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The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.
After making a series of westerns and comedies, Dwan directed fellow Canadian Mary Pickford in several very successful movies as well as her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, notably in the acclaimed 1922 Robin Hood.
* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919.
Frustrated with their lack of concern for quality, Chaplin joined forces with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D. W. Griffith to form a new distribution company — United Artists, established in January 1919.
DeMille co-starred with some of the men and women whom he would later direct in films ( i. e. Charlotte Walker, Mary Pickford, and Pedro de Cordoba, among others ).
Between 1917 and 1918, they made contracts with Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, the first million-dollar deals in the history of film.
Enclosing the image inside static vignettes or masks of shapes other than circular also began to appear in films during the years 1914-1919, including symbolic shapes such as a cruciform cut-out in the Mary Pickford film Stella Maris ( Marshall Neilan, 1918 ), and Maurice Elvey in Britain put romantic scenes inside a heart-shaped mask in Nelson ; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero ( 1918 ) and The Rocks of Valpré ( 1919 ).
* 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
Hawks next worked on the Mary Pickford film The Little Princess, directed by Marshall Neilan.
When Mary Pickford visited Hawks at basic training, his superior officers were so impressed that they promoted him to flight instructor and sent him to Texas to teach new recruits.
* 1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
* 1916Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
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Mary Pickford ( April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979 ) was a Canadian motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Mary Pickford was born Gladys Marie Smith in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Mary had two younger siblings, Jack and Lottie Pickford, who would also become actors.
Mary Pickford, 1914
David Belasco, the producer of the play, insisted that Gladys Smith assume the stage name Mary Pickford.
Mary Pickford, 1920Throughout her career, Pickford starred in 52 features.
Mary Pickford giving President Herbert Hoover a ticket for a film industry benefit for the unemployed, 1931
Leftover funds from her work selling Liberty Bonds were put toward its creation, and in 1921, the Motion Picture Relief Fund ( MPRF ) was officially incorporated, with Joseph Schenck voted its first president and Mary Pickford as its vice president.
Mary Pickford War Funds bungalow, 1943

Mary and 1916
The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.
* 1916Mary Jane Croft, American actress ( d. 1999 )
Jamison was born to Dr. Marshall Verdine Jamison ( 1916 – 2012 ) and Mary Dell Temple Jamison ( 1916 –?).
* 1916Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium ( d. 2002 )
Actresses such as Mary Pickford in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere ( 1916 ), Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and White Tiger, and Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue.
* August 24 – Mary Jane Croft, American actress ( b. 1916 )
This was $ 7, 000 per week less than what Mary Pickford made in 1916.
The ocean liners and ; the Royal Navy battlecruiser,, which was destroyed at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 ; Queen Mary College, University of London ; Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong ; Queen Mary's Peak, the highest mountain in Tristan da Cunha ; and Queen Mary Land in Antarctica are named in her honour.
Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900 ; Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841, became an official divinity school of the university in 1901 ; Goldsmiths College joined in 1904 ; Imperial College was founded in 1907 ; Queen Mary College joined in 1915 ; the School of Oriental and African Studies was founded in 1916 ; and Birkbeck joined in 1920.
* HMS Queen Mary, a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy launched in 1912 and lost at the battle of Jutland in 1916.
The colorful history of St. Mary ’ s athletics includes a stellar 1910 baseball team, which lost only to Ty Cobb ’ s Detroit Tigers in an exhibition game, and a stint by future President Eisenhower as coach of the 1916 football team.
Olivia Mary de Havilland ( born 1 July 1916 ) is a British American film and stage actress.
Mary ( elephant ) | Mary being executed on September 13, 1916 before a crowd of over 2, 500 witnesses at Erwin. The town of Erwin received its name by a mail mishap.
On September 12, 1916, Kingsport residents demanded the death of circus elephant Mary ( an Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows Circus ) for her killing of city hotel worker Walter Eldridge, who was hired the day before as an assistant elephant trainer by the circus.
* Miss Mary Lilian Baels ( 1916 – 1941 )
An Inspection of the Eastern Reserve Brigade Guard of Honour By President Mary McAleese on the 93rd anniversary of the 1916 rising on O ' Connell Street
** Mary Ann Amy Macrae Cockburn ( Calcutta, 29 August 1855-23 April 1942 ), married on 6 June 1877 to Walter St. George Burke of Auberies, Bulmer, Essex, JP ( 27 April 1842-17 February 1916 ), Lieutenant Colonel in the service of the Royal Engineers, Justice of the Peace for Essex and for Suffolk, son of James St. George Burke and wife Anne Eliza Grubbe, and had issue
In 1905, he married the former Ada Ruth Dismukes of Natchitoches, and they had three daughters, Katharine ( born 1910 ), Ruth ( born 1912 ) and Mary Elizabeth ( born 1916 ), and a son, John H. Overton, Jr., ( 1914 – 1946 ).
* In 1916, American concert pianist Mary Hallock-Greenewalt produced hand-painted film strips, possibly intended for projection in her color organ, Sarabet.

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