Mary Pickford
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1930 Best Actress Won Coquette
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
56 credits
American Experience
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
A Kiss from Mary Pickford
100% American
Astrid
The Women Who Run Hollywood
The Black Pirate
Mistress Nell
Caprice
White Roses
Rags
Madame Butterfly
Science
Cinderella
Esmeralda
Hearts Adrift
One of Many
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
What the Daisy Said
Three Sisters
The Renunciation
Mary Pickford
The Foundling
The Medallion
Love Heeds Not Showers
A Good Little Devil
A Lucky Toothache
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Hooray for Hollywood
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
To Save Her Soul
Birth of the Tramp
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Hollywood
The Love Light
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
His Lost Love
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
My Baby
The Gaucho
Hollywood’s Children
The One She Loved
The House That Shadows Built
Fanchon, the Cricket
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Heart o' the Hills
The Gibson Goddess
The Little American
Tess of the Storm Country
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
Kiki
The Sealed Room
Anniversary
Producing
5 credits
Other credits
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Writing
2 credits
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