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	Mary Pickford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pickford and Fairbanks were the first actors to leave their handprints in the courtyard cement at the Chinese Theater (Pickford also left her footprints).
		The "Mary Pickford Theater" at the United States Library of Congress was named in her honor.
		Pickford became deeply involved in the design of the theatre, and two Anthony Heinsbergen murals in the auditorium feature her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Pickford (3315 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Mary Pickford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was a motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists, known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.
		Pickford's mother baptized little Gladys in both Methodist and Catholic churches for the sake of both families, but did not raise her children Catholic, to the dismay of her own mother, a devout Roman Catholic emigrant from County Kerry.
		Pickford would go on to become Hollywood's biggest female star, the first female actor to receive more than a million dollars per year (the first male actor who made a million-dollar deal was Charlie Chaplin), and one of the few stars to prove successful in both the silent-film era and the sound-film period.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Mary_Pickford (1504 words)

	Mary Pickford - MSN Encarta
		Mary Pickford (1893-1979), American actor and motion-picture producer, who is traditionally regarded as the most popular performer in film history.
		Pickford was born Gladys Marie Smith in Toronto, Canada, where as a child she began to act in a stock theater company.
		Pickford's salary history was unprecedented: from $175 per week in 1910 to $10,000 per week in 1916.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761565519 (555 words)

	mary pickford - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979) was a motion picture star, known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.
		Her last husband was Charles 'Buddy' Rogers (1904-1999), a fresh-faced actor known as "America's Boy Friend" and later a bandleader, whom she married in 1937; they had two adopted children, Roxanne and Ronald.
		She died on May 29, 1979 holding dual U.S./Canadian citizenship and is buried with her scandal-prone brother Jack Pickford in the Pickford private family plot in the Garden of Memory of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California, USA.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/mary-pickford (541 words)

	Mary Pickford Filmography
		From early in her career, Mary Pickford oversaw every aspect of the making of her films, from hiring talent and crew to overseeing the script, the shooting, the editing, to the final release and promotion of each project.
		Mary Pickford considered film to be a medium of popular art, and quality was always her first concern.
		Pickford was shot from behind and over-the-shoulder, and her face was never seen on the screen.
	www.marypickford.com /film.html (1026 words)

	Book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When the writer Adela Rogers St. Johns wrote that throughout her career Mary Pickford was "The best known woman who has ever lived, the woman who was known to more people and loved by more people than any other woman that has been in all history" she did not exaggerate.
		While Mary's heart always belonged to Douglas Fairbanks, and whose life together is one of this century's most beautiful and tragic romances, she and Chaplin had much in common by having similar social and family environment, Chaplin in London, Pickford in Toronto.
		More than this Pickford was a fighter; she stood up and defended the characters she played and went to the aid of the oppressed and down-trodden.
	www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /FINE/juhde/gp-mp972.htm (927 words)

	Mary Pickford
		But during her heyday, from the early years of the 20th century until the 1930s, the Toronto-born actor was the biggest box office star in the United States.
		Pickford's career started early, thanks to her father's death in 1897, when she was just five.
		Pickford was given a special Academy Award in 1975 for her contribution to American film.
	www.mutoworld.com /Pickford.htm (604 words)

	American Experience \| Mary Pickford \| Transcript \| PBS
		Pickford didn't have star billing but she was certain that it was just a matter of time.
		Mary Pickford, Archival Film : I think she was wrong in her approach and I felt sorry that he was forbidden in the house and that Mother disapproved of him.
		Mary Pickford, although she could play a sensuous looking, older woman, was not about sex.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pickford/filmmore/pt.html (7224 words)

	Mary Pickford Co. v. Bayly Bros., Inc. (1939) 12 C2d 501
		That corporation made a contract for the purchase of a large tract of land and conceived a plan for financing the enterprise by means of a trust which it termed a syndicate.
		The check of $22,500 given by Mary Pickford Company as the balance of the subscription for the beneficial interest was made payable to it.
		The evidence shows that the false representations were made by J. Dunham, the executive vice-president of the corporation, and it does not appear that either Harold Bayly or Roy D. Bayly participated in or were aware of the fraud which induced the plaintiffs to buy their certificates.
	online.ceb.com /calcases/C2/12C2d501.htm (6192 words)

	United Artists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		UA was incorporated as a joint venture on February 5, 1919 by four of the leading figures in early Hollywood: Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D.
		Pickford herself produced a few films, and at various times Goldwyn, Korda, Walt Disney, Walter Wanger and David O. Selznick were made "producing partners" (i.e., sharing in the profits), but ownership still rested with the founders.
		When she retired from pictures in 1933, Mary Pickford wanted to destroy her films; afraid that they would be laughed-at, she was finally made to see that they would have artistic or historic value, and today rights to all of her films are held by the Pickford Foundation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Artists (2566 words)

	Ollive Thomas death
		In Mary Pickford, America's Sweetheart (Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1990), author Scott Eyman said Pickford served as a "go-between" for a Lt. Benjamin Davis who arranged safe assignments for "bluebloods" who wanted to be "far away from shot and shell." Eyman goes on to say that Davis was court-martialed and found guilty.
		Pickford, because he testified for the prosecution, was dishonorably discharged, although it is presumed that Mary and/or her mother, Charlotte, arranged to have the word "dishonorable" removed from his discharge.
		Eyman quotes Pickford as saying he was in bed when he heard Thomas shriek from the bathroom, "Oh, my God!" He rushed to the bathroom and caught her in his arms.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /articles/lpolivethomasdeath.html (1239 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Mary Pickford begins a national stage tour at Seattle's Metropolitan Theatre on May 20, 1935.
		Not only did Mary Pickford have the good fortune of making the Biograph Studios her destination of choice, where famed director D. Griffith was honing his talents, but she also entered the film industry just as it was gaining acceptance as a form of popular entertainment.
		Mary Pickford quickly became a favorite with motion picture audiences, a mantle she would not relinquish for more than two decades.
		For Mary Pickford, at the height of her screen career, was not only the most popular actress in the United States, but the most popular actress in the world.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=2964 (1944 words)

	Mary Pickford Makes A Comeback - CBS News
		Said Carli, "Pickford, you get to work with her, and it's good material, because she gives a lot of color and power to the acting, and she also is trying new things.
		Pickford started supporting her family after her father died was just 5 years old, first on stage and then in films, pushed all along by her stage mother.
		Pickford's career spanned 25 years and more than 200 films, most of which she hoped the public would never see again.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/06/22/sunday/main298011.shtml (975 words)

	Mary Pickford
		Mary Pickford's legacy lives on through her film work, and also the way she shaped the entire motion picture industry.
		Mary Pickford was friendly and open in real-life, and in her roles as well.
		Mary later remarked that the Academy was important in helping to proclaim the importance of film as a cultural force.
	people.smu.edu /cgholson (1905 words)

	Mary Pickford Theater Film Schedule
		The Mary Pickford Theater is located on the third floor of the Library of Congress Madison building.
		Mary Pickford, one of silent cinema's biggest stars, is mostly remembered for her star-power and business acumen.
		Suds was Mary Pickford second release at United Artists, the distribution company she co-founded in 1919 with Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mopic/pickford/pickfordarchive/summerfall2003.html (4345 words)

	Pickford Family Crest
		Pickford is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from the family once having lived in the parish of Pitchford found in the counties of Salop and Shropshire.
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: John Pichford settled in Philadelphia in 1823; Mary Pickford settled in Virginia in 1663 with her husband; Isaac and John Pickford arrived in New York in 1820.
		In the Pickford coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/pickford-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224 (497 words)

	Wikipedia: Mary Pickford
		Pickford was born Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (for some reason, Pickford always claimed that her middle name was Marie).
		She also founded Mary Pickford Cosmetics, a beauty company, in 1937.
		She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6280 Hollywood Blvd.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/m/ma/mary_pickford.html (525 words)

	American Experience \| Mary Pickford \| Timeline \| PBS
		The event leaves Pickford devastated and she cuts off her famous curls in front of journalists.
		Pickford sells her shares in United Artists for $3 million ($19.7 million in 2003 dollars), ending her involvement in the nearly 40-year business venture she founded.
		Pickford makes a last trip to Paris for the event, where fans rave about her work, then returns to Pickfair and disappears from the public eye.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pickford/timeline/timeline2.html (1033 words)

	Mary Pickford Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		On April 19, 1909, the Biograph film company director D. Griffith screen-tested her for a role in the Biograph "Pippa Passes." The role went to someone else, but Griffith was immediately taken with Pickford, and within a few days agreed to pay her an astronomical $10 a day against a guarantee of $40 a week.
		She died on May 29, 1979 at age 87, and lies buried in the Garden of Memory of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
		Buried alongside her in the Pickford private family plot are her mother Charlotte, her scandal-prone siblings Lottie and Jack Pickford and the family of Elizabeth Watson, Charlotte's sister, who had helped raise Mary in Toronto.Mary Pickford received a posthumous star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto in 1999.
	www.netkushi.com /articles/mary-pickford.php (1766 words)

	Amazon.com: Taming of the Shrew (1929) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mary Pickford's excellent screwball-esque timing and Douglas Fairbanks' overbearingly forward personality prove that the two should not have been on the decline.
		Pickford's confidence in herself and her talent, etc. The reality is, only the last item has any truth to it.
		Mary Pickford states in her autobiography that filming of "Shrew' was not enjoyable, since her husband Douglas Fairbanks (and the co-producer of the film) spent each morning sun-bathing and working out before showing up on the set.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000065FSA?v=glance (1634 words)

	© Mary Miles Minter - Silent Movie Star - goldensilents.com
		In the next decade she would appear in over 50 films, billed as Mary Miles Minter, and typecast as a delicate and lovely child waif in the Mary Pickford style.
		Only a handful of Mary's silent films have survived, which is a shame, considering what a delightful actress she was on screen.
		However the publicity over the presence of a love note written by Mary to Taylor, and a supposed nightgown in his home embroidered with her name, doomed her career in the public's regard and affections.
	www.goldensilents.com /stars/marymilesminter.html (607 words)

	Mary, Doug on Stand in Federal Hearing
		That Mary Pickford will be required to produce the books of her producing company to show what her profits had been on her pictures.
		Mary Pickford was the first witness called by W.H. Fuller and H.A. Cox, attorneys for the Commission.
		When Mary left the stand, all the members of the hearing arose and bowed as she passed from the room and returned to a nearby set where a corps of actors awaited her appearance.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/9_ftc_2.htm (1078 words)

	Javorie.com :: Arts :: People :: P :: Pickford, Mary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Pickford was the most successful and powerful woman in Hollywood in her...
		In November 1995, their 24-minute documentary debuted at the library's Mary Pickford Theater to a crowd of bluegrass fans vying for Krise's autograph.
		Wilder, represented on stage by a director’s chair, wants to know who the real Mary Pickford is, so Mary starts telling him the story of her life.
	www.javorie.com /directory/index.php/Arts/People/P/Pickford,_Mary (423 words)

	Mary Pickford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The play was produced by David Belasco, who insisted that she assume the stage name Mary Pickford.
		Before he died, he sent Pickford a message saying simply, "By the clock." Upon hearing of his death, Pickford reportedly began to weep in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling is gone." She was unable to attend his funeral.
		She died on May 29, 1979 and is buried with her scandal-prone brother Jack Pickford in the Pickford private family plot in the Garden of Memory of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/mary_pickford (891 words)

	Movie Timeline: 1910 - 1919
		Samuel Goldfish resigns as administrative president of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation due to disagreements with the new president, Adolph Zukor.
		Mary Pickford forms her own film production company to make films for First National.
		Feeling that distributors are taking too much of their money, D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks join forces and form their own distributing company called "United Artists Corporation".
	www.pictureshowman.com /timeline_1910_1919.cfm (2573 words)

	American Experience \| Mary Pickford \| People & Events \| PBS
		Hodkinson, a forward-thinking businessman, established the Paramount Pictures Corporation in 1914 to act as a distributor for multiple film producers.
		Zukor endured endless salary negotiations with Pickford and her mother, Charlotte, during the years of their collaboration.
		Zukor remembered Pickford saying, "You know, for years I've dreamed of making $20,000 a year before I was 20, and I'll be 20 very soon." "I could take a hint," he recalled.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pickford/peopleevents/p_zukor.html (830 words)

	MARY PICKFORD FOUNDATION GIVES $200,000 TO SMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Santa Monica College Foundation announced it has received a $200,000 gift from the Mary Pickford Foundation to establish an endowment fund for scholarships for students at the college’s acclaimed Academy of Entertainment and Technology.
		The Mary Pickford Foundation is a private nonprofit corporation in Beverly Hills.
		It was established by the film industry pioneer for the support of education, medical research, community service, the arts, and charitable causes she championed throughout her life.
	www.smc.edu /events/pressreleases/1998/june/PickfordDonation.html (229 words)

	Federal Trade Board Declares Famous Players-Lasky Corporation Violates Trust Laws
		It is alleged that after the acquisition both the Paramount Corporation and the Artcraft Pictures Corporation ceased to function and were dissolved, and thereafter the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, in addition to producing films entered the business of leasing and distributing such films directly to distributors without employing the medium of any distributing agency.
		The commission declares that such independent producers by contract leased and distributed their films throughout the respondent corporation, and in the same manner as the respondent's films, and that these independent's productions are advertised and displayed as Paramount-Artcraft and Paramount pictures.
		Acquisition of motion picture theatres through coercion and intimidation of owners into selling their theatres after threats of erecting competing houses and of interfering with their film service as a furtherance of the conspiracy alleged is also charged and the complaint sets forth numerous details to bear out the contention.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/9_ftc_1.htm (631 words)

	EMC Corporation
		Network-attached storage and storage area networks are rivals no more than sight and sound were in the early days of cinema.
		And with apologies to Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, the cinema hit its golden age only after audio was added to the images.
		The idea was to free up the servers to do what they do best -- process data -- while managing information from a central location where it can be protected, shared and mined.
	www.emc.com /news/in_depth_archive/08212000_sannas.jsp?printtest123=PRINTABLE (533 words)

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