* Mary Pickford stated that Bow " was a very great actress " and wanted her to play her sister in Secrets.

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 '".

Pickford wanted to expand on the previous Wizards & Warriors game.

Ste Pickford said that designing a game which consisted of multiple characters, guilds, and secrets " was a dream come true at the time ", saying that they wanted to pay tribute to the various Ultimate Play the Game titles they played in the early 1980s.

Developer Ste Pickford said: " Wizards & Warriors III was more like a game that I really wanted to make.

Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II was developed by Zippo Games ' founder Ste Pickford and was the first game that he developed for the NES.

The Pickford brothers designed the game as a homage to Ultimate Play the Game's ( Rare's former incarnation ) 1983 ZX Spectrum title Atic Atac ; they also drew inspiration for gameplay and art from other NES titles such as Metroid, Faxanadu, and Super Mario Bros. 3.

Some reviewers say that Wizards & Warriors III was the best game in the series, while Ste Pickford said that this game was his personal favorite.

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.

Ste Pickford was the lead artist and designed all the concept art for the game, while Lyndon Brooke also assisted with some of the drawings, and Steve Hughes and Andy Miah assisted as additional programmers.

Pickford designed the " Worm " boss similar to the bosses found in R-Type, where a series of smaller sprites formed a snake or worm-like enemy ; however, he commented that " it ended up in the game more like a giant floating head ".

According to Ste Pickford: " One of the programmers completed the game himself after the studio closed.

* Zee-3's official website ( the Pickford brothers ' indie game company following Zippo Games ' demise )

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 ''.

The oldest was found by Martin Pickford in the year 2000 and is the 6 million years old Orrorin tugenensis, named after the Tugen Hills where it was unearthed

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.

After completing the Broadway run and touring the play, however, Pickford was once again out of work.

The role went to someone else but Griffith was immediately taken with Pickford.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1955 and 1957, Pickford was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.

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 first demanded ( and received ) these powers in 1916, when she was under contract to Adolph Zukor's Famous Players In Famous Plays ( later Paramount ).

Pickford was married three times.

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.

* 1915: A silent film version was directed by Sidney Olcott and starred Mary Pickford.

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

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

While the Fairbanks men played golf together, Crawford was left either with Pickford or alone.

* 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 Fairbanks ' marriage was breaking down even before filming began, and animosity between the couple increased during filming.

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.

That year Pickford also introduced Dorothy and Lillian Gish ( both friends from her days touring melodrama ) to Griffith.

Pickford retired from acting in 1933.

When she retired from acting in 1933, Pickford continued to produce films for United Artists, and she and Chaplin remained partners in the company for decades.

After retiring from the screen, Pickford developed alcoholism, the addiction that had afflicted her father.

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.

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.

The film stars Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks ( returning from the play ) and Frank McGlynn, Sr ..

Charles W. Pickford from Ontario, Canada first settled here on the Munuscong River in 1877.

* New Zealand's hardy farm spirit from BBC correspondent John Pickford

" A whisper from the Babri Masjid Mihrab could be heard clearly at the other end, 200 feet m away and through the length and breadth of the central court " according to Graham Pickford, architect to Lord William Bentinck ( 1828 – 1833 ).

The funeral attracted thousands of spectators who came to view the arrival of countless stars from MGM and other studios, including Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Howard Hughes, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, among the stars.

The Academy Honorary Award, instituted in 1948 for the 21st Academy Awards ( previously called the Special Award ), is given by the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award ( e. g. Mary Pickford, Maurice Chevalier, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, James Stewart, Sophia Loren, Sidney Poitier, et al ).

** Afrotragulus moruorotensis ( previously " Dorcatherium " moruorotensis Pickford, 2001 ) ( early Miocene ) from Moruorot, Kenya

After returning from military service, Taylor went on to direct some of the great stars of the era including Mary Pickford, Wallace Reid, Dustin Farnum and his protégée, Mary Miles Minter, who starred in the 1919 version of Anne of Green Gables.

At Roach she made the film Raggedy Rose plus four others which were released with publicity support from the Hollywood community ( including her friend Mary Pickford ).

In Sam Taylor's Kiki ( 1931 ) Mary Pickford feigns a case of catalepsy to keep from being removed from the apartment of the man she secretly loves.

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

Lying on Watling Street, the Roman road ( now the A5 ), between St Albans and Dunstable it was a major coaching stop on the highway from London to Birmingham, at one point having over forty inns and public houses along its main road, and the village was one of the earliest sites of the Pickfords transport service, one road out of the village being named Pickford Road.