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
2020
- Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts as Self - Actress (archive footage)
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
- Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler as Self (archive footage)
- Mary Pickford as Self/Archival 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
- 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
1988
- American Experience as Self
- Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies as (archive footage) (uncredited)
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)
1967
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
- Stork Bites Man ... (Producer)
- White Cradle Inn ... (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
- 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
- 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
- Coquette as Norma Besant
- The Taming of the Shrew as Caterina
1927
- A Kiss from Mary Pickford as Self (archive footage)
- The Gaucho as The Virgin Mary
- My Best Girl as Maggie Johnson
- 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
- Little Lord Fauntleroy as Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
- The Love Light as Angela Carlotti
- Through the Back Door as Jeanne Bodamere
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
- Stella Maris as Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
- Johanna Enlists as Johanna Renssaller
- M'Liss as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
- How Could You, Jean? as Jean Mackaye
- Cupid Angling
- Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley as Amarilly Jenkins
- 100% American as Mayme
1917
- The Little American as Angela Moore
- The Poor Little Rich Girl as Gwen
- A Romance of the Redwoods as Jenny Lawrence
- A Little Princess as Sara Crewe
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm as Rebecca Randall
- All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
- The Pride of the Clan as Marget MacTavish
1916
- Less Than the Dust as Radha
- Hulda from Holland as Hulda
- The Foundling as Molly O
- Poor Little Peppina as Peppina
- The Eternal Grind as Louise
1915
- Rags as Rags / Alice McCloud
- Fanchon, the Cricket as Fanchon, the Cricket
- Esmeralda as Esmeralda Rogers
- The Dawn of a Tomorrow as Glad
- The Foundling as Molly O
- Little Pal as 'Little Pal'
- A Girl of Yesterday as Jane Stuart
- Madame Butterfly as Cho-Cho-San
- Mistress Nell as Nell Gwyn
1914
- Cinderella as Cinderella
- Hearts Adrift as Nina
- The Eagle's Mate as Anemone Breckenridge
- A Good Little Devil as Juliet
- Such a Little Queen as Queen Anna Victoria
- Tess of the Storm Country as Tessibel Skinner
- Behind the Scenes as Dolly Lane
1913
- In the Bishop's Carriage as Nance Olden
- The Unwelcome Guest as Jessie - the Slavey
- Caprice as Mercy Baxter
1912
- So Near, Yet So Far as The Young Woman
- Home Folks as The Young Woman
- The Narrow Road as Mrs. Jim Holcomb
- A Pueblo Legend as The Indian Girl
- The School Teacher and the Waif as Nora, the Waif
- A Feud in the Kentucky Hills as The Daughter
- Iola's Promise as Iola
- A Beast at Bay as The Young Woman
- The Inner Circle as The Rich Italian's Daughter
- Just Like a Woman as The Young Woman
- Friends as Dora - the Orphan
- My Baby as The Wife
- The New York Hat as Mary Harding, the Daughter
- The Mender of Nets as The Little Net-Mender
- The Old Actor as The Old Actor's Daughter
- The One She Loved as The Wife
- The Informer as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
- A Timely Repentance as Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
- The Female of the Species as The Miner's Wife's Sister
- With the Enemy's Help as Faro Kate
- Honor Thy Father as Mary Fuller
- Won by a Fish as The Woman
- Lena and the Geese as Lena
- A Lodging for the Night as The Mexican Girl
- Fate's Interception as The Mexican Girl
- An Indian Summer as The Widow's Daughter
1911
- The Toss of a Coin as Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
- Little Red Riding Hood as Little Red Riding Hood
- Three Sisters as Mary
- His Dress Shirt as Mrs. Kirby
- The Temptress as Lucille Allen
- When the Cat's Away as Dorothy, The Wife
- When a Man Loves as Tessie
- The Sentinel Asleep as Unknown Role
- Back to the Soil as Sadie Allen
- Madame Rex ... (Writer)
- The Dream as Nell Herbert
- A Gasoline Engagement as Flora Powell
- The Convert as Agnes Boyd
- While There is hope, There is Life as Unknown Role
- The Courting of Mary as Mary
- Science as Mrs. Crawford
- Tracked as Unknown Role
- At a Quarter of Two as Mrs Warren
- The Master and the Man as Elsie Graham
- The Lighthouse Keeper as Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
- Sweet Memories as Polly Biblett
- The Fisher-Maid as Paula, The Fishing-Maid
- The Message in the Bottle as Louise Spencer
- Caught in the Act ... (Screenplay)
- Maid or Man as Elsie Keene
- Behind the Stockade as Florence Williams
- The Caddy's Dream as Miss Kelsomine
- The Call of the Song as Amy Gordon
- For Her Brother's Sake as Madge Spotwood
- A Decree of Destiny as Mary
- The Secret of the Palm as Edna
- Artful Kate as Artful Kate Stanley
- The Mirror as Dorothy
- The Portrait as Little Vera - the Model
- Their First Misunderstanding as Mae Darcy
- The Fair Dentist as Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist
- A Manly Man as Lola
- 'Tween Two Loves as Grace
- The Better Way as Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
- For the Queen's Honor as Princess Gilda
- The Rose's Story as Unknown Role
- In the Sultan's Garden as Hadee
- Love Heeds Not Showers as Mary
- The Italian Barber as Alice
- As a Boy Dreams
- Second Sight as Gertrude Edgar
- How Mary Fixed it as Mary
- The Stampede as Nello
- The Medallion as Rumored
- From the Bottom of the Sea as Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)
- Her Darkest Hour as Ruth
- In Old Madrid
- The Skating Bug as The Girl
1910
- Ramona as Ramona
- The Unchanging Sea as The Daughter as an Adult
- What the Daisy Said as Martha
- The Call to Arms as A Messenger
- In the Season of Buds as Mabel
- When We Were in Our 'Teens as Mary
- A Victim of Jealousy as The Wife's Friend
- The Newlyweds as Alice Vance
- The Sorrows of the Unfaithful as Mary
- Wilful Peggy as Peggy
- All on Account of the Milk as The Young Woman
- An Arcadian Maid as The Arcadian Maid
- A Romance of the Western Hills
- A Lucky Toothache as Bessie
- The Smoker as George's Wife
- The Thread of Destiny as Myrtle
- The Song of the Wildwood Flute as Dove Eyes
- A Child's Impulse as Grace
- Muggsy Becomes a Hero as Mabel
- A Gold Necklace as Masie
- Love Among the Roses as The Lacemaker
- Simple Charity as Miss Wilkins
- A Plain Song as Edith
- That Chink at Golden Gulch
- Muggsy's First Sweetheart as Mabel Brown
- Waiter No. 5 as The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
- Sunshine Sue
- The Usurer as Invalid Daughter
- The Twisted Trail as Molly Hendricks
- White Roses as Betty
- As It Is in Life as Daughter (Adult)
- The Englishman and the Girl as The Girl
- May and December as May
- Never Again as The Girl
- The Woman from Mellon's as Mary Petersby
- The Two Brothers as A Mexican
- A Rich Revenge as Jennie
1909
- The Necklace as The Maid / In Pawnshop
- The Sealed Room as A Lady-in-Waiting
- The Renunciation as Kittie Ryan
- The Faded Lilies as At party
- The Peachbasket Hat as On street/In store
- A Strange Meeting
- The Cardinal's Conspiracy as A Disguised Servant
- Her First Biscuits as Biscuit Victim
- The Little Darling as Little Darling
- The Heart of an Outlaw as The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult
- What's Your Hurry? as Mary
- The Country Doctor as Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
- To Save Her Soul as Agnes Hailey
- The Seventh Day as The Maid
- Two Memories as Marion's Sister
- The Trick that Failed as Nellie Burt
- Tender Hearts as Nellie
- The Indian Runner's Romance as Blue Cloud's Wife
- His Duty as A young woman in the street
- The Lonely Villa
- The Restoration as Alice Ashford
- The Mexican Sweethearts as The Señorita
- The Mountaineer's Honor as Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
- The Gibson Goddess as Woman on Sidewalk
- 1776, or The Hessian Renegades as Messenger's Sister
- The Awakening as The Widow's Daughter
- Sweet and Twenty as Alice
- The Light That Came as Daisy
- The Way of Man as Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
- Oh, Uncle! as Bessie
- Through the Breakers as An Extra
- The Slave as A Slave Girl
- The Broken Locket as Ruth King
- Pippa Passes as Girl in crowd
- The Violin Maker of Cremona as Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
- Lines of White on a Sullen Sea as Second Couple
- In the Watches of the Night as Girl at Henry Brainard's
- The Son's Return as Mary
- His Lost Love as Mary
- A Midnight Adventure as Eleanor
- A Sweet Revenge
- In Old Kentucky as Partygoer
- The Test as Bessie
- They Would Elope as Bessie
- Getting Even as Miss Lucy
- What Drink Did
- His Wife's Visitor as Bessie Wright
- The Day After ... (Writer)
- The Little Teacher as The Little Teacher