Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was a 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.
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. The American Film Institute named Pickford 24th among the greatest female stars of all time.
Mary Pickford Media
Bust of Mary Pickford on University Avenue, near her Toronto birthplace
Mary Pickford, 1914–1915 (digitally restored)
Mary Pickford, The Photo-Play Journal, June 1916
A lobby card for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
Mary Pickford giving President Herbert Hoover a ticket for a film industry benefit for the unemployed, 1931
Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith, with whom Mary Pickford founded United Artists in 1919
Bungalow Mary Pickford War Funds, 1943
Mary Pickford, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left
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Other websites
Media related to Mary Pickford at Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Pickford at the Internet Broadway Database
- Mary Pickford on IMDb
- Mary Pickford at the TCM Movie Database
- About Mary Pickford Archived 2007-06-09 at the Wayback Machine, from the website of the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education
- Mary Pickford CBC Radio interview May 25, 1959
- Footage of Mary Pickford with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks in 1919
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