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.

* 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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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

In October 2011, LACMA entered into an agreement with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences under which the Academy will establish its proposed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, originally planned to be adjacent to its Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood, in the May building at a future date after a fundraising campaign.

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

Some of the best-known include Disney's 1960 version starring child actress Hayley Mills, who won a special Oscar for the role, and the 1920 version starring Mary Pickford.