Originally Gladys Smith, Mary Pickford's onscreen persona “Little-Mary” and off screen image as Mary Pickford. She was a successful actress and businesswoman despite a rough childhood. Mary was born on April 8, 1892, in Toronto Canada, then moving to the United states as a young girl. During her career as an actress she was most known as America's sweetheart. When Pickford was six her father died of cerebral hemorrhaging, and instead of being able to go to school, she was sent to work. Mary had her break at age 15 when she impressed a major broadway producer. She also help found the board of artists, and retired at a very young age. Although never attending school she was recognized as one of the most famous woman in america.
As a young girl she was raised by her grandparents because of her father's alcoholism, and untimely death. Her father left shortly after she was born and died later, unexpectedly of cerebral hemorrhaging, and her mother died of breast cancer. Pickfords first job was an assistant seamstress at age 6, to help pay for living expenses. Eleven years later she toured as a vaudeville actress. Once on broadway she acted in “The Warrens of Virginia” and many more. She is probably most known for her role in “Coquette”. When Pickford was an actress in the “talkies” she made over 80 films, receiving 2 oscars during her lifetime. She started the film business by working with D.W. Griffith, who at the time was directing silent pictures. Initially, he offered her 5 dollars a day like all the other actors with the studio, but Pickford held out for a guarantee of 40 dollars a week after only one day of work. Because she churned out many short one-reelers, Pickford stacked up a number of credits in short order, including "T...
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...videotape at Pickfair. On May 29, 1979, Pickford suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died at 87 years old, just like her father.
She left behind a legacy as the biggest star of the silent era, she inspired for a new century and a new american art form. “For world popularity, pickford is the greatest american, the greatest world citizen... the world evangel.”- 1920 St. Louis Globe Dispatch. Her image is the sentimental victorian, female ideal of a modern women of the 1910’s to the 1930’s.
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