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Thomas eloped with Pickford on October 25, 1916 in New Jersey.

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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.
Hawks then had his first experience as a film director at the age of twenty-one when he and cinematographer Charles Rosher spent the day filming a tricky double exposure dream sequence with Pickford.
Hawks worked with Pickford and Neilan again on Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley before joining the United States Army Air Service.
Two marriages between women were recorded in Cheshire, England, in 1707 ( between Hannah Wright and Anne Gaskill ) and 1708 ( between Ane Norton and Alice Pickford ) with no comment about both parties being female.
The role went to someone else but Griffith was immediately taken with Pickford.
In January 1910, Pickford traveled with a Biograph crew to Los Angeles.
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.
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.
In 1919, Pickford — along with D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks — formed the independent film production company United Artists.
In this period, Pickford also made Sparrows ( 1926 ), which blended the Dickensian with newly minted German expressionist style, and the romantic comedy My Best Girl ( 1927 ).
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.
Pickford, who entered feature film with two Broadway credits but a far greater following among fans of nickelodeon flickers, became the world's most popular actress in a matter of months.
Pickford became secretly involved in a relationship with Douglas Fairbanks.
When Fairbanks ' romance with Sylvia, Lady Ashley became public in the early 1930s he and Pickford separated.
Pickford was registered with the Republican Party and in October 1960 she appeared with Ginger Rogers, Cesar Romero, Laraine Day, Dick Powell and John Payne in a Nixon-Lodge bumper sticker drive in Los Angeles.
While the Fairbanks men played golf together, Crawford was left either with Pickford or alone.
Berle recalled, " There were even trips out to Hollywood — the studios paid — where I got parts in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, with Mary Pickford ; The Mark of Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Tillie's Punctured Romance, with Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand and Marie Dressler.
* The silent film Sparrows ( 1926 ) with Mary Pickford was set in a baby farm in the southern swamps.
When Douglas Fairbanks was on honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his new wife Mary Pickford, but Chevalier doubted his own talent for silent movies ( his previous ones had largely failed )..

Pickford and Thomas
The inventor of the motion picture camera, Thomas Edison himself, was so annoyed by the stiffness of the early " talkies " that he refused to see them and returned to his favorite " silents " with Bow and Mary Pickford.
Both Pickford and Thomas were constantly traveling and had little time to spend together.
Pickford brought Thomas ' body back to the United States.
Pickford met actress and Ziegfeld girl Olive Thomas at a beach cafe on the Santa Monica Pier.
Thomas was just as wild as Pickford, possibly having an alcohol problem herself.
Of her marriage, Thomas said, " I didn't want people to say that I'm succeeding because of the Pickford name.
Thomas was known for her partying and wild ways which was also increased after marrying Pickford.
Alcohol began playing a large role in Thomas ' life ( alcoholism ran in the Pickford family ), fueling most of the drama with her husband and possibly car crashes as well.
Thomas met actor Jack Pickford, brother of one of the most powerful silent stars Mary Pickford, at a beach cafe on the Santa Monica Pier.
Both Pickford and Thomas were constantly traveling and had little time to spend together.
The mausoleum of Olive Thomas Pickford
It starred Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York as Billie Burke, Tony nominee Michael Hayden as Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., Tony Award winner Daisy Eagan as Molly Cook, Kimberly Faye Greenberg as Fanny Brice, Matt Leisy as Jack Pickford and newcomer Rachael Fogle in the leading role of Olive Thomas.
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.
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.
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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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 ''.
Hawks next worked on the Mary Pickford film The Little Princess, directed by Marshall Neilan.
After six impoverished years, Pickford allowed one more summer to land a leading role on Broadway, planning to quit acting if she failed.
Hearts Adrift was so popular that Pickford asked for the first of her many publicized pay raises based on the profits and reviews.
The film also marked the first time Pickford ’ s name was put above the title on movie marquees.
Pickford underestimated the value of adding sound to movies, claiming that " adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo ".
Pickford and Fairbanks produced and shot their films after 1920 at the jointly owned Pickford-Fairbanks studio on Santa Monica Boulevard.
Pickford divorced Moore on March 2, 1920, and married Fairbanks on March 28 of the same year.
The first sound version on film is the sixty-eight minute 1929 film The Taming of the Shrew starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks and adapted and directed by Sam Taylor.
In later years, Pickford stated that working on the film was the worst experience of her life, although she also acknowledged that Fairbanks ' performance was one of his best.
Hawks got character actors Charlie Ruggles on loan from Paramount Pictures to play Major Horace Applegate and Barry Fitzgerald on loan from the The Mary Pickford Corporation to play the gardener Aloysius Gogarty.
* Pickford is an unincorporated community on M-129 about two miles south of M-48 at.
Charles W. Pickford from Ontario, Canada first settled here on the Munuscong River in 1877.
She was married to Jack Pickford and died of accidental self-induced poisoning by Mercury Bichloride at the age of 25 while on vacation in Paris, the first of many fatal Hollywood scandals of the 1920s.
Even though Nina does not like Sharon openly, she has helped her on a few occasions and even enjoyed her company when her own friends are not around such as in the episode " Lorenza " and in the episode " The Pickford Project " were Nina truly seemed to care about Sharon's life and saved her.
* Mary Pickford: A Life on Film ( 1997 ) ( documentary )
Known for little girl type roles such as Pollyanna ( one of her highest grossing films ever ) Pickford had been trying to escape typecasting since 1923 taking on roles such as Rosita.
Pickford became nervous during preparation, firing her sound man when a take wasn't ready for her review on time.
UA was incorporated as a joint venture on February 5, 1919, by four of the leading figures in early Hollywood: Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith.

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