Mary Pickford
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)
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- Born:
- Apr 8, 1892 In Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 252
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Two Memories 1909-05-24
- Latest Project:
- Movie Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse 2023-11-19
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse | Self | 2023-11-19 |
| 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 | Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe | Self (archive footage) | 2012-05-15 |
| Movie | Smash His Camera | Self (archive footage) | 2010-07-30 |
| Movie | Sigrid Holmquist | Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage) | 2010-10-08 |
| 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 | Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler | Self (archive footage) | 2005-08-09 |
| Movie | Murders of Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2003-01-01 |
| 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 | D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913 | 2002-09-10 | |
| Movie | Mary Pickford: A Life on Film | Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2000-09-12 |
| Movie | Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists | Self / Various roles (archive footage) | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The Casting Couch | (archive footage) | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies | 1988-09-19 | |
| Movie | What Do Those Old Films Mean? | Herself(archive footage) | 1985-11-16 |
| Movie | Hollywood’s Children | Self (archive footage) | 1982-02-24 |
| Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
| Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
| Movie | The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | Self (archive footage) | 1961-05-24 |
| Movie | Yesterday and Today | (archive footage) | 1953-12-02 |
| Movie | The Way of the World | Dora (Archive Footage) | 1947-01-01 |
| Movie | Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 | Herself | 1942-10-05 |
| 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 | Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1933-12-01 |
| 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 | Coquette | Norma Besant | 1929-03-30 |
| Movie | The Taming of the Shrew | Caterina | 1929-10-26 |
| Movie | A Kiss from Mary Pickford | Self (archive footage) | 1927-09-08 |
| 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 | Sparrows | Molly | 1926-09-19 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
| Movie | Little Annie Rooney | Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney | 1925-10-18 |
| 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 | Through The Back Door | Jeanne | 1921-05-05 |
| Movie | The Love Light | Angela Carlotti | 1921-01-08 |
| 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 | How Could You, Jean? | Jean Mackaye | 1918-06-29 |
| Movie | M'Liss | Melissa 'M'liss' Smith | 1918-05-05 |
| Movie | 100% American | Mayme | 1918-10-04 |
| Movie | Johanna Enlists | Johanna Renssaller | 1918-09-14 |
| Movie | Cupid Angling | 1918-07-18 | |
| Movie | The Poor Little Rich Girl | Gwen | 1917-03-05 |
| Movie | The Pride of the Clan | Marget MacTavish | 1917-01-07 |
| Movie | A Romance of the Redwoods | Jenny Lawrence | 1917-05-14 |
| Movie | A Little Princess | Sara Crewe | 1917-11-05 |
| Movie | The Little American | Angela Moore | 1917-07-12 |
| Movie | All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan | 1917-10-01 | |
| Movie | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Rebecca Randall | 1917-09-22 |
| 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 | Hulda from Holland | Hulda | 1916-07-31 |
| Movie | Less Than the Dust | Radha | 1916-11-04 |
| Movie | The Dawn of a Tomorrow | Glad | 1915-06-07 |
| Movie | Fanchon, the Cricket | Fanchon, the Cricket | 1915-05-10 |
| Movie | Mistress Nell | Nell Gwyn | 1915-02-01 |
| Movie | Little Pal | 'Little Pal' | 1915-07-01 |
| Movie | The Foundling | Molly O | 1915-08-01 |
| Movie | Madame Butterfly | Cho-Cho-San | 1915-11-07 |
| Movie | Esmeralda | Esmeralda Rogers | 1915-09-06 |
| Movie | A Girl of Yesterday | Jane Stuart | 1915-10-07 |
| Movie | Rags | Rags / Alice McCloud | 1915-08-02 |
| Movie | Tess of the Storm Country | Tessibel Skinner | 1914-03-30 |
| Movie | Hearts Adrift | Nina | 1914-02-09 |
| Movie | The Eagle's Mate | Anemone Breckenridge | 1914-07-10 |
| Movie | A Good Little Devil | Juliet | 1914-03-01 |
| Movie | Cinderella | Cinderella | 1914-12-28 |
| Movie | Behind the Scenes | Dolly Lane | 1914-10-26 |
| Movie | Such a Little Queen | Queen Anna Victoria | 1914-09-20 |
| Movie | Fate | Unknown Role | 1913-03-22 |
| Movie | The Unwelcome Guest | Jessie - the Slavey | 1913-03-15 |
| Movie | In the Bishop's Carriage | Nance Olden | 1913-09-10 |
| Movie | Caprice | Mercy Baxter | 1913-11-10 |
| Movie | Won by a Fish | The Woman | 1912-04-22 |
| Movie | Just Like a Woman | The Young Woman | 1912-04-18 |
| Movie | The Old Actor | The Old Actor's Daughter | 1912-05-06 |
| Movie | A Lodging for the Night | The Mexican Girl | 1912-05-09 |
| Movie | The Female of the Species | The Miner's Wife's Sister | 1912-04-15 |
| Movie | A Beast at Bay | The Young Woman | 1912-05-26 |
| Movie | The Mender of Nets | The Little Net-Mender | 1912-02-15 |
| Movie | Home Folks | The Young Woman | 1912-06-06 |
| Movie | Honor Thy Father | Mary Fuller | 1912-02-09 |
| Movie | A Timely Repentance | Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion' | 1912-03-11 |
| Movie | Iola's Promise | Iola | 1912-03-14 |
| Movie | Fate's Interception | The Mexican Girl | 1912-04-08 |
| Movie | Lena and the Geese | Lena | 1912-06-17 |
| Movie | A Feud in the Kentucky Hills | The Daughter | 1912-10-03 |
| Movie | So Near, Yet So Far | The Young Woman | 1912-09-29 |
| Movie | The One She Loved | The Wife | 1912-10-21 |
| Movie | My Baby | The Wife | 1912-11-14 |
| Movie | The New York Hat | Mary Harding, the Daughter | 1912-12-05 |
| Movie | Friends | Dora - the Orphan | 1912-09-22 |
| Movie | The Informer | The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart | 1912-11-21 |
| Movie | An Indian Summer | The Widow's Daughter | 1912-07-08 |
| Movie | The School Teacher and the Waif | Nora, the Waif | 1912-06-26 |
| Movie | A Pueblo Legend | The Indian Girl | 1912-08-29 |
| Movie | The Narrow Road | Mrs. Jim Holcomb | 1912-08-01 |
| Movie | With the Enemy's Help | Faro Kate | 1912-08-19 |
| Movie | The Inner Circle | The Rich Italian's Daughter | 1912-08-12 |
| Movie | The Message in the Bottle | Louise Spencer | 1911-03-09 |
| Movie | The Secret of the Palm | Edna | 1911-03-13 |
| Movie | A Manly Man | Lola | 1911-02-27 |
| Movie | The Fisher-Maid | Paula, The Fishing-Maid | 1911-03-16 |
| Movie | Tracked | Unknown Role | 1911-03-06 |
| Movie | A Decree of Destiny | Mary | 1911-03-06 |
| Movie | The Stampede | Nello | 1911-04-17 |
| Movie | Artful Kate | Artful Kate Stanley | 1911-02-23 |
| Movie | Second Sight | Gertrude Edgar | 1911-05-01 |
| Movie | While There is hope, There is Life | Unknown Role | 1911-04-24 |
| Movie | Sweet Memories | Polly Biblett | 1911-03-27 |
| Movie | In Old Madrid | 1911-03-20 | |
| Movie | Maid or Man | Elsie Keene | 1911-01-30 |
| Movie | The Dream | Nell Herbert | 1911-01-23 |
| Movie | The Italian Barber | Alice | 1911-01-09 |
| Movie | Their First Misunderstanding | Mae Darcy | 1911-01-09 |
| Movie | When a Man Loves | Tessie | 1911-01-05 |
| Movie | The Fair Dentist | Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist | 1911-05-08 |
| Movie | Three Sisters | Mary | 1911-02-02 |
| Movie | The Convert | Agnes Boyd | 1911-02-16 |
| Movie | Her Darkest Hour | Ruth | 1911-02-13 |
| Movie | The Mirror | Dorothy | 1911-02-09 |
| Movie | When the Cat's Away | Dorothy, The Wife | 1911-02-09 |
| Movie | Pictureland | Unconfimed Role | 1911-02-20 |
| Movie | Love Heeds Not Showers | Mary | 1911-12-03 |
| Movie | The Better Way | Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass | 1911-10-12 |
| Movie | The Sentinel Asleep | Unknown Role | 1911-10-09 |
| Movie | The Rose's Story | Unknown Role | 1911-10-02 |
| Movie | 'Tween Two Loves | Grace | 1911-09-28 |
| Movie | His Dress Shirt | Mrs. Kirby | 1911-10-30 |
| Movie | The Courting of Mary | Mary | 1911-11-26 |
| Movie | For Her Brother's Sake | Madge Spotwood | 1911-05-11 |
| Movie | The Caddy's Dream | Miss Kelsomine | 1911-12-31 |
| Movie | How Mary Fixed it | Mary | 1911-12-31 |
| Movie | Little Red Riding Hood | Little Red Riding Hood | 1911-12-17 |
| Movie | The Toss of a Coin | Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter | 1911-08-31 |
| Movie | The Portrait | Little Vera - the Model | 1911-12-28 |
| Movie | In the Sultan's Garden | Haidee | 1911-07-03 |
| Movie | The Lighthouse Keeper | Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter | 1911-05-18 |
| Movie | As a Boy Dreams | 1911-08-13 | |
| Movie | The Master and the Man | Elsie Graham | 1911-05-15 |
| Movie | For the Queen's Honor | Princess Gilda | 1911-07-06 |
| Movie | Back to the Soil | Sadie Allen | 1911-06-08 |
| Movie | A Gasoline Engagement | Flora Powell | 1911-07-10 |
| Movie | The Skating Bug | The Girl | 1911-07-31 |
| Movie | The Call of the Song | Amy Gordon | 1911-08-13 |
| Movie | Science | Mrs. Crawford | 1911-07-24 |
| Movie | At a Quarter of Two | Mrs Warren | 1911-07-13 |
| Movie | The Two Brothers | A Mexican | 1910-05-12 |
| Movie | The Unchanging Sea | The Daughter as an Adult | 1910-05-05 |
| Movie | Love Among the Roses | The Lacemaker | 1910-05-08 |
| Movie | Ramona | Ramona | 1910-05-23 |
| Movie | A Victim of Jealousy | The Wife's Friend | 1910-06-09 |
| Movie | Never Again | The Girl | 1910-06-20 |
| Movie | A Romance of the Western Hills | 1910-04-10 | |
| Movie | May and December | May | 1910-06-20 |
| Movie | In the Season of Buds | Mabel | 1910-06-02 |
| Movie | The Newlyweds | Alice Vance | 1910-03-03 |
| Movie | The Woman from Mellon's | Mary Petersby | 1910-02-03 |
| Movie | All on Account of the Milk | The Young Woman | 1910-01-13 |
| Movie | A Child's Impulse | Grace | 1910-06-27 |
| Movie | The Englishman and the Girl | The Girl | 1910-02-17 |
| Movie | The Thread of Destiny | Myrtle | 1910-03-07 |
| Movie | The Smoker | George's Wife | 1910-03-31 |
| Movie | The Twisted Trail | Molly Hendricks | 1910-03-24 |
| Movie | A Rich Revenge | Jennie | 1910-04-07 |
| Movie | As It Is in Life | Daughter (Adult) | 1910-04-04 |
| Movie | Waiter No. 5 | The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée | 1910-11-03 |
| Movie | A Lucky Toothache | Bessie | 1910-10-13 |
| Movie | A Gold Necklace | Masie | 1910-10-06 |
| Movie | Simple Charity | Miss Wilkins | 1910-11-10 |
| Movie | The Song of the Wildwood Flute | Dove Eyes | 1910-11-21 |
| Movie | Muggsy's First Sweetheart | Mabel Brown | 1910-06-30 |
| Movie | White Roses | Betty | 1910-12-22 |
| Movie | A Plain Song | Edith | 1910-11-28 |
| Movie | Muggsy Becomes a Hero | Mabel | 1910-09-01 |
| Movie | Sunshine Sue | 1910-11-14 | |
| Movie | A Flash of Light | 1910-07-17 | |
| Movie | What the Daisy Said | Martha | 1910-07-11 |
| Movie | Wilful Peggy | Peggy | 1910-08-24 |
| Movie | An Arcadian Maid | The Arcadian Maid | 1910-08-01 |
| Movie | The Call to Arms | A Messenger | 1910-07-25 |
| Movie | The Sorrows of the Unfaithful | Mary | 1910-08-22 |
| Movie | The Usurer | Invalid Daughter | 1910-08-15 |
| Movie | When We Were in Our 'Teens | Mary | 1910-08-18 |
| Movie | Sweet and Twenty | Alice | 1909-07-22 |
| Movie | The Renunciation | Kittie Ryan | 1909-07-19 |
| Movie | Tender Hearts | Nellie | 1909-07-15 |
| Movie | The Slave | A Slave Girl | 1909-07-29 |
| Movie | The Cardinal's Conspiracy | A Disguised Servant | 1909-07-12 |
| Movie | The Indian Runner's Romance | Blue Cloud's Wife | 1909-08-22 |
| Movie | The Country Doctor | Poor Mother's Elder Daughter | 1909-07-08 |
| Movie | The Seventh Day | The Maid | 1909-08-26 |
| Movie | His Wife's Visitor | Bessie Wright | 1909-08-19 |
| Movie | They Would Elope | Bessie | 1909-08-09 |
| Movie | A Strange Meeting | 1909-08-02 | |
| Movie | The Violin Maker of Cremona | Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter | 1909-06-07 |
| Movie | The Lonely Villa | 1909-06-10 | |
| Movie | Oh, Uncle! | Bessie | 1909-08-26 |
| Movie | His Duty | A young woman in the street | 1909-05-31 |
| Movie | Two Memories | Marion's Sister | 1909-05-24 |
| Movie | The Son's Return | Mary | 1909-06-14 |
| Movie | The Faded Lilies | At party | 1909-06-17 |
| Movie | The Way of Man | Winnie, Mabel's Cousin | 1909-06-28 |
| Movie | The Peachbasket Hat | On street/In store | 1909-06-24 |
| Movie | The Mexican Sweethearts | The Señorita | 1909-06-24 |
| Movie | Her First Biscuits | Biscuit Victim | 1909-06-17 |
| Movie | The Necklace | The Maid / In Pawnshop | 1909-07-01 |
| Movie | His Lost Love | Mary | 1909-10-18 |
| Movie | A Midnight Adventure | Eleanor | 1909-11-18 |
| Movie | The Light That Came | Daisy | 1909-11-11 |
| Movie | The Restoration | Alice Ashford | 1909-11-08 |
| Movie | What's Your Hurry? | Mary | 1909-11-01 |
| Movie | The Mountaineer's Honor | Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl | 1909-11-24 |
| Movie | The Trick that Failed | Nellie Burt | 1909-11-29 |
| Movie | The Heart of an Outlaw | The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult | 1909-12-31 |
| Movie | To Save Her Soul | Agnes Hailey | 1909-12-27 |
| Movie | The Test | Bessie | 1909-12-16 |
| Movie | Through the Breakers | An Extra | 1909-12-06 |
| Movie | The Gibson Goddess | Woman on Sidewalk | 1909-11-01 |
| Movie | Lines of White on a Sullen Sea | Second Couple | 1909-10-27 |
| Movie | The Broken Locket | Ruth King | 1909-09-16 |
| Movie | Getting Even | Miss Lucy | 1909-09-12 |
| Movie | 1776, or The Hessian Renegades | Messenger's Sister | 1909-09-06 |
| Movie | The Sealed Room | A Lady-in-Waiting | 1909-09-02 |
| Movie | In Old Kentucky | Partygoer | 1909-09-20 |
| Movie | The Awakening | The Widow's Daughter | 1909-09-29 |
| Movie | In the Watches of the Night | Girl at Henry Brainard's | 1909-10-25 |
| Movie | The Little Teacher | The Little Teacher | 1909-10-11 |
| Movie | Pippa Passes | Girl in crowd | 1909-10-03 |
| Movie | The Little Darling | Little Darling | 1909-09-01 |