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:
- 251
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Two Memories 1909-05-23
- 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 | Sigrid Holmquist | Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage) | 2010-10-08 |
| 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 | Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler | Self (archive footage) | 2005-08-09 |
| 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 | 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 | 1965-12-31 | |
| Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | 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 | 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 | Secrets | Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton | 1933-03-16 |
| Movie | Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1933-12-01 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | M'Liss | Melissa 'M'liss' Smith | 1918-05-05 |
| Movie | Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley | Amarilly Jenkins | 1918-03-10 |
| Movie | How Could You, Jean? | Jean Mackaye | 1918-06-29 |
| Movie | Stella Maris | Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake | 1918-01-21 |
| Movie | Cupid Angling | 1918-07-18 | |
| Movie | 100% American | Mayme | 1918-10-04 |
| Movie | Johanna Enlists | Johanna Renssaller | 1918-09-14 |
| 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 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Rebecca Randall | 1917-09-22 |
| Movie | The Little American | Angela Moore | 1917-07-12 |
| 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 | Poor Little Peppina | Peppina | 1916-03-02 |
| Movie | The Eternal Grind | Louise | 1916-04-17 |
| Movie | The Foundling | Molly O | 1916-01-03 |
| Movie | Less Than the Dust | Radha | 1916-11-04 |
| Movie | Hulda from Holland | Hulda | 1916-07-31 |
| 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 | 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 | Fate | Unknown Role | 1913-03-22 |
| Movie | The Unwelcome Guest | Jessie - the Slavey | 1913-03-15 |
| Movie | Caprice | Mercy Baxter | 1913-11-10 |
| Movie | In the Bishop's Carriage | Nance Olden | 1913-09-10 |
| Movie | The Old Actor | The Old Actor's Daughter | 1912-05-06 |
| Movie | Won by a Fish | The Woman | 1912-04-22 |
| Movie | A Lodging for the Night | The Mexican Girl | 1912-05-09 |
| Movie | A Beast at Bay | The Young Woman | 1912-05-26 |
| Movie | Just Like a Woman | The Young Woman | 1912-04-18 |
| Movie | Home Folks | The Young Woman | 1912-06-06 |
| Movie | A Timely Repentance | Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion' | 1912-03-11 |
| Movie | Honor Thy Father | Mary Fuller | 1912-02-09 |
| Movie | The Mender of Nets | The Little Net-Mender | 1912-02-15 |
| Movie | Iola's Promise | Iola | 1912-03-14 |
| Movie | Fate's Interception | The Mexican Girl | 1912-04-08 |
| Movie | The Female of the Species | The Miner's Wife's Sister | 1912-04-15 |
| Movie | Lena and the Geese | Lena | 1912-06-17 |
| Movie | The One She Loved | The Wife | 1912-10-21 |
| Movie | A Feud in the Kentucky Hills | The Daughter | 1912-10-03 |
| Movie | My Baby | The Wife | 1912-11-14 |
| Movie | The Informer | The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart | 1912-11-21 |
| Movie | The School Teacher and the Waif | Nora, the Waif | 1912-06-26 |
| Movie | So Near, Yet So Far | The Young Woman | 1912-09-29 |
| Movie | The New York Hat | Mary Harding, the Daughter | 1912-12-05 |
| Movie | The Narrow Road | Mrs. Jim Holcomb | 1912-08-01 |
| Movie | An Indian Summer | The Widow's Daughter | 1912-07-08 |
| Movie | Friends | Dora - the Orphan | 1912-09-22 |
| Movie | The Inner Circle | The Rich Italian's Daughter | 1912-08-12 |
| Movie | With the Enemy's Help | Faro Kate | 1912-08-19 |
| Movie | A Pueblo Legend | The Indian Girl | 1912-08-29 |
| Movie | The Message in the Bottle | Louise Spencer | 1911-03-09 |
| Movie | The Secret of the Palm | Unknown Role | 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 | Three Sisters | Mary | 1911-02-02 |
| 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 | Maid or Man | Elsie Keene | 1911-01-30 |
| Movie | When the Cat's Away | Dorothy, The Wife | 1911-02-09 |
| Movie | The Convert | Agnes Boyd | 1911-02-16 |
| Movie | Her Darkest Hour | Ruth | 1911-02-13 |
| Movie | The Temptress | Lucille Allen | 1911-05-04 |
| Movie | The Mirror | Dorothy | 1911-02-09 |
| Movie | Pictureland | Unconfimed Role | 1911-02-20 |
| Movie | The Sentinel Asleep | Unknown Role | 1911-10-09 |
| Movie | The Better Way | Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass | 1911-10-12 |
| Movie | His Dress Shirt | Mrs. Kirby | 1911-10-30 |
| Movie | The Rose's Story | Unknown Role | 1911-10-02 |
| Movie | 'Tween Two Loves | Grace | 1911-09-28 |
| Movie | The Toss of a Coin | Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter | 1911-08-31 |
| Movie | The Courting of Mary | Mary | 1911-11-26 |
| Movie | Love Heeds Not Showers | Mary | 1911-12-03 |
| Movie | The Fair Dentist | Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist | 1911-05-08 |
| Movie | The Caddy's Dream | Miss Kelsomine | 1911-12-31 |
| Movie | How Mary Fixed it | Mary | 1911-12-31 |
| Movie | The Portrait | Little Vera - the Model | 1911-12-28 |
| Movie | As a Boy Dreams | 1911-08-13 | |
| Movie | Little Red Riding Hood | Little Red Riding Hood | 1911-12-17 |
| Movie | Back to the Soil | Sadie Allen | 1911-06-08 |
| Movie | The Master and the Man | Elsie Graham | 1911-05-15 |
| Movie | The Call of the Song | Amy Gordon | 1911-08-13 |
| Movie | For Her Brother's Sake | Madge Spotwood | 1911-05-11 |
| 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 | For the Queen's Honor | Princess Gilda | 1911-07-06 |
| Movie | Science | Mrs. Crawford | 1911-07-24 |
| Movie | The Skating Bug | The Girl | 1911-07-31 |
| Movie | At a Quarter of Two | Mrs Warren | 1911-07-13 |
| Movie | A Gasoline Engagement | Flora Powell | 1911-07-10 |
| Movie | The Unchanging Sea | The Daughter as an Adult | 1910-05-05 |
| Movie | The Two Brothers | A Mexican | 1910-05-12 |
| Movie | Ramona | Ramona | 1910-05-23 |
| Movie | Love Among the Roses | The Lacemaker | 1910-05-08 |
| 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 | 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 | That Chink at Golden Gulch | 1910-10-10 | |
| Movie | Sunshine Sue | 1910-11-14 | |
| 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 | A Gold Necklace | Masie | 1910-10-06 |
| Movie | Simple Charity | Miss Wilkins | 1910-11-10 |
| Movie | The Call to Arms | A Messenger | 1910-07-25 |
| Movie | A Flash of Light | 1910-07-17 | |
| Movie | Muggsy Becomes a Hero | Mabel | 1910-09-01 |
| Movie | What the Daisy Said | Martha | 1910-07-11 |
| Movie | The Usurer | Invalid Daughter | 1910-08-15 |
| Movie | An Arcadian Maid | The Arcadian Maid | 1910-08-01 |
| Movie | Wilful Peggy | Peggy | 1910-08-24 |
| Movie | When We Were in Our 'Teens | Mary | 1910-08-18 |
| Movie | The Sorrows of the Unfaithful | Mary | 1910-08-22 |
| Movie | Sweet and Twenty | Alice | 1909-07-22 |
| Movie | The Renunciation | Kittie Ryan | 1909-07-19 |
| Movie | Tender Hearts | Nellie | 1909-07-19 |
| Movie | The Cardinal's Conspiracy | A Disguised Servant | 1909-07-12 |
| Movie | The Slave | A Slave Girl | 1909-07-29 |
| Movie | The Seventh Day | The Maid | 1909-08-26 |
| Movie | The Country Doctor | Poor Mother's Elder Daughter | 1909-07-08 |
| Movie | The Indian Runner's Romance | Blue Cloud's Wife | 1909-08-22 |
| Movie | His Wife's Visitor | Bessie Wright | 1909-08-19 |
| Movie | They Would Elope | Bessie | 1909-08-09 |
| Movie | A Strange Meeting | 1909-08-01 | |
| Movie | His Duty | A young woman in the street | 1909-05-31 |
| Movie | The Lonely Villa | 1909-06-10 | |
| Movie | The Violin Maker of Cremona | Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter | 1909-06-07 |
| Movie | Oh, Uncle! | Bessie | 1909-08-26 |
| Movie | Two Memories | Marion's Sister | 1909-05-23 |
| 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 | In the Watches of the Night | Girl at Henry Brainard's | 1909-10-25 |
| Movie | A Midnight Adventure | Eleanor | 1909-11-18 |
| Movie | A Sweet Revenge | 1909-11-18 | |
| Movie | The Light That Came | 1909-11-11 | |
| Movie | The Restoration | Alice Ashford | 1909-11-08 |
| 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 | What's Your Hurry? | Mary | 1909-11-01 |
| 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 | Lines of White on a Sullen Sea | Second Couple | 1909-10-27 |
| Movie | His Lost Love | Mary | 1909-10-18 |
| 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 |