Mary Pickford

Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1894 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian actress resident in the U.S., and also producer, screenwriter and film studio founder, who was a pioneer in the US film industry with a Hollywood career that spanned five decades. Pickford alongside her future husband, actor-producer Douglas Fairbanks, founded Pickford–Fairbanks Studios and United Artists, and was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Pickford is considered to be one of the most recognisable women in history. Known as "America's Sweetheart" during the silent film era, she is named on the list of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars as the 24th-top female star from the Classical Hollywood Cinema era and the "girl with the curls." Pickford was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting. She was one of the earliest stars to be billed under her own name, and was one of the most popular actresses of the 1910s and 1920s, earning the nickname "Queen of the Movies." She is credited with having defined the ingénue type in cinema. She was awarded the second Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound film role in Coquette (1929). By the late 1920s, Pickford's career went into decline. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 1976 in consideration of her contributions to American cinema.

Known For: Acting

Born: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1892-04-07

Died: 1979-05-29

Mary Pickford

Film

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1909	Two Memories	Marion's Sister	38
2	1909	His Duty	A young woman in the street	32
3	1909	What Drink Did		45
4	1909	The Violin Maker of Cremona	Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter	46
5	1909	The Lonely Villa		60
6	1909	The Son's Return	Mary	56
7	1909	Her First Biscuits	Biscuit Victim	30
8	1909	The Faded Lilies	At party	22
9	1909	The Peachbasket Hat	On street/In store	42
10	1909	The Mexican Sweethearts	The Señorita	5
11	1909	The Way of Man	Winnie, Mabel's Cousin	40
12	1909	The Necklace	The Maid / In Pawnshop	40
13	1909	The Country Doctor	Poor Mother's Elder Daughter	62
14	1909	The Cardinal's Conspiracy	A Disguised Servant	37
15	1909	The Renunciation	Kittie Ryan	44
16	1909	Tender Hearts	Nellie	30
17	1909	Sweet and Twenty	Alice	38
18	1909	The Slave	A Slave Girl	42
19	1909	A Strange Meeting		43
20	1909	They Would Elope	Bessie	51
21	1909	His Wife's Visitor	Bessie Wright	5
22	1909	The Indian Runner's Romance	Blue Cloud's Wife	30
23	1909	Oh, Uncle!	Bessie	22
24	1909	The Seventh Day	The Maid	30
25	1909	The Little Darling	Little Darling	45
26	1909	The Sealed Room	A Lady-in-Waiting	51
27	1909	1776, or The Hessian Renegades	Messenger's Sister	52
28	1909	Getting Even	Miss Lucy	38
29	1909	The Broken Locket	Ruth King	35
30	1909	In Old Kentucky	Partygoer	15
31	1909	The Awakening	The Widow's Daughter	30
32	1909	Pippa Passes	Girl in crowd	54
33	1909	The Little Teacher	The Little Teacher	10
34	1909	His Lost Love	Mary	20
35	1909	In the Watches of the Night	Girl at Henry Brainard's	20
36	1909	Lines of White on a Sullen Sea	Second Couple	32
37	1909	The Gibson Goddess	Woman on Sidewalk	41
38	1909	What's Your Hurry?	Mary	50
39	1909	The Restoration	Alice Ashford	45
40	1909	The Light That Came	Daisy	41
41	1909	A Sweet Revenge		45
42	1909	A Midnight Adventure	Eleanor	5
43	1909	The Mountaineer's Honor	Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl	46
44	1909	The Trick that Failed	Nellie Burt	40
45	1909	Through the Breakers	An Extra	42
46	1909	The Test	Bessie	43
47	1909	To Save Her Soul	Agnes Hailey	53
48	1909	The Heart of an Outlaw	The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult	20
49	1910	All on Account of the Milk	The Young Woman	53
50	1910	The Woman from Mellon's	Mary Petersby	0
51	1910	The Englishman and the Girl	The Girl	0
52	1910	The Newlyweds	Alice Vance	50
53	1910	The Thread of Destiny	Myrtle	0
54	1910	The Twisted Trail	Molly Hendricks	0
55	1910	The Smoker	George's Wife	0
56	1910	As It Is in Life	Daughter (Adult)	52
57	1910	A Rich Revenge	Jennie	0
58	1910	A Romance of the Western Hills		0
59	1910	The Unchanging Sea	The Daughter as an Adult	64
60	1910	Love Among the Roses	The Lacemaker	47
61	1910	The Two Brothers	A Mexican	0
62	1910	Ramona	Ramona	47
63	1910	In the Season of Buds	Mabel	0
64	1910	A Victim of Jealousy	The Wife's Friend	0
65	1910	Never Again	The Girl	40
66	1910	May and December	May	50
67	1910	A Child's Impulse	Grace	63
68	1910	Muggsy's First Sweetheart	Mabel Brown	50
69	1910	What the Daisy Said	Martha	42
70	1910	The Call to Arms	A Messenger	40
71	1910	An Arcadian Maid	The Arcadian Maid	48
72	1910	The Usurer	Invalid Daughter	50
73	1910	When We Were in Our 'Teens	Mary	50
74	1910	The Sorrows of the Unfaithful	Mary	0
75	1910	Wilful Peggy	Peggy	50
76	1910	Muggsy Becomes a Hero	Mabel	50
77	1910	A Gold Necklace	Masie	55
78	1910	That Chink at Golden Gulch		50
79	1910	A Lucky Toothache	Mary	0
80	1910	A Lucky Toothache	Bessie	0
81	1910	Waiter No. 5	The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée	0
82	1910	Simple Charity	Miss Wilkins	0
83	1910	Sunshine Sue		0
84	1910	The Song of the Wildwood Flute	Dove Eyes	0
85	1910	A Plain Song	Edith	0
86	1910	White Roses	Betty	0
87	1911	When a Man Loves	Tessie	44
88	1911	The Italian Barber	Alice	40
89	1911	Their First Misunderstanding	Mae Darcy	0
90	1911	The Dream	Nell Herbert	55
91	1911	Maid or Man	Elsie Keene	0
92	1911	Three Sisters	Mary	0
93	1911	The Mirror	Dorothy	0
94	1911	When the Cat's Away	Dorothy, The Wife	0
95	1911	Her Darkest Hour	Ruth	0
96	1911	The Convert	Agnes Boyd	0
97	1911	Artful Kate	Artful Kate Stanley	35
98	1911	A Manly Man	Lola	0
99	1911	A Decree of Destiny	Mary	0
100	1911	Tracked	Unknown Role	0
101	1911	The Message in the Bottle	Louise Spencer	0
102	1911	The Secret of the Palm	Unknown Role	0
103	1911	The Fisher-Maid	Paula, The Fishing-Maid	0
104	1911	In Old Madrid		40
105	1911	Sweet Memories	Polly Biblett	40
106	1911	The Stampede	Nello	0
107	1911	While There is hope, There is Life	Unknown Role	0
108	1911	Second Sight	Gertrude Edgar	0
109	1911	The Temptress	Lucille Allen	0
110	1911	The Fair Dentist	Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist	0
111	1911	For Her Brother's Sake	Madge Spotwood	0
112	1911	The Master and the Man	Elsie Graham	0
113	1911	The Lighthouse Keeper	Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter	0
114	1911	Back to the Soil	Sadie Allen	0
115	1911	Behind the Stockade	Florence Williams	0
116	1911	In the Sultan's Garden	Hadee	0
117	1911	In the Sultan's Garden	Haidee	0
118	1911	For the Queen's Honor	Princess Gilda	0
119	1911	A Gasoline Engagement	Flora Powell	0
120	1911	At a Quarter of Two	Mrs Warren	0
121	1911	Science	Mrs. Crawford	0
122	1911	The Skating Bug	The Girl	0
123	1911	As a Boy Dreams		40
124	1911	The Call of the Song	Amy Gordon	0
125	1911	The Toss of a Coin	Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter	0
126	1911	'Tween Two Loves	Grace	0
127	1911	The Rose's Story	Unknown Role	0
128	1911	The Sentinel Asleep	Unknown Role	0
129	1911	The Better Way	Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass	0
130	1911	His Dress Shirt	Mrs. Kirby	0
131	1911	From the Bottom of the Sea	Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)	0
132	1911	The Courting of Mary	Mary	0
133	1911	Love Heeds Not Showers	Mary	0
134	1911	Little Red Riding Hood	Little Red Riding Hood	0
135	1911	The Portrait	Little Vera - the Model	0
136	1911	The Caddy's Dream	Miss Kelsomine	0
137	1911	How Mary Fixed it	Mary	0
138	1912	Honor Thy Father	Mary Fuller	0
139	1912	The Mender of Nets	The Little Net-Mender	58
140	1912	A Timely Repentance	Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'	0
141	1912	Iola's Promise	Iola	50
142	1912	Fate's Interception	The Mexican Girl	0
143	1912	The Female of the Species	The Miner's Wife's Sister	42
144	1912	Just Like a Woman	The Young Woman	0
145	1912	Won by a Fish	The Woman	40
146	1912	The Old Actor	The Old Actor's Daughter	54
147	1912	A Lodging for the Night	The Mexican Girl	57
148	1912	A Beast at Bay	The Young Woman	56
149	1912	Home Folks	The Young Woman	0
150	1912	Lena and the Geese	Lena	42
151	1912	The School Teacher and the Waif	Nora, the Waif	48
152	1912	An Indian Summer	The Widow's Daughter	40
153	1912	The Narrow Road	Mrs. Jim Holcomb	45
154	1912	The Inner Circle	The Rich Italian's Daughter	40
155	1912	With the Enemy's Help	Faro Kate	0
156	1912	A Pueblo Legend	The Indian Girl	0
157	1912	Friends	Dora - the Orphan	55
158	1912	So Near, Yet So Far	The Young Woman	59
159	1912	A Feud in the Kentucky Hills	The Daughter	45
160	1912	The One She Loved	The Wife	0
161	1912	My Baby	The Wife	48
162	1912	The Informer	The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart	0
163	1912	The New York Hat	Mary Harding, the Daughter	57
164	1913	The Unwelcome Guest	Jessie - the Slavey	50
165	1913	In the Bishop's Carriage	Nance Olden	10
166	1913	Caprice	Mercy Baxter	10
167	1914	Hearts Adrift	Nina	0
168	1914	A Good Little Devil	Juliet	0
169	1914	Tess of the Storm Country	Tessibel Skinner	54
170	1914	The Eagle's Mate	Anemone Breckenridge	50
171	1914	Such a Little Queen	Queen Anna Victoria	0
172	1914	Behind the Scenes	Dolly Lane	0
173	1914	Cinderella	Cinderella	55
174	1915	Mistress Nell	Nell Gwyn	0
175	1915	Fanchon, the Cricket	Fanchon, the Cricket	68
176	1915	The Dawn of a Tomorrow	Glad	70
177	1915	Little Pal	'Little Pal'	0
178	1915	The Foundling	Molly O	0
179	1915	Rags	Rags / Alice McCloud	75
180	1915	Esmeralda	Esmeralda Rogers	0
181	1915	A Girl of Yesterday	Jane Stuart	0
182	1915	Madame Butterfly	Cho-Cho-San	45
183	1916	The Foundling	Molly O	0
184	1916	Poor Little Peppina	Peppina	52
185	1916	The Eternal Grind	Louise	0
186	1916	Hulda from Holland	Hulda	0
187	1916	Less Than the Dust	Radha	30
188	1917	The Pride of the Clan	Marget MacTavish	71
189	1917	The Poor Little Rich Girl	Gwen	57
190	1917	A Romance of the Redwoods	Jenny Lawrence	64
191	1917	The Little American	Angela Moore	63
192	1917	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm	Rebecca Randall	58
193	1917	All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan		0
194	1917	A Little Princess	Sara Crewe	52
195	1918	Stella Maris	Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake	68
196	1918	Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley	Amarilly Jenkins	53
197	1918	M'Liss	Melissa 'M'liss' Smith	58
198	1918	How Could You, Jean?	Jean Mackaye	0
199	1918	Cupid Angling		0
200	1918	Johanna Enlists	Johanna Renssaller	58
201	1918	100% American	Mayme	55
202	1919	Captain Kidd, Jr.	Mary MacTavish	0
203	1919	Daddy-Long-Legs	Judy Abbott	66
204	1919	The Hoodlum	Amy Burke	58
205	1919	Heart o' the Hills	Mavis Hawn	60
206	1920	Pollyanna	Pollyanna Whittier	64
207	1920	Suds	Amanda Afflick	65
208	1921	The Love Light	Angela Carlotti	68
209	1921	Through The Back Door	Jeanne	60
210	1921	Little Lord Fauntleroy	Cedric Errol / Widow Errol	70
211	1922	From Farm to Fame	Mary Pickford	0
212	1922	Tess of the Storm Country	Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner	58
213	1923	Hollywood	Mary Pickford	70
214	1923	Rosita	Rosita	65
215	1924	Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm		0
216	1924	Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall	Dorothy Vernon	43
217	1925	Little Annie Rooney	Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney	69
218	1925	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)	73
219	1926	The Black Pirate	Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)	67
220	1926	Sparrows	Molly	71
221	1927	A Kiss from Mary Pickford	Self (archive footage)	47
222	1927	My Best Girl	Maggie Johnson	70
223	1927	One of Many	Archive footage	0
224	1927	The Gaucho	The Virgin Mary	61
225	1929	Coquette	Norma Besant	57
226	1929	The Taming of the Shrew	Caterina	54
227	1930	The Voice of Hollywood	Self/Queen of the Movies	0
228	1930	Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5	Mary Pickford	0
229	1931	Kiki	Kiki	45
230	1931	The House That Shadows Built	(archive footage)	70
231	1932	Hollywood on Parade No. A-4	Self (uncredited)	0
232	1933	Secrets	Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton	51
233	1933	Hollywood on Parade No. B-5	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	0
234	1934	Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove	Self	55
235	1939	Hollywood Hobbies	Self (uncredited)	56
236	1940	Cavalcade of the Academy Awards	Self (archive footage)	65
237	1941	Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2		60
238	1942	Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6	Herself	60
239	1953	Yesterday and Today	(archive footage)	0
240	1961	The Legend of Rudolph Valentino	Self (archive footage)	0
241	1976	Hooray for Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	0
242	1982	Hollywood’s Children	Self (archive footage)	0
243	1985	What Do Those Old Films Mean?	Herself(archive footage)	60
244	1998	Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists	Self / Various roles (archive footage)	0
245	2000	Mary Pickford: A Life on Film	Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)	0
246	2002	The Tramp and the Dictator	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	69
247	2002	D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913		0
248	2003	Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush'	Self (archive footage)	54
249	2005	Mary Pickford	Self/Archival Footage	0
250	2005	Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler	Self (archive footage)	60
251	2007	Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema	Self (voice) (archive footage)	49
252	2008	Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies	Self (archive footage)	57
253	2010	Smash His Camera	Self (archive footage)	69
254	2010	Sigrid Holmquist	Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)	70
255	2013	Birth of the Tramp	Self (archive footage)	71
256	2016	The Women Who Run Hollywood	Self (archive footage)	71
257	2017	Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts	Self - Actress (archive footage)	65
258	2023	Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse	Self	70