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In 1913, she decided to work exclusively in film.

In 1912, Adolph Zukor had formed Famous Players in Famous Plays – later Famous Players-Lasky and then Paramount Pictures – one of the first American feature film companies.

Pickford left the stage to join his roster of stars.

Zukor believed film's potential lay in recording theatrical players in replicas of their most famous stage roles and productions.

Zukor first filmed Pickford in a silent version of A Good Little Devil.

The film, produced in 1913, showed the play's Broadway actors reciting every line of dialogue, resulting in a stiff film that Pickford later called " one of the worst I ever made ... it was deadly.

" Zukor agreed ; he held the film back from distribution for a year.