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Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Pickford was believed to be the most famous woman in the world, or, as a silent-film journalist described her, " the best known woman who has ever lived, the woman who was known to more people and loved by more people than any other woman that has been in all history.

" Pickford's closest female rival at this time at the box office and with the public was 31-year-old Marguerite Clark.

She also came from stage acting and had a girlish / whimsical charm to which audiences responded.