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
What's Your Hurry? as Mary
His Lost Love as Mary
The Little Teacher as The Little Teacher
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea as Second Couple
The Gibson Goddess as Woman on Sidewalk
The Way of Man as Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
The Necklace as The Maid / In Pawnshop
The Restoration as Alice Ashford
The Little Darling as Little Darling
Pippa Passes as Girl in crowd
His Duty as A young woman in the street
They Would Elope as Bessie
The Broken Locket as Ruth King
Getting Even as Miss Lucy
A Strange Meeting
The Awakening as The Widow's Daughter
The Heart of an Outlaw as The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult
The Light That Came as Daisy
The Mexican Sweethearts as The Señorita
The Slave as A Slave Girl
The Seventh Day as The Maid
Oh, Uncle! as Bessie
Sweet and Twenty as Alice
The Faded Lilies as At party
His Wife's Visitor as Bessie Wright
In Old Kentucky as Partygoer
The Day After ... (Writer)
Through the Breakers as An Extra
Two Memories as Marion's Sister
The Indian Runner's Romance as Blue Cloud's Wife
A Sweet Revenge
Tender Hearts as Nellie
The Peachbasket Hat as On street/In store
What Drink Did
A Midnight Adventure as Eleanor
The Country Doctor as Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
The Test as Bessie