Mary Pickford

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

134

Movies

270

Born: April 7, 1892 – May 29, 1979
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography

Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1894 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian actress resident in the U.S., and also producer, screenwriter and film studio founder, who was a pioneer in the US film industry with a Hollywood career that spanned five decades. Pickford alongside her future husband, actor-producer Douglas Fairbanks, founded Pickford–Fairbanks Studios and United Artists, and was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Pickford is considered to be one of the most recognisable women in history. Known as "America's Sweetheart" during the silent film era, she is named on the list of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars as the 24th-top female star from the Classical Hollywood Cinema era and the "girl with the curls." Pickford was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting. She was one of the earliest stars to be billed under her own name, and was one of the most popular actresses of the 1910s and 1920s, earning the nickname "Queen of the Movies." She is credited with having defined the ingénue type in cinema. She was awarded the second Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound film role in Coquette (1929). By the late 1920s, Pickford's career went into decline. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 1976 in consideration of her contributions to American cinema.

Works

270 films

A Kiss from Mary Pickford

19275.2

100% American

19187.0

The Women Who Run Hollywood

20167.1

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

19257.3

Astrid

201410.0

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

19617.0

Mistress Nell

1915

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

19406.3

Love Heeds Not Showers

1911

A Good Little Devil

1914

Caprice

19131.0

The Black Pirate

19266.7

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

Cinderella

19145.4

What the Daisy Said

19104.7

The Pride of the Clan

19177.1

Rags

19157.5

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988

Madame Butterfly

19154.5

The Casting Couch

19958.3

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

19175.8

Fanchon, the Cricket

19157.0

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

19095.2

Muggsy's First Sweetheart

19105.0

Hooray for Hollywood

19768.0

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10

1934

Esmeralda

1915

White Roses

1910

One of Many

1927

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

20208.0

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

20176.5

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove

19346.0

Hearts Adrift

1914

The Tramp and the Dictator

20027.0

A Lucky Toothache

1910

The Love Light

19216.9

The Eternal Grind

1916

To Save Her Soul

19095.2

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

20007.0

The Way of the World

1947

The Renunciation

19094.4

A Lodging for the Night

19125.7

Three Sisters

1911

Charmed Lives: A Family Romance

2028

Through the Back Door

19216.5

Cupid Angling

1918

Kiki

19315.2

Mondo Hollywood

19676.7

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

19417.0

The Broken Locket

19093.5

Hollywood’s Children

19829.0

D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913

2002

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

20074.3

The House That Shadows Built

19318.5

His Lost Love

19092.0

Elf: Christmas in Tinseltown

2004

Secrets

19335.2

Science

1911

Birth of the Tramp

20137.1

Little Lord Fauntleroy

19217.0

The Little American

19176.3

Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler

20058.0

Coquette

19295.9

Just Like a Woman

1912

My Best Girl

19277.1

Hollywood

19239.0

The Foundling

1915

Hollywood Hobbies

19395.6

Heart o' the Hills

19196.3

Pollyanna

19206.5

So Near, Yet So Far

19125.9

A Beast at Bay

19125.6

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

19245.0

Mary Pickford

20057.0

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

19426.0

Home Folks

1912

The New York Hat

19125.6

Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm

1924

Less Than the Dust

19163.0

The One She Loved

1912

The Hoodlum

19196.0

Ramona

19104.9

A Romance of the Redwoods

19176.4

The Englishman and the Girl

1910

The Awakening

19094.2

Behind the Scenes

1914

Murders of Hollywood

20035.0

For the Queen's Honor

1911

Anniversary

19639.0

The Dream

19115.5

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

20127.2

The Medallion

1911

Stella Maris

19186.8

The Unchanging Sea

19106.5

The Call to Arms

19104.0

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

20085.0

My Baby

19125.5

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

1933

They Would Elope

19095.1

Poor Little Peppina

19165.2

Johanna Enlists

19186.0

A Decree of Destiny

1911

The Eagle's Mate

19145.0

The Dawn of a Tomorrow

19157.0

A Girl of Yesterday

1915

The Informer

1912

Sunshine Sue

1910

The Poor Little Rich Girl

19175.7

Her Darkest Hour

1911

In Old Kentucky

19091.5

The Trick that Failed

19094.0

An Arcadian Maid

19104.8

The Voice of Hollywood

1930

Sparrows

19267.0

The Son's Return

19095.6

The Narrow Road

19124.5

The Light That Came

19094.1

The Twisted Trail

1910

The Usurer

19105.0

Tess of the Storm Country

19226.2

Hulda from Holland

1916

The Necklace

19094.0

The Little Teacher

19091.0

The Caddy's Dream

1911

The Song of the Wildwood Flute

1910

For Her Brother's Sake

1911

Little Annie Rooney

19257.1

Pippa Passes

19095.4

The Little Darling

19094.4

The Mountaineer's Honor

19094.6

The Female of the Species

19124.2

A Little Princess

19175.2

Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush

20035.3

A Romance of the Western Hills

1910

In the Watches of the Night

19092.0

Friends

19125.5

The Gaucho

19276.3

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

199810.0

The Two Brothers

1910

A Child's Impulse

19106.2

The Faded Lilies

19092.2

Little Red Riding Hood

1911

Hollywood on Parade No. A-4

1932

Lena and the Geese

19124.9

Captain Kidd, Jr.

1919

Rosita

19236.6

The Inner Circle

19124.0

As It Is in Life

19105.2

Getting Even

19093.8

The Slave

19094.2

Yesterday and Today

19537.0

A Pueblo Legend

1912

Suds

19206.6

The Taming of the Shrew

19295.8

How Could You, Jean?

1918

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

19094.2

The Lonely Villa

19096.0

Decasia: The State of Decay

20026.5

M'Liss

19185.7

When a Man Loves

19114.0

The Sealed Room

19095.1

A Strange Meeting

19094.3

The Unwelcome Guest

19135.0

Sweet Memories

19114.0

The Gibson Goddess

19094.2

The Country Doctor

19096.2

The Lighthouse Keeper

1911

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

19185.3

The Indian Runner's Romance

19093.0

What Drink Did

19094.5

The Old Actor

19125.4

Such a Little Queen

1914

The Violin Maker of Cremona

19094.6

The Peachbasket Hat

19094.2

Tender Hearts

19093.0

Her First Biscuits

19093.0

That Chink at Golden Gulch

19105.0

From the Bottom of the Sea

1911

Wilful Peggy

19105.0

Maid or Man

1911

Daddy-Long-Legs

19196.7

Sigrid Holmquist

20107.0

The School Teacher and the Waif

19124.8

The Seventh Day

19093.0

A Manly Man

1911

The Foundling

1916

In the Bishop's Carriage

19131.0

A Timely Repentance

19127.0

Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse

20237.0

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

19124.5

Tess of the Storm Country

19145.4

In the Sultan's Garden

1911

What's Your Hurry?

19095.2

The Better Way

1911

The Restoration

19094.5

The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

1910

Waiter No. 5

1910

The Newlyweds

19105.0

The Thread of Destiny

1910

Simple Charity

1910

Fate's Interception

1912

How Mary Fixed it

1911

Love Among the Roses

19104.7

The Mirror

1911

His Duty

19093.9

All on Account of the Milk

19105.3

The Way of Man

19094.0

A Plain Song

1910

A Rich Revenge

1910

Two Memories

19094.2

All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan

19178.0

The Mender of Nets

19125.8

The Italian Barber

19114.0

The Heart of an Outlaw

19092.0

When We Were in Our 'Teens

19105.0

Muggsy Becomes a Hero

19105.0

Sweet and Twenty

19093.8

In Old Madrid

19114.0

'Tween Two Loves

1911

In the Season of Buds

1910

Their First Misunderstanding

1911

A Victim of Jealousy

1910

A Gold Necklace

19105.5

With the Enemy's Help

19123.0

Second Sight

1911

May and December

19105.0

Iola's Promise

19125.5

Won by a Fish

19124.0

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5

1930

The Courting of Mary

19116.0

The Mexican Sweethearts

19090.5

The Smoker

1910

The Secret of the Palm

19117.0

As a Boy Dreams

19114.0

The Rose's Story

1911

The Fisher-Maid

1911

The Fair Dentist

1911

Back to the Soil

1911

The Skating Bug

1911

An Affair of Hearts

19102.5

A Sweet Revenge

19094.5

An Indian Summer

19124.0

The Toss of a Coin

1911

The Cardinal's Conspiracy

19093.7

The Stampede

1911

Through the Breakers

19094.2

A Midnight Adventure

19090.5

The Test

19094.2

Tracked

19119.0

The Temptress

19117.0

His Wife's Visitor

19090.5

At a Quarter of Two

1911

Little Pal

1915

The Sentinel Asleep

1911

Never Again

19104.0

Oh, Uncle!

19093.5

The Portrait

19119.0

The Message in the Bottle

1911

When the Cat's Away

1911

The Woman from Mellon's

1910

From Farm to Fame

19228.0

The Master and the Man

1911

The Call of the Song

1911

Artful Kate

19113.0

The Convert

19119.0

Honor Thy Father

1912

Behind the Stockade

1911

A Gasoline Engagement

1911

While There is hope, There is Life

1911

His Dress Shirt

1911