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)

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

Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler as Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford as Self/Archival Footage

2004

Elf: Christmas in Tinseltown as Self (archive)

2003

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

2002

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

1988

American Experience as Self
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1982

Hollywood’s Children as Self (archive footage)

1980

Hollywood 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)
Stork Bites Man ... (Producer)
White Cradle Inn ... (Producer)

1946

Little Iodine ... (Executive Producer)

1942

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 as Self

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

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

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Secrets as Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton

1932

Hollywood on Parade No. A-4 as Self (uncredited)

1931

The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
Kiki as Kiki

1930

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

1929

The Taming of the Shrew as Caterina
Coquette as Norma Besant

1927

A Kiss from Mary Pickford as Self (archive footage)
My Best Girl as Maggie Johnson
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

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

1920

Pollyanna as Pollyanna Whittier
Suds as Amanda Afflick

1919

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

1918

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

1917

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

1916

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

1915

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

1914

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

1913

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

1912

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

1911

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

1910

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

1909

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