Mary Pickford
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.
Born: April 7, 1892
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known For
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Rags
Mary Pickford plays "Rags," a pretty but wild girl who defends her alcoholic father a disgraced bank cashier, no matter how he mistreats her. Enter a handsome engineer whose family had once fired Rag's father for theft. Rags falls in love but realizes that marriage is a hopeless proposition considering her lowly place in society. But when she learns that her father plans to rob the newcomer, Rags betrays him to the sheriff, and he is shot in the ensuing battle.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous and adored icons of the 20th century. Like no other Hollywood star, she won the hearts of millions around the world. It's been said that: "Monroe played the best game with the worst hand." Her journey to stardom stemmed from a childhood of poverty, neglect, and loneliness. 'Fascination' tells the remarkable story of Marilyn's life. From birth to her premature death she endured criticism, insecurities, drug dependence, numerous miscarriages, and three broken marriages. Despite all her demons, her unprecedented beauty, talent and quick wit amazed all that came before her.
The Pride of the Clan
Donald MacTavish, the last chieftain of his clan on an island off the coast of Scotland, dies at sea. This leaves his only daughter, Marget, to assume the responsibilities of leadership. Marget's burden is partially eased by her blossoming romance with Jamie Campbell. But there is a secret from Jamie's past that neither of them know about.
Birth of the Tramp
A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot.
The Women Who Run Hollywood
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances Marion wrote screenplays for the Hollywood Star Mary Pickford and won two Oscars, Dorothy Arzner was the most powerful film director in Hollywood. And what do all of them have in common? They are all women and they have all been forgotten. Incredibly, it also took until 2010 for the first woman, Kathryn Bigelow, to win the Oscar for Best Director. Even if underrepresented women have always played a big part in Hollywood and it is this part of the film history left untold that this documentary sets out to uncover.
Sparrows
Molly, the eldest child of a group of orphans being used as slaves on a farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.
My Best Girl
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.
Mary Pickford
It was the golden age of silent film, and she was the world's most celebrated actress. Known as America's sweetheart, Mary Pickford was famous for playing darling girls and feisty young women in wildly popular films seen around the globe. Her love affair with Hollywood's leading man, Douglas Fairbanks, turned her into an icon of glamour and romance, the Hollywood dream come true. But, as Mary would learn in the most painful way, fame is fickle and life at the top is precarious.
Filmography
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self/Archival Footage
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
as Self
as Herself(archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Dora (Archive Footage)
as Herself
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton
as Self (uncredited)
as (archive footage)
as Kiki
as Mary Pickford
as Caterina
as Norma Besant
as The Virgin Mary
as Maggie Johnson
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Molly
as Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
as Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney
as Dorothy Vernon
as Rosita
as Mary Pickford
as Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner
as Mary Pickford
as Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
as Jeanne Bodamere
as Angela Carlotti
as Amanda Afflick
as Pollyanna Whittier
as Mavis Hawn
as Amy Burke
as Judy Abbott
as Mary MacTavish
as Mayme
as Johanna Renssaller
as Jean Mackaye
as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
as Amarilly Jenkins
as Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
as Sara Crewe
as Rebecca Randall
as Angela Moore
as Jenny Lawrence
as Gwen
as Marget MacTavish
as Radha
as Hulda
as Louise
as Peppina
as Molly O
as Cho-Cho-San
as Jane Stuart
as Esmeralda Rogers
as Rags / Alice McCloud
as 'Little Pal'
as Glad
as Fanchon, the Cricket
as Nell Gwyn
as Cinderella
as Dolly Lane
as Queen Anna Victoria
as Anemone Breckenridge
as Tessibel Skinner
as Juliet
as Nina
as Mercy Baxter
as Nance Olden
as Jessie - the Slavey
as Mary Harding, the Daughter
as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
as The Wife
as The Wife
as The Daughter
as The Young Woman
as Dora - the Orphan
as The Indian Girl
as Faro Kate
as The Rich Italian's Daughter
as Mrs. Jim Holcomb
as The Widow's Daughter
as Nora, the Waif
as Lena
as The Young Woman
as The Young Woman
as The Mexican Girl
as The Old Actor's Daughter
as The Woman
as The Miner's Wife's Sister
as The Mexican Girl
as Iola
as Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
as The Little Net-Mender
as Little Red Riding Hood
as Mary
as Mrs. Kirby
as Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
as Unknown Role
as Grace
as Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
as Princess Gilda
as Hadee
as Haidee
as Lucille Allen
as Polly Biblett
as Lola
as Artful Kate Stanley
as Agnes Boyd
as Ruth
as Dorothy
as Elsie Keene
as Nell Herbert
as Alice
as Mae Darcy
as Tessie
as Edith
as Dove Eyes
as Miss Wilkins
as The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
as Mary
as Bessie
as Masie
as Mabel
as Peggy
as Mary
as Invalid Daughter
as The Arcadian Maid
as A Messenger
as Martha
as Mabel Brown
as Grace
as May
as The Wife's Friend
as Mabel
as Ramona
as A Mexican
as The Lacemaker
as The Daughter as an Adult
as Daughter (Adult)
as Myrtle
as Alice Vance
as The Young Woman
as Agnes Hailey
as An Extra
as Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
as Daisy
as Alice Ashford
as Mary
as Woman on Sidewalk
as Second Couple
as Mary
as Girl in crowd
as The Widow's Daughter
as Partygoer
as Ruth King
as Miss Lucy
as Messenger's Sister
as A Lady-in-Waiting
as Little Darling
as Bessie
as The Maid
as Blue Cloud's Wife
as Bessie Wright
as Bessie
as A Slave Girl
as Alice
as Kittie Ryan
as Nellie
as A Disguised Servant
as Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
as The Maid / In Pawnshop
as Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
as On street/In store
as Biscuit Victim
as At party
as Mary
as Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
as A young woman in the street
as Marion's Sister