Mary Pickford began in the theater at age seven. Then known as "Baby Gladys Smith", she toured with her family in a number of theater companies. In 1907, she adopted a family name Pickford and joined the David Belasco troupe, appearing in the long-running The Warrens of Virginia". She began in films in 1909 with the 'American Mutoscope & Biograph [us]', working with director D.W. Griffith. For a short time in 1911, to earn more money, she joined the IMP Film Co. under Carl Laemmle. She returned to Biograph in 1912, and, in 1913 joined the Famous Players Film Company under Adolph Zukor. She then joined First National Exhibitor's Circuit in 1918. In 1919 she helped to establish United Artists. Date of Death 29 May 1979, Santa Monica, California (cerebral hemorrhage)
Movie | Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts | Self - Actress (archive footage) | 2017-06-14 |
Movie | The Women Who Run Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2016-05-16 |
Movie | Birth of the Tramp | Self (archive footage) | 2013-12-29 |
Movie | Smash His Camera | Self (archive footage) | 2010-07-30 |
Movie | Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies | Self (archive footage) | 2008-08-29 |
Movie | Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self (voice) (archive footage) | 2007-05-23 |
Movie | Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush' | Self (archive footage) | 2003-07-01 |
Movie | The Tramp and the Dictator | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-02-14 |
Movie | Mary Pickford: A Life on Film | Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2000-09-12 |
Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
Movie | Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 | 1941-12-05 | |
Movie | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self (archive footage) | 1940-07-31 |
Movie | Hollywood Hobbies | Self (uncredited) | 1939-05-03 |
Movie | Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove | Self | 1934-12-01 |
Movie | Secrets | Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton | 1933-03-16 |
Movie | Kiki | Kiki | 1931-03-14 |
Movie | The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931-07-08 |
Movie | The Taming of the Shrew | Caterina | 1929-10-26 |
Movie | Coquette | Norma Besant | 1929-03-30 |
Movie | A Kiss from Mary Pickford | Self (archive footage) | 1927-09-08 |
Movie | One From Many | Herself (archive footage) | 1927-10-31 |
Movie | My Best Girl | Maggie Johnson | 1927-10-31 |
Movie | The Gaucho | The Virgin Mary | 1927-11-21 |
Movie | The Black Pirate | Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited) | 1926-03-08 |
Movie | Little Annie Rooney | Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney | 1925-10-18 |
Movie | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
Movie | Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall | Dorothy Vernon | 1924-05-24 |
Movie | Hollywood | Mary Pickford | 1923-08-19 |
Movie | Rosita | Rosita | 1923-09-03 |
Movie | Tess of the Storm Country | Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner | 1922-11-12 |
Movie | The Love Light | Angela Carlotti | 1921-01-08 |
Movie | Through The Back Door | Jeanne | 1921-05-05 |
Movie | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Cedric Errol / Widow Errol | 1921-09-15 |
Movie | Pollyanna | Pollyanna Whittier | 1920-01-18 |
Movie | Suds | Amanda Afflick | 1920-01-27 |
Movie | Captain Kidd, Jr. | Mary MacTavish | 1919-04-05 |
Movie | Daddy-Long-Legs | Judy Abbott | 1919-05-11 |
Movie | The Hoodlum | Amy Burke | 1919-08-31 |
Movie | Heart o' the Hills | Mavis Hawn | 1919-11-30 |
Movie | Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley | Amarilly Jenkins | 1918-03-10 |
Movie | Stella Maris | Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake | 1918-01-21 |
Movie | M'Liss | Melissa 'M'liss' Smith | 1918-05-05 |
Movie | Johanna Enlists | Johanna Renssaller | 1918-09-14 |
Movie | How Could You, Jean? | Jean Mackaye | 1918-06-29 |
Movie | 100% American | Mayme | 1918-10-04 |
Movie | A Romance of the Redwoods | Jenny Lawrence | 1917-05-14 |
Movie | The Poor Little Rich Girl | Gwen | 1917-03-05 |
Movie | The Little American | Angela Moore | 1917-07-12 |
Movie | The Pride of the Clan | Marget MacTavish | 1917-01-07 |
Movie | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Rebecca Randall | 1917-09-22 |
Movie | A Little Princess | Sara Crewe | 1917-11-05 |
Movie | All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan | 1917-10-01 | |
Movie | The Foundling | Molly O | 1916-01-03 |
Movie | Poor Little Peppina | Peppina | 1916-03-02 |
Movie | The Eternal Grind | Louise | 1916-04-17 |
Movie | Less Than the Dust | Radha | 1916-11-04 |
Movie | Hulda from Holland | Hulda | 1916-07-31 |
Movie | Fanchon, the Cricket | Fanchon, the Cricket | 1915-05-10 |
Movie | Mistress Nell | Nell Gwyn | 1915-02-01 |
Movie | The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Glad | 1915-06-07 |
Movie | Esmeralda | Esmeralda Rogers | 1915-09-06 |
Movie | A Girl of Yesterday | Jane Stuart | 1915-10-07 |
Movie | Madame Butterfly | Cho-Cho-San | 1915-11-07 |
Movie | A Good Little Devil | Juliet | 1914-03-01 |
Movie | Hearts Adrift | Nina | 1914-02-09 |
Movie | Tess of the Storm Country | Tessibel Skinner | 1914-03-30 |
Movie | Such a Little Queen | Queen Anna Victoria | 1914-09-20 |
Movie | Cinderella | Cinderella | 1914-12-28 |
Movie | Behind the Scenes | Dolly Lane | 1914-10-26 |
Movie | The Eagle's Mate | Anemone Breckenridge | 1914-07-10 |
Movie | Fate | Unknown Role | 1913-03-22 |
Movie | A Beast at Bay | The Young Woman | 1912-05-26 |
Movie | The School Teacher and the Waif | Nora, the Waif | 1912-06-26 |
Movie | The Old Actor | The Old Actor's Daughter | 1912-05-06 |
Movie | The Mender of Nets | The Little Net-Mender | 1912-02-15 |
Movie | The New York Hat | Mary Harding, the Daughter | 1912-12-05 |
Movie | An Indian Summer | The Widow's Daughter | 1912-07-08 |
Movie | Lena and the Geese | Lena | 1912-06-17 |
Movie | So Near, Yet So Far | The Young Woman | 1912-09-29 |
Movie | The Narrow Road | Mrs. Jim Holcomb | 1912-08-01 |
Movie | Friends | Dora - the Orphan | 1912-09-22 |
Movie | The Informer | The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart | 1912-11-21 |
Movie | A Pueblo Legend | The Indian Girl | 1912-08-29 |
Movie | With the Enemy's Help | Faro Kate | 1912-08-19 |
Movie | Artful Kate | Artful Kate Stanley | 1911-02-23 |
Movie | Pictureland | Unconfimed Role | 1911-02-20 |
Movie | The Mirror | Dorothy | 1911-02-09 |
Movie | The Dream | Nell Herbert | 1911-01-23 |
Movie | A Manly Man | Lola | 1911-02-27 |
Movie | The Italian Barber | Alice | 1911-01-09 |
Movie | Three Sisters | Mary | 1911-02-02 |
Movie | Sweet Memories | Polly Biblett | 1911-03-27 |
Movie | For the Queen's Honor | Princess Gilda | 1911-07-06 |
Movie | A Decree of Destiny | Mary | 1911-03-06 |
Movie | The Fair Dentist | Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist | 1911-05-08 |
Movie | In the Sultan's Garden | Haidee | 1911-07-03 |
Movie | In Old Madrid | 1911-03-20 | |
Movie | As a Boy Dreams | 1911-08-13 | |
Movie | Ramona | Ramona | 1910-05-23 |
Movie | The Two Brothers | A Mexican | 1910-05-12 |
Movie | In the Season of Buds | Mabel | 1910-06-02 |
Movie | Love Among the Roses | The Lacemaker | 1910-05-08 |
Movie | As It Is in Life | 1910-04-04 | |
Movie | What the Daisy Said | Martha | 1910-07-11 |
Movie | The Thread of Destiny | Myrtle | 1910-03-07 |
Movie | A Romance of the Western Hills | 1910-04-10 | |
Movie | The Unchanging Sea | The Daughter as an Adult | 1910-05-05 |
Movie | A Flash of Light | 1910-07-17 | |
Movie | A Lucky Toothache | Bessie | 1910-10-13 |
Movie | A Plain Song | Edith | 1910-11-28 |
Movie | The Call to Arms | A Messenger | 1910-07-25 |
Movie | Wilful Peggy | Peggy | 1910-08-24 |
Movie | Simple Charity | Miss Wilkins | 1910-11-10 |
Movie | When We Were in Our 'Teens | Mary | 1910-08-18 |
Movie | An Arcadian Maid | The Arcadian Maid | 1910-08-01 |
Movie | The Usurer | Invalid Daughter | 1910-08-15 |
Movie | The Country Doctor | Poor Mother's Elder Daughter | 1909-07-08 |
Movie | The Renunciation | Kittie Ryan | 1909-07-19 |
Movie | A Strange Meeting | 1909-08-01 | |
Movie | The Way of Man | Winnie, Mabel's Cousin | 1909-06-28 |
Movie | The Indian Runner's Romance | Blue Cloud's Wife | 1909-08-22 |
Movie | Sweet and Twenty | Alice | 1909-07-22 |
Movie | The Violin Maker of Cremona | Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter | 1909-06-07 |
Movie | Two Memories | Marion's Sister | 1909-05-23 |
Movie | The Fascinating Mrs. Francis | 1909-01-21 | |
Movie | The Seventh Day | The Maid | 1909-08-26 |
Movie | The Lonely Villa | 1909-06-10 | |
Movie | The Son's Return | Mary | 1909-06-14 |
Movie | Her First Biscuits | Biscuit Victim | 1909-06-17 |
Movie | In Old Kentucky | Partygoer | 1909-09-20 |
Movie | The Light That Came | 1909-11-11 | |
Movie | The Gibson Goddess | Woman on Sidewalk | 1909-11-01 |
Movie | A Midnight Adventure | Eleanor | 1909-11-18 |
Movie | The Mountaineer's Honor | Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl | 1909-11-24 |
Movie | The Heart of an Outlaw | The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult | 1909-12-31 |
Movie | Lines of White on a Sullen Sea | Second Couple | 1909-10-27 |
Movie | The Little Teacher | The Little Teacher | 1909-10-11 |
Movie | Getting Even | Miss Lucy | 1909-09-12 |
Movie | The Sealed Room | A Lady-in-Waiting | 1909-09-02 |
Movie | The Broken Locket | Ruth King | 1909-09-16 |
Movie | The Awakening | The Widow's Daughter | 1909-09-29 |
Movie | Pippa Passes | Girl in crowd | 1909-10-03 |
Movie | The Little Darling | Little Darling | 1909-09-01 |
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