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.

Ironically, this led to the foundation of United Artists by Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, Pickford, and Chaplin, and to the loss of First National's biggest stars.

* 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.

In 1919, Pickford — along with D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks — formed the independent film production company United Artists.

Pickford became secretly involved in a relationship with Douglas Fairbanks.

Pickford divorced Moore on March 2, 1920, and married Fairbanks on March 28 of the same year.

When their film careers both began to founder at the end of the silent era Fairbanks ' restless nature prompted him to overseas travel ( something which Pickford did not enjoy ).

When Fairbanks ' romance with Sylvia, Lady Ashley became public in the early 1930s he and Pickford separated.

Fairbanks ' son by his first wife, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., claimed that his father and Pickford long regretted their inability to reconcile.

These deaths, her divorce from Fairbanks, and the end of silent films left Pickford deeply depressed.

Pickford gradually became a recluse, remaining almost entirely at Pickfair, allowing visits only from Lillian Gish, her stepson Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and a few select others.

Buddy Rogers often gave guests tours of Pickfair, including views of a genuine western bar Pickford had bought for Douglas Fairbanks, and a portrait of Pickford in the drawing room.

On 1 June 1932 Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. held a reception for Baba at Pickfair where he delivered a message to Hollywood.

Because Zukor believed in stars, he signed and developed many of the leading early stars, including Mary Pickford, Marguerite Clark, Pauline Frederick, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and Wallace Reid.

Al Jolson, Lillian Russell, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford were among the luminaries to make the pilgrimage to his house in central Ohio.

In addition, the Academy gives Student Academy Awards annually to filmmakers at the undergraduate and graduate level ; awards up to five Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting annually ; and operates the Margaret Herrick Library ( at the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study ) in Beverly Hills, California and the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

They were the Douglas Fairbanks / Mary Pickford of our time ...

Fairbanks was the son of Douglas Fairbanks and the stepson of Mary Pickford, who were considered Hollywood royalty.

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.

Pickford produced a few films, and at various times Goldwyn, Korda, Walt Disney, Walter Wanger, and David O. Selznick were made " producing partners " ( i. e., sharing in the profits ), but ownership still rested with the founders.

The New York Hat, starring Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore and directed by D. W. Griffith, was her third screenplay and the first to be produced.

The film was produced by Fairbanks for his own production company, Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation, and was the first film released through United Artists, the company formed by Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith.

The story was adapted for the screen by Fairbanks ( as " Elton Thomas "), Kenneth Davenport, Edward Knoblock, Allan Dwan and Lotta Woods, and was produced by Fairbanks for his own production company, Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation, and distributed by United Artists, a company owned by Fairbanks, his wife Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin and D. W. Griffith.

The film was produced by former silent film star Mary Pickford and released by United Artists.

Has ten-year preferential contract with United Artists Corp .( founded by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks ) to exhibit pictures produced by latter corporation.

* Suds ( film ), a 1920 silent film produced by and starring Mary Pickford

Portions of the 1910 silent movie, Ramona, starring Mary Pickford were shot there.

Mary Pickford, an Academy Award winning actress, shot some of her early films in this area.

Like the early Alice Comedies, he planned on using a combination of live-action and animation for the " wonderland " sequences, and in early 1933, a Technicolor screen test was shot with Mary Pickford as Alice.

In 1932, Pickford spearheaded the " Payroll Pledge Program ," a payroll-deduction plan for studio workers who gave one half of one percent of their earnings to the MPRF.

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.

The leaders of these groups were Ross Granville Harrison, Grace E. Pickford, and G. Evelyn Hutchinson, and their members included both graduate students and more experienced scientists.

Fairbanks Sr. and Pickford were opposed to the marriage and did not invite the couple to their home, Pickfair, for eight months after the marriage.

Several of these Canadian pioneers achieved enormous wealth and worldwide fame, such as Louis B. Mayer and Mary Pickford who were, in their day, two of the most powerful personalities in Hollywood.

After their father deserted the family, all three Pickford children had to take work as child actors.

Following suit, the Smiths changed their stage names to ' Pickford '.

Returning to their room in the Hôtel Ritz around 3: 00 a. m., Pickford either fell asleep or was outside the room for a final round of drugs.

In 1912, their friend Mary Pickford introduced the sisters to D. W. Griffith, and helped get them contracts with Biograph Studios.

In 1912, their childhood friend, actress Mary Pickford, introduced them to director D. W. Griffith, and the sisters began acting at the Biograph Studios.

By 1909, actresses such as Florence Lawrence and Mary Pickford were already widely recognized, although the public remained unaware of their names.

According to Ste Pickford, who was part of the team at Rare throughout the late 80s and into the early 90s, they just " wanted to make as many games as they could in their ' window of opportunity '".

A long-time customer recounted that di Lelio's restaurant became famous when Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks stopped in and fell in love with the dish while on their honeymoon in 1920.

Pickford and Fairbanks served his dish to their friends and associates when they returned to Hollywood.

Returning to their room in the Hotel Ritz around 3: 00 a. m., Pickford either fell asleep or was outside the room for a final round of drugs.

The highlight of any visit to Pickfair was a large collection of Chinese Objects d ' art collected by Fairbanks and Pickford on their many visits to the Orient.

Mary Pickford left Biograph Studios to join the Independent Moving Pictures ( IMP ) to replace their major star, Pickford ’ s Canadian friend, Florence Lawrence.

During the late 18th century, the Pickford family developed their family business of waggoners on the London-to-Manchester route with The Birches Farm at Poynton as its headquarters.

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.