* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

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.

* 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.

Audiences nonetheless noticed and identified Pickford within weeks of her first film appearance.

Zukor first filmed Pickford in a silent version 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.

The film also marked the first time Pickford ’ s name was put above the title on movie marquees.

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.

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

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.

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.

In the first season, she is enrolled at Mary Pickford Junior High.

The film stars silent film star Mary Pickford in her first talkie, Johnny Mack Brown in one of his earliest roles, John St. Polis, Matt Moore ( Pickford's ex brother in law ), and Louise Beavers.

With the arrival of talkies Pickford immediately took to the new medium, being one of the first major stars to do so.

Much like My Best Girl the role was older skewing, with Pickford portraying a flapper type for the first time.

Pickford was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for which her husband would be the first president.

The first Academy Awards were held in 1929, without any nominations for Pickford.

* Jack Pickford ( 1896 – 1933 ), actor, Hollywood's first " Bad Boy "

She was introduced to Lindsay backstage, and immediately surprised the producers with her enthusiastic desire to head the first company to go on the road, with Dorothy taking the same part for the second road company, and the movie rights for Mary Pickford.

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.

Haines scored his first big personal success with Brown of Harvard ( 1926 ) opposite Jack Pickford and Mary Brian.

The property was said to have been the first private home in the Los Angeles area to include an in-ground swimming pool, in which Pickford and Fairbanks were famously photographed paddling a canoe.

Pickford received few visitors in her later years, but continued to open up her grand home for charitable organizations and parties.

In 1976 Pickford received a second Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Film.

Through one of these lodgers, the seven-year-old Pickford won a big part at Toronto's Princess Theatre in a stock company production of The Silver King.

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.

However these films did not do as well as her children styled roles ( though they were still successful at the box office ) and Pickford had reverted making films like Little Annie Rooney in 1925 and Sparrows in 1926.

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.

Mary Pickford, 1916

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.

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.

This was $ 7, 000 per week less than what Mary Pickford made in 1916.

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

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

In 1916, Pickford met actor Douglas Fairbanks, Pickford filed for a divorce from Moore, and Pickford and Fairbanks married in 1920.

Joe Rock began his career as a stunt double for Mary Pickford, A short-lived career with Vitagraph Studios as a comedian teamed with Earl Montgomery in countless comedy shorts as Hash and Havoc ( 1916 ), Stowaways and Strategy ( 1917 ), Farms and Fumbles ( 1918 ), Harems and Hookum ( 1919 ), Zip and Zest ( 1919 ), Vamps and Variety ( 1919 ), Rubes and Robbers ( 1919 ), Cave and Coquettes ( 1919 ), Throbs and Thrills ( 1920 ), Loafers and Lovers ( 1920 ), Sauce and Senoritas ( 1920 ) and many more.

In 1916 William Fox searched to find a " second Mary Pickford.

In 1933, Pickford underwent a Technicolor screen test for an animated / live action film version of Alice in Wonderland, but Walt Disney discarded the project when Paramount released its own version of the book.

Even at private parties people instinctively stood up when Pickford entered a room ; she and her husband were often referred to as " Hollywood royalty.

Earhart was a vigorous advocate for female pilots and when the 1934 Bendix Trophy Race banned women, she openly refused to fly screen actress Mary Pickford to Cleveland to open the races.

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.

Pickford became nervous during preparation, firing her sound man when a take wasn't ready for her review on time.

Next to him is a young blonde-haired woman: in the 1932 black-and-white edition of the book this woman is referred to as " Mary Pikefort ", a thin disguise for the actress Mary Pickford ; this is significant because Rastapopoulos is a movie mogul when he appears in Cigars of the Pharaoh.

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.

Located at 1143 Summit Drive, in San Ysidro Canyon in Beverly Hills, the property was a hunting lodge when purchased by Fairbanks in 1919 for his bride, Mary Pickford.

In 1919, an era when most women didn't even work, Mary Pickford cofounded United Artists with Douglas Fairbanks, his friend Charlie Chaplain, and her old boss D. W. Griffith.

Before Mary Pickford, the public used to call Florence Lawrence the " Biograph girl "; but in 1910 Lawrence was lured away from Biograph by Carl Laemmle when he started his new Independent Motion Picture Company ( IMP ).

Development of Wizards & Warriors III: Kuros: Visions of Power started in 1990, when, after strong sales with Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II, Rare gave Zippo Games the rights to develop and direct the third installment in the series ; the company's founders, John and Ste Pickford, co-designed the game.

The San Francisco theater connections of father and son meant the Graumans knew people like Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, as the stars had performed at one of the Grauman theaters when they were on their way up.

Some well-known clients, whose clothing influenced many when it appeared in early films, on stage, and in the press, included: Irene Castle, Lily Elsie, Gertie Millar, Gaby Deslys, Billie Burke, and Mary Pickford.

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.