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.
Filmography
all 280
Movies 279
self 30
Producer 7
Writer 3
Screenplay 2
TV Shows 1
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)
The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016)
Birth of the Tramp (2013)
Sigrid Holmquist (2010)
Smash His Camera (2010)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler (2005)
Mary Pickford (2005)
Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush' (2003)
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 (2002)
The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)
Decasia (2002)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (2000)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998)
The Casting Couch (1995)
American Experience (1988)
What Do Those Old Films Mean? (1985)
The Flapper Story (1985)
Hollywood’s Children (1982)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
Yesterday and Today (1953)
Love Happy (1949)
Sleep, My Love (1948)
Stork Bites Man (1947)
White Cradle Inn (1947)
Little Iodine (1946)
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
Hollywood Hobbies (1939)
The Gay Desperado (1936)
One Rainy Afternoon (1936)
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)
A Penny a Peep (1934)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933)
Secrets (1933)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4 (1932)
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
Kiki (1931)
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 (1930)
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 21 (1930)
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 14 (1930)
The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
Coquette (1929)
The Gaucho (1927)
My Best Girl (1927)
One From Many (1927)
A Kiss from Mary Pickford (1927)
Sparrows (1926)
The Black Pirate (1926)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Little Annie Rooney (1925)
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924)
Rosita (1923)
Hollywood (1923)
Garrison's Finish (1923)
Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
From Farm to Fame (1922)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
Through The Back Door (1921)
The Love Light (1921)
Suds (1920)
Pollyanna (1920)
Heart o' the Hills (1919)
The Hoodlum (1919)
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919)
100% American (1918)
Johanna Enlists (1918)
Cupid Angling (1918)
How Could You, Jean? (1918)
M'Liss (1918)
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
Stella Maris (1918)
A Little Princess (1917)
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan (1917)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
The Little American (1917)
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
The Pride of the Clan (1917)
Less Than the Dust (1916)
Hulda from Holland (1916)
The Eternal Grind (1916)
Poor Little Peppina (1916)
The Foundling (1916)
Madame Butterfly (1915)
A Girl of Yesterday (1915)
Esmeralda (1915)
Rags (1915)
The Foundling (1915)
Little Pal (1915)
The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915)
Fanchon, the Cricket (1915)
Mistress Nell (1915)
Cinderella (1914)
Behind the Scenes (1914)
Such a Little Queen (1914)
The Eagle's Mate (1914)
Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
A Good Little Devil (1914)
Hearts Adrift (1914)
Caprice (1913)
In the Bishop's Carriage (1913)
The Unwelcome Guest (1913)
The New York Hat (1912)
The Informer (1912)
My Baby (1912)
The One She Loved (1912)
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912)
So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
Friends (1912)
A Pueblo Legend (1912)
With the Enemy's Help (1912)
The Inner Circle (1912)
The Narrow Road (1912)
An Indian Summer (1912)
The School Teacher and the Waif (1912)
Lena and the Geese (1912)
Home Folks (1912)
A Beast at Bay (1912)
A Lodging for the Night (1912)
The Old Actor (1912)
Won by a Fish (1912)
Just Like a Woman (1912)
The Female of the Species (1912)
A Siren of Impulse (1912)
Fate's Interception (1912)
Iola's Promise (1912)
A Timely Repentance (1912)
The Mender of Nets (1912)
Honor Thy Father (1912)
The Caddy's Dream (1911)
How Mary Fixed it (1911)
The Portrait (1911)
Little Red Riding Hood (1911)
Love Heeds Not Showers (1911)
The Courting of Mary (1911)
From the Bottom of the Sea (1911)
His Dress Shirt (1911)
The Better Way (1911)
The Sentinel Asleep (1911)
The Rose's Story (1911)
'Tween Two Loves (1911)
By the House That Jack Built (1911)
The Toss of a Coin (1911)
The Call of the Song (1911)
As a Boy Dreams (1911)
The Skating Bug (1911)
Science (1911)
At a Quarter of Two (1911)
Caught in the Act (1911)
A Gasoline Engagement (1911)
For the Queen's Honor (1911)
In the Sultan's Garden (1911)
Behind the Stockade (1911)
Back to the Soil (1911)
The Lighthouse Keeper (1911)
The Master and the Man (1911)
For Her Brother's Sake (1911)
The Fair Dentist (1911)
The Temptress (1911)
Second Sight (1911)
While There is hope, There is Life (1911)
The Stampede (1911)
Madame Rex (1911)
Sweet Memories (1911)
In Old Madrid (1911)
The Fisher-Maid (1911)
The Secret of the Palm (1911)
The Message in the Bottle (1911)
The Medallion (1911)
A Decree of Destiny (1911)
Tracked (1911)
A Manly Man (1911)
Artful Kate (1911)
At the Duke's Command (1911)
The Convert (1911)
Her Darkest Hour (1911)
The Mirror (1911)
When the Cat's Away (1911)
Three Sisters (1911)
Maid or Man (1911)
The Dream (1911)
The Italian Barber (1911)
Their First Misunderstanding (1911)
When a Man Loves (1911)
A Dog's Tale (1911)
White Roses (1910)
Little Nell's Tobacco (1910)
A Plain Song (1910)
The Song of the Wildwood Flute (1910)
Sunshine Sue (1910)
Simple Charity (1910)
Waiter No. 5 (1910)
A Lucky Toothache (1910)
That Chink at Golden Gulch (1910)
A Gold Necklace (1910)
Muggsy Becomes a Hero (1910)
Wilful Peggy (1910)
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910)
When We Were in Our 'Teens (1910)
The Usurer (1910)
An Arcadian Maid (1910)
The Call to Arms (1910)
What the Daisy Said (1910)
Muggsy's First Sweetheart (1910)
A Child's Impulse (1910)
Never Again (1910)
May and December (1910)
A Victim of Jealousy (1910)
In the Season of Buds (1910)
Ramona (1910)
The Two Brothers (1910)
Love Among the Roses (1910)
The Unchanging Sea (1910)
The Kid (1910)
A Romance of the Western Hills (1910)
A Rich Revenge (1910)
As It Is in Life (1910)
The Smoker (1910)
His Last Dollar (1910)
The Twisted Trail (1910)
The Thread of Destiny (1910)
The Newlyweds (1910)
The Englishman and the Girl (1910)
The Woman from Mellon's (1910)
All on Account of the Milk (1910)
The Heart of an Outlaw (1909)
The Day After (1909)
To Save Her Soul (1909)
The Test (1909)
Through the Breakers (1909)
The Trick that Failed (1909)
The Mountaineer's Honor (1909)
A Midnight Adventure (1909)
A Sweet Revenge (1909)
The Light That Came (1909)
The Restoration (1909)
What's Your Hurry? (1909)
The Gibson Goddess (1909)
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909)
In the Watches of the Night (1909)
The Children's Friend (1909)
His Lost Love (1909)
The Little Teacher (1909)
Pippa Passes (1909)
The Awakening (1909)
In Old Kentucky (1909)
The Broken Locket (1909)
Getting Even (1909)
1776, or The Hessian Renegades (1909)
The Sealed Room (1909)
The Little Darling (1909)
The Seventh Day (1909)
Oh, Uncle! (1909)
The Indian Runner's Romance (1909)
His Wife's Visitor (1909)
They Would Elope (1909)
A Strange Meeting (1909)
The Slave (1909)
Sweet and Twenty (1909)
Tender Hearts (1909)
The Renunciation (1909)
The Cardinal's Conspiracy (1909)
The Country Doctor (1909)
The Necklace (1909)
The Way of Man (1909)
The Mexican Sweethearts (1909)
The Peachbasket Hat (1909)
Her First Biscuits (1909)
The Faded Lilies (1909)
The Son's Return (1909)
The Lonely Villa (1909)
The Violin Maker of Cremona (1909)
His Duty (1909)
Two Memories (1909)
Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)
Little Miss Dolittle
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1892-04-08
Deathday1979-05-29 (87 years old)
Birth NameGladys Louise Smith
Birth PlaceToronto, Canada
ReligionCatholicism
Height
RelationshipsCharles Rogers (1937-06-24 - 1979-05-29), Owen Moore (1911-01-07 - 1920-03-02), Douglas Fairbanks (1920-03-28 - 1936-01-10)
FatherJohn Charles Smith
MotherCharlotte Hennessy
SiblingsLottie Pickford, Olive Thomas, Jack Pickford
CitizenshipsCanada
ResidencesToronto, Canada
Also Known AsBaby Gladys, Gladys Marie Smith, Catherine Hennessey, Dorothy Nicholson, Gladys Nicholson, Baby Gladys Smith
AwardsAcademy Honorary Award, Academy Award for Best Actress, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Golden Boot Awards, Canada's Walk of Fame
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