Mary Pickford
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.
Known for
American Experience
Self
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
Self (uncredited)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hooray for Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Convert
Agnes Boyd
The Restoration
Alice Ashford
The Smoker
George's Wife
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
The Daughter
Mondo Hollywood
The Violin Maker of Cremona
Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Mirror
Dorothy
The Newlyweds
Alice Vance
All on Account of the Milk
The Young Woman
Their First Misunderstanding
Mae Darcy
The Heart of an Outlaw
The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
The Foundling
Molly O
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush
Self (archive footage)
His Duty
A young woman in the street
The Tramp and the Dictator
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ramona
Ramona
Love Among the Roses
The Lacemaker
The Portrait
Little Vera - the Model
M'Liss
Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
In the Season of Buds
Mabel
Behind the Stockade
Florence Williams
The Test
Bessie
When a Man Loves
Tessie
The Informer
The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
Getting Even
Miss Lucy
As It Is in Life
Daughter (Adult)
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
Self
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
What Do Those Old Films Mean?
Herself(archive footage)
Hollywood Hobbies
Self (uncredited)
The Rose's Story
Unknown Role
A Romance of the Redwoods
Jenny Lawrence
A Child's Impulse
Grace
Murders of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
A Midnight Adventure
Eleanor
Johanna Enlists
Johanna Renssaller
Stella Maris
Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
Less Than the Dust
Radha
The Better Way
Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
In the Sultan's Garden
Hadee
In the Sultan's Garden
Haidee
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
The Taming of the Shrew
Caterina
Little Annie Rooney
Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney
The Voice of Hollywood
Self/Queen of the Movies
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
The Toss of a Coin
Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
The Way of Man
Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
The Stampede
Nello
The Little American
Angela Moore
Home Folks
The Young Woman
How Could You, Jean?
Jean Mackaye
The Thread of Destiny
Myrtle
Suds
Amanda Afflick
Simple Charity
Miss Wilkins
Iola's Promise
Iola
Hollywood
Mary Pickford
Second Sight
Gertrude Edgar
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
Dove Eyes
Sparrows
Molly
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
A Beast at Bay
The Young Woman
In the Bishop's Carriage
Nance Olden
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cinderella
Cinderella
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
A Strange Meeting
The Mender of Nets
The Little Net-Mender
Pollyanna
Pollyanna Whittier
The Unchanging Sea
The Daughter as an Adult
That Chink at Golden Gulch
The Lighthouse Keeper
Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self (archive footage)
The School Teacher and the Waif
Nora, the Waif
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Self (archive footage)
A Gasoline Engagement
Flora Powell
Esmeralda
Esmeralda Rogers
Caprice
Mercy Baxter
A Sweet Revenge
Rosita
Rosita
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Mabel
Artful Kate
Artful Kate Stanley
The Black Pirate
Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Glad
The Sentinel Asleep
Unknown Role
Coquette
Norma Besant
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Dorothy Vernon
The Renunciation
Kittie Ryan
At a Quarter of Two
Mrs Warren
With the Enemy's Help
Faro Kate
Two Memories
Marion's Sister
The Mexican Sweethearts
The Señorita
The Gaucho
The Virgin Mary
Secrets
Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton
The Necklace
The Maid / In Pawnshop
Birth of the Tramp
Self (archive footage)
The Indian Runner's Romance
Blue Cloud's Wife
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Self - Actress (archive footage)
The Son's Return
Mary
The Faded Lilies
At party
Lena and the Geese
Lena
In Old Kentucky
Partygoer
Fate's Interception
The Mexican Girl
The New York Hat
Mary Harding, the Daughter
The Usurer
Invalid Daughter
Rags
Rags / Alice McCloud
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca Randall
Sunshine Sue
Heart o' the Hills
Mavis Hawn
The Lonely Villa
So Near, Yet So Far
The Young Woman
While There is hope, There is Life
Unknown Role
My Best Girl
Maggie Johnson
Through the Breakers
An Extra
The Italian Barber
Alice
The Message in the Bottle
Louise Spencer
The Sealed Room
A Lady-in-Waiting
Friends
Dora - the Orphan
The Unwelcome Guest
Jessie - the Slavey
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Messenger's Sister
Back to the Soil
Sadie Allen
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
A Disguised Servant
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Gwen
Daddy-Long-Legs
Judy Abbott
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Herself
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Self
Little Pal
'Little Pal'
In Old Madrid
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
A Pueblo Legend
The Indian Girl
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
Mary
The Dream
Nell Herbert
Science
Mrs. Crawford
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Self
What's Your Hurry?
Mary
A Manly Man
Lola
A Victim of Jealousy
The Wife's Friend
The Fair Dentist
Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
A Little Princess
Sara Crewe
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler
Self (archive footage)
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Amarilly Jenkins
What Drink Did
The Broken Locket
Ruth King
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
The Two Brothers
A Mexican
The Old Actor
The Old Actor's Daughter
To Save Her Soul
Agnes Hailey
My Baby
The Wife
A Timely Repentance
Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
The Hoodlum
Amy Burke
Through the Back Door
Jeanne Bodamere
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Second Couple
What the Daisy Said
Martha
Won by a Fish
The Woman
The Mountaineer's Honor
Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
The Call to Arms
A Messenger
The Way of the World
Dora (Archive Footage)
The Pride of the Clan
Marget MacTavish
The Inner Circle
The Rich Italian's Daughter
The Seventh Day
The Maid
A Kiss from Mary Pickford
Self (archive footage)
The Love Light
Angela Carlotti
May and December
May
Tess of the Storm Country
Tessibel Skinner
Kiki
Kiki
Tess of the Storm Country
Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner
A Good Little Devil
Juliet
Her First Biscuits
Biscuit Victim
A Lucky Toothache
Mary
A Lucky Toothache
Bessie
A Lodging for the Night
The Mexican Girl
Pippa Passes
Girl in crowd
Mary Pickford
Self/Archival Footage
Fanchon, the Cricket
Fanchon, the Cricket
When We Were in Our 'Teens
Mary
Behind the Scenes
Dolly Lane
The Master and the Man
Elsie Graham
100% American
Mayme
Tracked
Unknown Role
The Eternal Grind
Louise
As a Boy Dreams
Honor Thy Father
Mary Fuller
The Eagle's Mate
Anemone Breckenridge
An Indian Summer
The Widow's Daughter
The Temptress
Lucille Allen
The Peachbasket Hat
On street/In store
Tender Hearts
Nellie
The Call of the Song
Amy Gordon
The Awakening
The Widow's Daughter
Captain Kidd, Jr.
Mary MacTavish
Waiter No. 5
The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
White Roses
Betty
For the Queen's Honor
Princess Gilda
Wilful Peggy
Peggy
A Plain Song
Edith
Cupid Angling
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho-San
The Gibson Goddess
Woman on Sidewalk
Sweet Memories
Polly Biblett
The Englishman and the Girl
The Girl
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Mary Pickford
His Lost Love
Mary
Mistress Nell
Nell Gwyn
For Her Brother's Sake
Madge Spotwood
'Tween Two Loves
Grace
The Little Darling
Little Darling
The Secret of the Palm
Edna
One of Many
Self (archive footage)
An Arcadian Maid
The Arcadian Maid
The Foundling
Molly O
A Gold Necklace
Masie
His Wife's Visitor
Bessie Wright
The Fisher-Maid
Paula, The Fishing-Maid
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Mabel Brown
Sweet and Twenty
Alice
The Female of the Species
The Miner's Wife's Sister
From Farm to Fame
Mary Pickford
The Trick that Failed
Nellie Burt
The Narrow Road
Mrs. Jim Holcomb
The Little Teacher
The Little Teacher
The Country Doctor
Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
Such a Little Queen
Queen Anna Victoria
Love Heeds Not Showers
Mary
A Decree of Destiny
Mary
A Girl of Yesterday
Jane Stuart
The Slave
A Slave Girl
Poor Little Peppina
Peppina
The Twisted Trail
Molly Hendricks
Never Again
The Girl
The Light That Came
Daisy
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
Three Sisters
Mary
The One She Loved
The Wife
When the Cat's Away
Dorothy, The Wife
His Dress Shirt
Mrs. Kirby
They Would Elope
Bessie
Just Like a Woman
The Young Woman
The Courting of Mary
Mary
The Caddy's Dream
Miss Kelsomine
The Medallion
Rumored
Anniversary
Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
Hearts Adrift
Nina
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
Oh, Uncle!
Bessie
A Rich Revenge
Jennie
A Romance of the Western Hills
From the Bottom of the Sea
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)
In the Watches of the Night
Girl at Henry Brainard's
How Mary Fixed it
Mary
The Skating Bug
The Girl
Her Darkest Hour
Ruth
Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm
Maid or Man
Elsie Keene
Hulda from Holland
Hulda
The Woman from Mellon's
Mary Petersby