Mary Pickford

Also known as Gladys Marie Smith, Gladys Louise Smith, Gladys Mary Moore, Gladys Moore, Gladys Smith

Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)

AI overview

Mary Pickford was a Canadian actress and producer who became one of the most famous and influential film stars of the early 20th century. She matters because she was a pioneering figure in cinema history, helping to establish the film industry and becoming one of the first women to hold significant creative and business power in Hollywood.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1892
Died: 1979
Works: 8

Top works

My strange life
The demi-widow
My rendezvous with life
The semi-widow
Why not try God?

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1965-10-22

electronic

Discography

Official site Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 7
Total plays: 11

Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was a Canadian-American motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "The girl with the curls," she was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting. Because her international fame was triggered by moving images <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mary+Pickford">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,802x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,860x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 15,191x
Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,383x

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Quotes

“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”
“[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.”
“The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.”
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
“Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theater for? An emotional exercise. And no preachment.”
“I am no longer in pictures for money. I am in them because I love them. I am not in vain. I do not care about giving a smashing personal performance. My one ambition is to create fine entertainment.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), baptised as Gladys Marie Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian American film actress and producer. A pioneer in the American film industry with a Hollywood career spanning five decades, Pickford was one of the most popular actresses of the silent film era. Beginning her film career in 1909, Pickford became Hollywood's first millionaire by 1916, and, at the height of her career, had complete creative control of her films and was one of the most recognizable women in the world. Due to her popularity, unprecedented international fame, and success as an actress and businesswoman, she was known as the "Queen of the Movies". She was a significant figure in the development of film acting and is credited with having defined the ingénue type in cinema, a persona that also earned her the nickname "America's Sweetheart".

In 1919, she co-founded United Artists alongside Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith, and was also one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927. She was awarded the second Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound film role in Coquette (1929) and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1976 in consideration of her contributions to American cinema. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Pickford as the 24th-greatest female star of Classical Hollywood Cinema.

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