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Pickford added to her 1909 Biographs ( Sweet and Twenty, They Would Elope, and To Save Her Soul, to name a few ) with films from California.
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" Pickford added that, while he could have done better with both Ironsword and Wizards & Warriors III, he wished he would have been able to see the latter to its completion.
Pickford and her
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.
* 1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
In consideration of her contributions to American cinema, the American Film Institute named Pickford 24th among the greatest female stars of all time.
Pickford, her mother and two younger siblings toured the United States by rail in third-rate companies and plays.
As Pickford said of her success at Biograph: " I played scrubwomen and secretaries and women of all nationalities ...
Audiences nonetheless noticed and identified Pickford within weeks of her first film appearance.
That year Pickford also introduced Dorothy and Lillian Gish ( both friends from her days touring melodrama ) to Griffith.
Pickford made her last Biograph picture, The New York Hat, in late 1912 and returned to Broadway in the David Belasco production of A Good Little Devil.
Hearts Adrift was so popular that Pickford asked for the first of her many publicized pay raises based on the profits and reviews.
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.
Mary Pickford, 1920Throughout her career, Pickford starred in 52 features.
In 1916, Pickford signed a new contract with Zukor that granted her full authority over production of the films in which she starred, and a record-breaking salary of $ 500 a week.
Pickford turned him down and went to First National Pictures, which agreed to her terms.
Through United Artists, Pickford continued to produce and perform in her own movies ; she could also distribute them the way she chose.
She played a reckless socialite in Coquette ( 1929 ), a role where she no longer had her famous ringlets, but rather a 1920s bob ; Pickford had cut her hair in the wake of her mother's death in 1928.
Like most movie stars of the silent era, Pickford found her career fading as talkies became more popular among audiences.
Now in her late thirties, Pickford was unable to play the children, teenage spitfires and feisty young women so adored by her fans, nor could she play the sleekly elegant heroines of early sound.
Pickford used her stature in the movie industry to promote a variety of causes.
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.
An astute businesswoman, Pickford became her own producer within three years of her start in features.
Pickford and 1909
" Pickford appeared in 51 films in 1909 — almost one a week.
During this period she met a fellow Canadian, the young actress Mary Pickford, who in 1909 invited Florence to watch the making of a motion picture at the Biograph studio in Manhattan.
By 1909, actresses such as Florence Lawrence and Mary Pickford were already widely recognized, although the public remained unaware of their names.
It inspired a silent film adaptation starring Gertrude Robinson ( and including Mary Pickford in a minor role ) which was made in 1909.
Pickford and Sweet
In early 1910, director D. W. Griffith was sent by the Biograph Company to the west coast with his acting troupe, consisting of actors Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and others.
In early 1910, director D. W. Griffith was sent by the Biograph Company to the west coast with his acting troupe, consisting of actors Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and others.
In the latter year, he starred in at least 16 movies opposite Mary Pickford, who was hired to replace Lawrence after she and Solter broke their contracts, including the one-reel romance / drama Sweet Memories, which was directed by Thomas H. Ince.
Pickford and They
They adopted two children: Roxanne ( born 1944, adopted 1944 ) and Ronald Charles ( born 1937, adopted 1943, a. k. a. Ron Pickford Rogers ).
They were the Douglas Fairbanks / Mary Pickford of our time ...
Pickford and Her
Her big break came when Mary Pickford, resident star of the Biograph lot and a married woman at that time, refused to play the bare-legged, grass-skirted role of Lily-White in Man's Genesis.
Pickford and name
David Belasco, the producer of the play, insisted that Gladys Smith assume the stage name Mary Pickford.
The film also marked the first time Pickford ’ s name was put above the title on movie marquees.
Betty was inspired to become an actress after seeing Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( 1921 ) and Mary Pickford in Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1921 ), and changed the spelling of her name to " Bette " after Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette.
The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks.
Schenck also formed a separate partnership with Pickford and Chaplin to buy and build theaters under the United Artists name.
By that time his sister ' Gladys Smith ' had been transformed into Mary Pickford ( Marie her middle name, Pickford an old family name ).
Using the famous Pickford name, he soon became involved in a scheme that allowed rich young men to pay bribes to avoid military service, as well as reportedly procuring young women for officers.
Gladys was a child actress who did some work for director D. W. Griffith and later took the stage name Mary Pickford.
Pickford began appearing under her own name in 1911.
Of her marriage, Thomas said, " I didn't want people to say that I'm succeeding because of the Pickford name.
However, Gladys Moore would soon overshadow her husband under her stage name, Mary Pickford.
Prior to establishing his brewery, Bass transported ale for another brewer by the name of Benjamin Printon ; Bass sold this carrier business to the Pickford family, using the funds to establish his own brewery.
United Artists Theaters has its roots in the movie studio of the same name founded by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith, but legally has always been separate from it.
Joseph Schenck was brought in to become UA's president in 1924 ; as part of the deal, Schenck entered into a partnership with Chaplin and Pickford to buy and construct theatres using UA's name.
As late as the 1910s, stars as famous as Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin were not known by name to moviegoers.
He is also credited as giving Pickford her stage name.
Hadley contracted with defendants Baxendale and Ors, who were operating together as common carriers under the name Pickford & Co., to deliver the crankshaft to engineers for repair by a certain date at a cost of £ 2 sterling and 4 shillings.
In 1646, a north-country yeoman by the name of Thomas Pickford had his lands confiscated by Parliament for gun-running and supporting the Cavaliers during the English Civil War.
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