Mary Pickford

human
Ein sex anaa gender	female
Country wey e be citizen	Canada
Name in native language	Mary Pickford
Birth name	Gladys Louise Smith
Name wey dem give am	Mary
Family name	Pickford
Pseudonym	Mary Pickford
Ein date of birth	8 April 1892
Place dem born am	Toronto
Date wey edie	29 May 1979
Place wey edie	Santa Monica
Manner of death	natural causes
Cause of death	cerebral hemorrhage
Place wey dem bury am	Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Ein poppie	John Charles Smith
Mummie	Charlotte Hennessy
Sibling	Jack Pickford, Lottie Pickford, Olive Thomas
Spouse	Owen Moore, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Rogers
Native language	English
Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign	English
Writing language	English
Residence	Toronto
Work location	United States, Canada
Work period (start)	1909
Work period (end)	1949
Political party ein member	Republican Party
Religion anaa worldview	Catholicism, Methodism, Christian Science
Filmography	Mary Pickford filmography
Dey archive for	Mary Pickford Foundation
Award e receive	Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Honorary Award, Canada's Walk of Fame, Golden Boot Awards, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Dem nominate for	Academy Award for Best Actress
Time period	20th century
Documentation files at	SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts

Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), she be known professionally as Mary Pickford, na she be Canadian-American stage den screen actress den producer wey ein career span five decades. She be pioneer for de US film industry insyd, she co-found Pickford–Fairbanks Studios den United Artists, wey she san so be one of de 36 founders of de Academy of Motion Picture Arts den Sciences.^[1] Dem dey consider Pickford she be one of de most recognisable women for history insyd.^[2]

Early life

Na dem born Mary Pickford as Gladys Louise Smith wey^[3] insyd 1892, at 211 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario,^[2] now de location of de Hospital for Sick Children. Na ein poppie, John Charles Smith, be de son of English Methodist immigrants, wey he work variety of odd jobs. Na ein mommie, Charlotte Hennessey, be of Irish Catholic descent wey she work for a time as a seamstress. Na she get two younger siblings, both actors. Na dem bill Charlotte as "Lottie Pickford" (born 1893) wey na dem bill John Charles Jr. as "Jack Pickford" (born 1896). Make dem please ein husby ein relatives, Pickford ein mommie baptize ein kiddies as Methodists, de religion of dema poppie. Na John Charles Sr. be alcoholic. He die for February 11, 1898, from a fatal blood clot cause by a workplace accident wen na he be a purser plus Niagara Steamship.^[2]

References

↑ "Mary Pickford, 86, First Great Film Star, Dies Five Days After Massive Stroke". Daily Variety. May 30, 1979. p. 1.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Whitfield, Eileen: Pickford: the Woman Who Made Hollywood (1997), pp. 8, 25, 28, 115, 125, 126, 131, 300, 376. University Press of Kentucky; ISBN 0-8131-2045-4
↑ Biography, pbs.org. Accessed December 20, 2023.

Read further

Schmidt, Christel, ed. (2013). Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies. Library of Congress/University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-3647-9.
Schmidt, Christel (2003). "Preserving Pickford: The Mary Pickford Collection and the Library of Congress". The Moving Image. 3 (1). Association of Moving Image Archivists: 59–81. doi:10.1353/mov.2003.0013. S2CID 191609277.
Harris, Gloria G.; Hannah S. Cohen (2012). "Chapter 10. Entertainers". Women Trailblazers of California: Pioneers to the Present. Charleston, SC: The History Press. pp. 151–65 [163–66]. ISBN 978-1609496753.
Petersen, Anne (2014). Scandals of Classic Hollywood. Penguin Publishing.
Gladys goes to Hollywood at 100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces, by Merna Forster, via Google Books, pp. 204 sq.

External links

Mary Pickford at de Internet Broadway Database
Mary Pickford at IMDb
Mary Pickford at de Women Film Pioneers Project
About Mary Pickford, from de Mary Pickford Foundation website
Mary Pickford CBC Radio interview May 25, 1959
Mary Pickford at de Encyclopædia Britannica
Footage of Mary Pickford with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks in 1919
Mary Pickford at Virtual History
Mary Pickford–Buddy Rogers correspondence, 1943–1976, hold by de Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Mary Pickford scrapbook, 1915–1917, hold by de Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Mary Pickford papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Mary Pickford – Whose Real Name is Gladys Smith from Current Opinion Magazine, June, 1918

[1] "Mary Pickford, 86, First Great Film Star, Dies Five Days After Massive Stroke". Daily Variety. May 30, 1979. p. 1.

[:0-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Whitfield, Eileen: Pickford: the Woman Who Made Hollywood (1997), pp. 8, 25, 28, 115, 125, 126, 131, 300, 376. University Press of Kentucky; ISBN 0-8131-2045-4

[3] Biography, pbs.org. Accessed December 20, 2023.

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