Mary Pickford

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.

Cast

The Sealed Room

A Lady-in-Waiting

Hollywood on Parade No. A-4

Self (uncredited)

Yesterday and Today

(archive footage)

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5

Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake

Daddy-Long-Legs

Tess of the Storm Country

Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner

The Pride of the Clan

Marget MacTavish

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

Self (archive footage)

The Poor Little Rich Girl

Through the Back Door

Jeanne Bodamere

Pollyanna Whittier

The Old Actor's Daughter

Little Annie Rooney

Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney

The New York Hat

Mary Harding, the Daughter

From Farm to Fame

A Little Princess

A Good Little Devil

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

Amarilly Jenkins

A Sweet Revenge

The Little Darling

So Near, Yet So Far

The Young Woman

The Mender of Nets

The Little Net-Mender

The Renunciation

The Young Woman

Dora - the Orphan

The Narrow Road

Mrs. Jim Holcomb

The School Teacher and the Waif

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

Self/Archival Footage

Tess of the Storm Country

Tessibel Skinner

Madame Butterfly

A Romance of the Redwoods

Johanna Enlists

Johanna Renssaller

Heart o' the Hills

Melissa 'M'liss' Smith

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Cedric Errol / Widow Errol

Angela Carlotti

The Unchanging Sea

The Daughter as an Adult

A Kiss from Mary Pickford

Self (archive footage)

An Arcadian Maid

The Arcadian Maid

As It Is in Life

Daughter (Adult)

What the Daisy Said

Poor Little Peppina

The Mountaineer's Honor

Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl

The Violin Maker of Cremona

Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter

Hollywood Hobbies

Self (uncredited)

Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton

The Little American

The Eternal Grind

Fanchon, the Cricket

Fanchon, the Cricket

The Taming of the Shrew

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Rebecca Randall

Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush

Self (archive footage)

Captain Kidd, Jr.

How Could You, Jean?

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Son's Return

Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Lonely Villa

A Pueblo Legend

The Indian Girl

The Gibson Goddess

Woman on Sidewalk

Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse

The Light That Came

The Country Doctor

Poor Mother's Elder Daughter

Her First Biscuits

A Strange Meeting

The Black Pirate

Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)

Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm

Love Among the Roses

The Broken Locket

The Indian Runner's Romance

Blue Cloud's Wife

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

The Italian Barber

Artful Kate Stanley

The Widow's Daughter

Winnie, Mabel's Cousin

Such a Little Queen

Queen Anna Victoria

Self (archive footage)

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

Self (archive footage)

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove

The Voice of Hollywood

Self/Queen of the Movies

Marion's Sister

Sweet and Twenty

As a Boy Dreams

Less Than the Dust

The Little Teacher

The Little Teacher

The Thread of Destiny

A Romance of the Western Hills

In the Season of Buds

The Woman from Mellon's

What Do Those Old Films Mean?

Herself(archive footage)

The Twisted Trail

Molly Hendricks

The Englishman and the Girl

The Two Brothers

All on Account of the Milk

The Young Woman

For Her Brother's Sake

The Master and the Man

A Victim of Jealousy

The Wife's Friend

May and December

Muggsy's First Sweetheart

A Child's Impulse

Their First Misunderstanding

The Lighthouse Keeper

Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

Back to the Soil

The Call to Arms

A Lucky Toothache

The Sorrows of the Unfaithful

Muggsy Becomes a Hero

When We Were in Our 'Teens

A Gold Necklace

In the Bishop's Carriage

Hulda from Holland

A Girl of Yesterday

Rags / Alice McCloud

The Virgin Mary

The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée

The Song of the Wildwood Flute

For the Queen's Honor

The Female of the Species

The Miner's Wife's Sister

Esmeralda Rogers

In the Sultan's Garden

When a Man Loves

The Eagle's Mate

Anemone Breckenridge

When the Cat's Away

Dorothy, The Wife

A Gasoline Engagement

His Wife's Visitor

At a Quarter of Two

Her Darkest Hour

Behind the Scenes

A Decree of Destiny

The Fisher-Maid

Paula, The Fishing-Maid

The Message in the Bottle

The Peachbasket Hat

On street/In store

The Secret of the Palm

A young woman in the street

The Faded Lilies

The Maid / In Pawnshop

The Mexican Sweethearts

They Would Elope

The Cardinal's Conspiracy

A Disguised Servant

The Dawn of a Tomorrow

While There is hope, There is Life

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

Messenger's Sister

The Seventh Day

In the Watches of the Night

Girl at Henry Brainard's

In Old Kentucky

The Skating Bug

A Lodging for the Night

The Mexican Girl

What's Your Hurry?

The Call of the Song

The Toss of a Coin

Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter

The Unwelcome Guest

Jessie - the Slavey

The Fair Dentist

Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist

The Trick that Failed

The Heart of an Outlaw

The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult

A Midnight Adventure

The Restoration

Through the Breakers

To Save Her Soul

The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart

The Courting of Mary

Love Heeds Not Showers

The One She Loved

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood

Honor Thy Father

The Caddy's Dream

The Inner Circle

The Rich Italian's Daughter

With the Enemy's Help

Lena and the Geese

An Indian Summer

The Widow's Daughter

'Tween Two Loves

Just Like a Woman

The Young Woman

The Young Woman

The Rose's Story

How Mary Fixed it

His Dress Shirt

The Sentinel Asleep

A Timely Repentance

Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'

Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass

Little Vera - the Model

Fate's Interception

The Mexican Girl

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Self (archive footage)

Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

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

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

The Tramp and the Dictator

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sigrid Holmquist

Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Self (voice) (archive footage)

The House That Shadows Built

(archive footage)

Birth of the Tramp

Self (archive footage)

The Women Who Run Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Behind the Stockade

Florence Williams

From the Bottom of the Sea

Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

Self - Actress (archive footage)

Hollywood’s Children

Self (archive footage)

Invalid Daughter

That Chink at Golden Gulch

Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler

Self (archive footage)

Hooray for Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe

Self (archive footage)

Murders of Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)

The Way of the World

Dora (Archive Footage)

Mondo Hollywood

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

Self (archive footage)

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10

The Casting Couch

Self (archive footage)

Decasia: The State of Decay

Self (archive footage)

Crew

The Gay Desperado

Poor Little Peppina

One Rainy Afternoon

Little Annie Rooney

Writer, Producer

Johanna Enlists

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Less Than the Dust

The Little American

A Little Princess

How Could You, Jean?

Daddy-Long-Legs

Through the Back Door

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

Producer, Director

Tess of the Storm Country

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Caught in the Act

Garrison's Finish

Executive Producer

White Cradle Inn

Stork Bites Man

Lena and the Geese

May and December