Mary Pickford

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1892-04-07

Deathday 1979-05-29 (87 years old)

Place of Birth Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Also Known As Baby Gladys, Gladys Marie Smith, Catherine Hennessey, Dorothy Nicholson, Gladys Nicholson, Baby Gladys Smith

Mary Pickford

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.

Known For

Actor

2017
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

2016
The Women Who Run Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

2013
Birth of the Tramp

as Self (archive footage)

2010
Sigrid Holmquist

as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

2010
Smash His Camera

as Self (archive footage)

2008
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies

as Self (archive footage)

2007
2005
2005
Mary Pickford

as Self/Archival Footage

2003
Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush'

as Self (archive footage)

2002
The Tramp and the Dictator

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2000
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film

as Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)

1998
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

as Self / Various roles (archive footage)

1985
What Do Those Old Films Mean?

as Herself(archive footage)

1982
Hollywood’s Children

as Self (archive footage)

1961
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

as Self (archive footage)

1953
Yesterday and Today

as (archive footage)

1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self (archive footage)

1939
Hollywood Hobbies

as Self (uncredited)

1933
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1933
Secrets

as Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton

1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4

as Self (uncredited)

1931
The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

1931
Kiki

as Kiki

1930
The Voice of Hollywood

as Self/Queen of the Movies

1929
1929
Coquette

as Norma Besant

1927
The Gaucho

as The Virgin Mary

1927
My Best Girl

as Maggie Johnson

1927
One of Many

as Archive footage

1927
A Kiss from Mary Pickford

as Self (archive footage)

1926
Sparrows

as Molly

1926
The Black Pirate

as Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)

1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

1925
Little Annie Rooney

as Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney

1924
1923
Rosita

as Rosita

1923
Hollywood

as Mary Pickford

1922
Tess of the Storm Country

as Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner

1922
From Farm to Fame

as Mary Pickford

1921
Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Cedric Errol / Widow Errol

1921
1921
The Love Light

as Angela Carlotti

1920
Suds

as Amanda Afflick

1920
Pollyanna

as Pollyanna Whittier

1919
Heart o' the Hills

as Mavis Hawn

1919
The Hoodlum

as Amy Burke

1919
Daddy-Long-Legs

as Judy Abbott

1919
Captain Kidd, Jr.

as Mary MacTavish

1918
100% American

as Mayme

1918
Johanna Enlists

as Johanna Renssaller

1918
How Could You, Jean?

as Jean Mackaye

1918
M'Liss

as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith

1918
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

as Amarilly Jenkins

1918
Stella Maris

as Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake

1917
A Little Princess

as Sara Crewe

1917
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

as Rebecca Randall

1917
The Little American

as Angela Moore

1917
A Romance of the Redwoods

as Jenny Lawrence

1917
The Pride of the Clan

as Marget MacTavish

1916
1916
1916
1916
1916
The Foundling

as Molly O

1915
Madame Butterfly

as Cho-Cho-San

1915
A Girl of Yesterday

as Jane Stuart

1915
Esmeralda

as Esmeralda Rogers

1915
Rags

as Rags / Alice McCloud

1915
The Foundling

as Molly O

1915
Little Pal

as 'Little Pal'

1915
Fanchon, the Cricket

as Fanchon, the Cricket

1915
Mistress Nell

as Nell Gwyn

1914
Cinderella

as Cinderella

1914
Behind the Scenes

as Dolly Lane

1914
Such a Little Queen

as Queen Anna Victoria

1914
The Eagle's Mate

as Anemone Breckenridge

1914
Tess of the Storm Country

as Tessibel Skinner

1914
1914
1913
Caprice

as Mercy Baxter

1913
1913
The Unwelcome Guest

as Jessie - the Slavey

1912
The New York Hat

as Mary Harding, the Daughter

1912
The Informer

as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart

1912
My Baby

as The Wife

1912
The One She Loved

as The Wife

1912
1912
So Near, Yet So Far

as The Young Woman

1912
Friends

as Dora - the Orphan

1912
A Pueblo Legend

as The Indian Girl

1912
1912
The Inner Circle

as The Rich Italian's Daughter

1912
The Narrow Road

as Mrs. Jim Holcomb

1912
An Indian Summer

as The Widow's Daughter

1912
1912
1912
Home Folks

as The Young Woman

1912
A Beast at Bay

as The Young Woman

1912
A Lodging for the Night

as The Mexican Girl

1912
The Old Actor

as The Old Actor's Daughter

1912
Won by a Fish

as The Woman

1912
Just Like a Woman

as The Young Woman

1912
The Female of the Species

as The Miner's Wife's Sister

1912
Fate's Interception

as The Mexican Girl

1912
1912
A Timely Repentance

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

1912
The Mender of Nets

as The Little Net-Mender

1912
Honor Thy Father

as Mary Fuller

1911
The Caddy's Dream

as Miss Kelsomine

1911
1911
The Portrait

as Little Vera - the Model

1911
Little Red Riding Hood

as Little Red Riding Hood

1911
From the Bottom of the Sea

as Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)

1911
His Dress Shirt

as Mrs. Kirby

1911
The Better Way

as Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass

1911
The Sentinel Asleep

as Unknown Role

1911
The Rose's Story

as Unknown Role

1911
1911
The Toss of a Coin

as Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter

1911
The Call of the Song

as Amy Gordon

1911
The Skating Bug

as The Girl

1911
Science

as Mrs. Crawford

1911
At a Quarter of Two

as Mrs Warren

1911
A Gasoline Engagement

as Flora Powell

1911
For the Queen's Honor

as Princess Gilda

1911
Behind the Stockade

as Florence Williams

1911
Back to the Soil

as Sadie Allen

1911
The Lighthouse Keeper

as Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

1911
The Master and the Man

as Elsie Graham

1911
For Her Brother's Sake

as Madge Spotwood

1911
The Fair Dentist

as Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist

1911
The Temptress

as Lucille Allen

1911
Second Sight

as Gertrude Edgar

1911
The Stampede

as Nello

1911
Sweet Memories

as Polly Biblett

1911
The Fisher-Maid

as Paula, The Fishing-Maid

1911
The Secret of the Palm

as Unknown Role

1911
The Message in the Bottle

as Louise Spencer

1911
Tracked

as Unknown Role

1911
A Manly Man

as Lola

1911
Artful Kate

as Artful Kate Stanley

1911
The Convert

as Agnes Boyd

1911
1911
The Mirror

as Dorothy

1911
When the Cat's Away

as Dorothy, The Wife

1911
1911
Maid or Man

as Elsie Keene

1911
The Dream

as Nell Herbert

1911
1911
1910
White Roses

as Betty

1910
A Plain Song

as Edith

1910
Simple Charity

as Miss Wilkins

1910
Waiter No. 5

as The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée

1910
1910
1910
1910
Wilful Peggy

as Peggy

1910
The Usurer

as Invalid Daughter

1910
An Arcadian Maid

as The Arcadian Maid

1910
The Call to Arms

as A Messenger

1910
1910
1910
1910
Never Again

as The Girl

1910
1910
A Victim of Jealousy

as The Wife's Friend

1910
Ramona

as Ramona

1910
The Two Brothers

as A Mexican

1910
Love Among the Roses

as The Lacemaker

1910
The Unchanging Sea

as The Daughter as an Adult

1910
A Rich Revenge

as Jennie

1910
The Smoker

as George's Wife

1910
The Twisted Trail

as Molly Hendricks

1910
1910
The Newlyweds

as Alice Vance

1910
The Woman from Mellon's

as Mary Petersby

1910
All on Account of the Milk

as The Young Woman

1909
The Heart of an Outlaw

as The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult

1909
To Save Her Soul

as Agnes Hailey

1909
The Test

as Bessie

1909
1909
The Trick that Failed

as Nellie Burt

1909
The Mountaineer's Honor

as Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl

1909
1909
The Restoration

as Alice Ashford

1909
The Gibson Goddess

as Woman on Sidewalk

1909
1909
1909
In the Watches of the Night

as Girl at Henry Brainard's

1909
1909
The Little Teacher

as The Little Teacher

1909
Pippa Passes

as Girl in crowd

1909
The Awakening

as The Widow's Daughter

1909
In Old Kentucky

as Partygoer

1909
The Broken Locket

as Ruth King

1909
Getting Even

as Miss Lucy

1909
1776, or The Hessian Renegades

as Messenger's Sister

1909
The Sealed Room

as A Lady-in-Waiting

1909
The Little Darling

as Little Darling

1909
Oh, Uncle!

as Bessie

1909
The Seventh Day

as The Maid

1909
The Indian Runner's Romance

as Blue Cloud's Wife

1909
His Wife's Visitor

as Bessie Wright

1909
1909
The Slave

as A Slave Girl

1909
1909
The Renunciation

as Kittie Ryan

1909
Tender Hearts

as Nellie

1909
The Cardinal's Conspiracy

as A Disguised Servant

1909
The Country Doctor

as Poor Mother's Elder Daughter

1909
The Necklace

as The Maid / In Pawnshop

1909
The Way of Man

as Winnie, Mabel's Cousin

1909
The Peachbasket Hat

as On street/In store

1909
The Mexican Sweethearts

as The Señorita

1909
Her First Biscuits

as Biscuit Victim

1909
The Faded Lilies

as At party

1909
1909
The Violin Maker of Cremona

as Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter

1909
His Duty

as A young woman in the street

1909
Two Memories

as Marion's Sister

Producer

1949
Love Happy

as Executive Producer

1948
Sleep, My Love

as Producer

1947
White Cradle Inn

as Producer

1947
Stork Bites Man

as Producer

1946
Little Iodine

as Executive Producer

1936
The Gay Desperado

as Producer

1936
1933
Secrets

as Executive Producer

1929
Coquette

as Producer

1927
My Best Girl

as Producer

1926
Sparrows

as Producer

1925
1923
Rosita

as Producer

1921
The Love Light

as Producer

1921
1921
1920
Pollyanna

as Producer

1920
Suds

as Producer

1919
Daddy-Long-Legs

as Producer

1919
The Hoodlum

as Executive Producer

1918
Johanna Enlists

as Executive Producer

1918
1917
1917
A Little Princess

as Producer

1916
1916
Less Than the Dust

as Producer

Writer

1925
1923
1914
Hearts Adrift

as Writer

1912
Lena and the Geese

as Screenplay

1911
Madame Rex

as Writer

1911
Caught in the Act

as Screenplay

1911
The Medallion

as Screenplay

1909
The Day After

as Writer

1909
The Awakening

as Screenplay

Director