Mary Pickford

Known for Acting

Mary Pickford's portrait

Details

Birthday: April 07, 1892

Deathday: May 29, 1979

Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

Actress

2023

Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse

2020

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

2017

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

2016

The Women Who Run Hollywood

2013

Birth of the Tramp

2012

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

2010

Sigrid Holmquist

2008

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

2007

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

2005

Mary Pickford

2005

Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler

2003

Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush

2003

Murders of Hollywood

2002

D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913

2002

The Tramp and the Dictator

2000

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

1998

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

1995

The Casting Couch

1988

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1985

What Do Those Old Films Mean?

1982

Hollywood’s Children

1976

Hooray for Hollywood

1967

Mondo Hollywood

1963

Anniversary

1961

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

1953

Yesterday and Today

1947

The Way of the World

1942

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

1941

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1939

Hollywood Hobbies

1934

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove

1934

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10

1933

Secrets

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

1932

Hollywood on Parade No. A-4

1931

Kiki

1931

The House That Shadows Built

1930

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5

1930

The Voice of Hollywood

1929

Coquette

1929

The Taming of the Shrew

1927

My Best Girl

1927

A Kiss from Mary Pickford

1927

One of Many

1927

The Gaucho

1926

Sparrows

1926

The Black Pirate

1925

Little Annie Rooney

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

1924

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

1924

Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm

1923

Hollywood

1923

Rosita

1922

Tess of the Storm Country

1922

From Farm to Fame

1921

Through the Back Door

1921

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1921

The Love Light

1920

Suds

1920

Pollyanna

1919

Daddy-Long-Legs

1919

The Hoodlum

1919

Heart o' the Hills

1919

Captain Kidd, Jr.

1918

Stella Maris

1918

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

1918

Johanna Enlists

1918

100% American

1918

M'Liss

1918

How Could You, Jean?

1918

Cupid Angling

1917

The Pride of the Clan

1917

The Poor Little Rich Girl

1917

A Little Princess

1917

A Romance of the Redwoods

1917

The Little American

1917

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1917

All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan

1916

Poor Little Peppina

1916

The Eternal Grind

1916

Less Than the Dust

1916

The Foundling

1916

Hulda from Holland

1915

Madame Butterfly

1915

Fanchon, the Cricket

1915

A Girl of Yesterday

1915

Rags

1915

Esmeralda

1915

Mistress Nell

1915

The Dawn of a Tomorrow

1915

Little Pal

1915

The Foundling

1914

Cinderella

1914

A Good Little Devil

1914

Tess of the Storm Country

1914

Hearts Adrift

1914

Such a Little Queen

1914

The Eagle's Mate

1914

Behind the Scenes

1913

In the Bishop's Carriage

1913

Caprice

1913

The Unwelcome Guest

1912

The Old Actor

1912

The New York Hat

1912

So Near, Yet So Far

1912

The Mender of Nets

1912

A Beast at Bay

1912

Friends

1912

The Narrow Road

1912

The School Teacher and the Waif

1912

A Pueblo Legend

1912

The Female of the Species

1912

A Lodging for the Night

1912

The Informer

1912

My Baby

1912

The One She Loved

1912

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

1912

Honor Thy Father

1912

The Inner Circle

1912

With the Enemy's Help

1912

Lena and the Geese

1912

An Indian Summer

1912

Won by a Fish

1912

Just Like a Woman

1912

Home Folks

1912

Iola's Promise

1912

A Timely Repentance

1912

Fate's Interception

1911

The Temptress

1911

The Dream

1911

In Old Madrid

1911

Sweet Memories

1911

The Mirror

1911

A Manly Man

1911

The Italian Barber

1911

Artful Kate

1911

As a Boy Dreams

1911

For Her Brother's Sake

1911

The Master and the Man

1911

Their First Misunderstanding

1911

The Lighthouse Keeper

1911

Back to the Soil

1911

For the Queen's Honor

1911

In the Sultan's Garden

1911

In the Sultan's Garden

1911

When a Man Loves

1911

Three Sisters

1911

Maid or Man

1911

When the Cat's Away

1911

A Gasoline Engagement

1911

Science

1911

At a Quarter of Two

1911

Her Darkest Hour

1911

A Decree of Destiny

1911

The Convert

1911

The Fisher-Maid

1911

The Message in the Bottle

1911

The Secret of the Palm

1911

Tracked

1911

While There is hope, There is Life

1911

Second Sight

1911

The Stampede

1911

The Skating Bug

1911

The Call of the Song

1911

The Toss of a Coin

1911

The Fair Dentist

1911

The Courting of Mary

1911

Love Heeds Not Showers

1911

Little Red Riding Hood

1911

The Caddy's Dream

1911

'Tween Two Loves

1911

The Rose's Story

1911

How Mary Fixed it

1911

His Dress Shirt

1911

The Sentinel Asleep

1911

The Better Way

1911

The Portrait

1911

Behind the Stockade

1911

From the Bottom of the Sea

1911

The Medallion

1910

Sunshine Sue

1910

Wilful Peggy

1910

The Unchanging Sea

1910

An Arcadian Maid

1910

Ramona

1910

As It Is in Life

1910

What the Daisy Said

1910

Love Among the Roses

1910

The Thread of Destiny

1910

A Romance of the Western Hills

1910

In the Season of Buds

1910

The Woman from Mellon's

1910

The Twisted Trail

1910

The Englishman and the Girl

1910

The Smoker

1910

The Two Brothers

1910

All on Account of the Milk

1910

A Rich Revenge

1910

The Newlyweds

1910

Never Again

1910

A Victim of Jealousy

1910

May and December

1910

Muggsy's First Sweetheart

1910

A Child's Impulse

1910

The Call to Arms

1910

A Lucky Toothache

1910

A Lucky Toothache

1910

The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

1910

Muggsy Becomes a Hero

1910

When We Were in Our 'Teens

1910

A Gold Necklace

1910

Waiter No. 5

1910

Simple Charity

1910

The Song of the Wildwood Flute

1910

A Plain Song

1910

White Roses

1910

The Usurer

1910

That Chink at Golden Gulch

1909

The Sealed Room

1909

A Sweet Revenge

1909

The Little Darling

1909

The Renunciation

1909

The Mountaineer's Honor

1909

The Violin Maker of Cremona

1909

Pippa Passes

1909

Getting Even

1909

The Son's Return

1909

The Lonely Villa

1909

The Gibson Goddess

1909

The Light That Came

1909

The Country Doctor

1909

Her First Biscuits

1909

A Strange Meeting

1909

The Broken Locket

1909

The Indian Runner's Romance

1909

The Awakening

1909

The Way of Man

1909

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

1909

Two Memories

1909

Sweet and Twenty

1909

The Little Teacher

1909

His Wife's Visitor

1909

The Peachbasket Hat

1909

His Duty

1909

The Faded Lilies

1909

The Necklace

1909

The Mexican Sweethearts

1909

Tender Hearts

1909

The Slave

1909

They Would Elope

1909

The Cardinal's Conspiracy

1909

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

1909

Oh, Uncle!

1909

The Seventh Day

1909

In the Watches of the Night

1909

In Old Kentucky

1909

His Lost Love

1909

What's Your Hurry?

1909

The Test

1909

The Trick that Failed

1909

The Heart of an Outlaw

1909

A Midnight Adventure

1909

The Restoration

1909

Through the Breakers

1909

To Save Her Soul

1909

What Drink Did

Director

1924

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

Writer

1925

Little Annie Rooney

1923

Garrison's Finish

1914

Hearts Adrift

1911

Madame Rex

1910

May and December

1909

The Day After