Mary Pickford
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.
Acting (214 movies)
The Temptress
1911
The Sealed Room
1909
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
1932
Sunshine Sue
1910
Yesterday and Today
1953
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
1930
Stella Maris
1918
Daddy-Long-Legs
1919
Tess of the Storm Country
1922
The Pride of the Clan
1917
Sparrows
1926
My Best Girl
1927
Cinderella
1914
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
Coquette
1929
Suds
1920
The Poor Little Rich Girl
1917
Hollywood
1923
Through The Back Door
1921
Pollyanna
1920
The Old Actor
1912
Little Annie Rooney
1925
The Hoodlum
1919
The New York Hat
1912
From Farm to Fame
1922
Kiki
1931
A Little Princess
1917
A Good Little Devil
1914
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
1918
The Little Darling
1909
So Near, Yet So Far
1912
The Mender of Nets
1912
Wilful Peggy
1910
The Renunciation
1909
A Beast at Bay
1912
Friends
1912
The Narrow Road
1912
The School Teacher and the Waif
1912
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
1924
Mary Pickford
2005
Tess of the Storm Country
1914
Madame Butterfly
1915
A Romance of the Redwoods
1917
100% American
1918
M'Liss
1918
Heart o' the Hills
1919
Johanna Enlists
1918
The Unchanging Sea
1910
The Love Light
1921
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1921
A Kiss from Mary Pickford
1927
Ramona
1910
Rosita
1923
As It Is in Life
1910
An Arcadian Maid
1910
The Dream
1911
What the Daisy Said
1910
Poor Little Peppina
1916
The Mountaineer's Honor
1909
Sweet Memories
1911
In Old Madrid
1911
The Violin Maker of Cremona
1909
Hollywood Hobbies
1939
Secrets
1933
The Little American
1917
The Eternal Grind
1916
Fanchon, the Cricket
1915
The Taming of the Shrew
1929
The Mirror
1911
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917
Hearts Adrift
1914
Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush'
2003
Captain Kidd, Jr.
1919
How Could You, Jean?
1918
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
1933
Pippa Passes
1909
Getting Even
1909
The Son's Return
1909
A Manly Man
1911
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
2000
The Lonely Villa
1909
A Pueblo Legend
1912
The Gibson Goddess
1909
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
2023
The Light That Came
1909
The Country Doctor
1909
Her First Biscuits
1909
A Strange Meeting
1909
The Black Pirate
1926
The Broken Locket
1909
Love Among the Roses
1910
The Indian Runner's Romance
1909
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
1917
The Italian Barber
1911
The Way of Man
1909
The Awakening
1909
Artful Kate
1911
Such a Little Queen
1914
One of Many
1927
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
1909
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Awakening | 1909 | Screenplay |
| The Day After | 1909 | Writer |
| May and December | 1910 | Writer |
| The Medallion | 1911 | Screenplay |
| Madame Rex | 1911 | Writer |
| Caught in the Act | 1911 | Screenplay |
| Lena and the Geese | 1912 | Screenplay |
| Hearts Adrift | 1914 | Writer |
| Poor Little Peppina | 1916 | Producer |
| Less Than the Dust | 1916 | Producer |
| The Little American | 1917 | Producer |
| A Little Princess | 1917 | Producer |
| How Could You, Jean? | 1918 | Producer |
| Johanna Enlists | 1918 | Executive Producer |
| Daddy-Long-Legs | 1919 | Producer |
| The Hoodlum | 1919 | Executive Producer |
| Pollyanna | 1920 | Producer |
| Suds | 1920 | Producer |
| The Love Light | 1921 | Producer |
| Through The Back Door | 1921 | Producer |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | 1921 | Producer |
| Tess of the Storm Country | 1922 | Producer |
| Garrison's Finish | 1923 | Writer |
| Rosita | 1923 | Producer |
| Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall | 1924 | Producer |
| Little Annie Rooney | 1925 | Writer |
| Little Annie Rooney | 1925 | Producer |
| Sparrows | 1926 | Producer |
| My Best Girl | 1927 | Producer |
| Coquette | 1929 | Producer |
| Secrets | 1933 | Executive Producer |
| One Rainy Afternoon | 1936 | Producer |
| The Gay Desperado | 1936 | Producer |
| Little Iodine | 1946 | Executive Producer |
| White Cradle Inn | 1947 | Producer |
| Stork Bites Man | 1947 | Producer |
| Sleep, My Love | 1948 | Producer |
| Love Happy | 1949 | Executive Producer |