Mary Pickford's biography

Gladys Marie Smith is 87 years old film producer born at Toronto. She was born on Friday 8th of April 1892. She is often nicknamed as Baby Gladys, America`s Sweetheart, Little Mary, Gladys Marie Smith, Mary Pickford. According to year of birth 1892 she belongs to Lost Generation. Birthday on 8th of April means she is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.

She is native english speaker. She is white canadian. Gladys is citizen of Canada. She is christian science. Gladys´s primary profession is to be film producer. You can know her also as film actor, film director, screenwriter, writer, stage actor. She is recently known as actor. She received Academy Award for Best Actress Coquette in 1929

Mary Pickford's dad

Mary Pickford's father's name is John Charles Smith.

Mary Pickford's mom

Mary Pickford's mother's name is Charlotte Hennessy. She is known as actor. Gladys´s mother was born on Wednesday 1st of January 1873 in Toronto. Mary Pickford was born when she was only 19 years old. Gladys´s mother died on Thursday 22nd of March 1928 in Los Angeles. Charlotte Hennessy was 36 years old, when this happened.

Mary Pickford's career

Gladys´s main focus is to be film producer. She is famous thanks to America`s Sweetheart.

Is Mary Pickford gay ?

Gladys is known to be straight.

How did Mary Pickford die

Gladys died on on Tuesday 29th of May 1979 when he was 87 years old at Santa Monica. Mary Pickfords death was caused by cerebral hemorrhage. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Mary Pickford's Awards

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6280 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
Was the 2nd actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Coquette (1929) at The 2nd Academy Awards on April 3, 1930.
She was posthumously awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on November 16, 1993.
She was posthumously awarded a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario in 1999.

Mary Pickford's Nominations

She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for work Coquette in 1929

What else you don't know about Mary Pickford ?

Her middle name is Marie.

What Mary Pickford has done for a first time

Formed United Artists company with Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith and Charles Chaplin. The first artist to have her name in marquee lights. The first international star.
She was the first movie actress to receive a percentage of a film's earnings
Was the subject of the first cinematic close up shot, in Friends (1912).
The romance drama Coquette (1929) was her first talkie.
Her first starring appearance in a film was in Her First Biscuits (1909) for Biograph Company.
She was first hired for the movies by director D.W. Griffith.

Mary Pickford's quotes

We were pioneers in a brand-new medium. Everything's fun when you're young.
I'm sick of Cinderella parts, of wearing rags and tatters. I want to wear smart clothes and play the lover.
We maniacs had fun and made good pictures and a lot of money. In the early years, United Artists was a private golf club for the four of us.
If you have made mistakes... and there is always another chance for you... you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
I never liked one of my pictures in its entirety.
[at her retirement] I'm not exactly satisfied, but I'm grateful.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people want to go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise... I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
[on Douglas Fairbanks] A little boy who never grew up.
[on Charles Chaplin] That obstinate, suspicious, egocentric, maddening and lovable genius of a problem child.
[on Douglas Fairbanks] In his private life Douglas always faced a situation in the only way he knew, by running away from it.
[on Ernst Lubitsch] I parted company with him as soon as I could. I thought him a very uninspired director. He was a director of doors.
[on success] This thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
I will not allow one picture to be shown: Rosita (1923). Oh, I detested that picture! I disliked the director, Ernst Lubitsch, as much as he disliked me. We didn't show it, of course, but it was a very unhappy and very costly experience.
[In her old age] I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...
[upon initially hearing her recorded voice on film in Coquette (1929)] That's not me. That's a pip squeak voice. It's impossible. I sound like I'm 12 or 13.
[on A Good Little Devil (1914)] One of the worst [features] I ever made...it was deadly.
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.
It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
[on her 20-month success at Biograph Pictures] I played scrubwomen and secretaries and women of all nationalities. I decided that if I could get into as many pictures as possible, I'd become known, and there would be a demand for my work.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's: privacy.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
[1924] The Birth of a Nation (1915) was the first picture that really made people take the motion picture industry seriously. Even today it stands as the finest example of dramatic accumulation on the screen.
[1924] Seventeen (1916) is perhaps the best example of [Booth Tarkington's] angle on life - the typical wholesome American humor, fresh and charming.
[1924] Anna Boleyn (1920) is an example of superb direction and splendid acting, especially that of Emil Jannings. It was the first time on the screen that a King had been made human. It has subtle, satirical humor.
[1924] Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920). This story is so simple and human that even the people of far away China could sympathize with the situations. It deals with a world-wide problem - what to do with the old. The human touches are delightful.
[1924] I am not vain. I do not care about giving a smashing personal performance. My one ambition is to create fine entertainment.
[1924] If I ever retire from the screen I will become a producer - unless I am forced into retirement by the combine.
[1924, to an interviewer] I have only three hundred billboards for the New York showings of Rosita (1923). Do you think that is enough? I wanted five hundred. I think billboards are very important in the advertising campaign.
[1924] I am no longer in pictures for money. I am in them because I love them.
[1924] I do not cry easily when seeing a picture, but after seeing [Charles Chaplin's] A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923) I was all choked up - I wanted to go out in the garden and have it out by myself. Our cook felt the same way.
[1924, on Charles Chaplin] How he knows women - oh, how he knows women!

Mary Pickford's height, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Mary Pickford looks. We will focus on Gladys´s height, body shape, eye color and hair color. She is tall as 5' 1" (155 cm). Body build is slim. Gladys´s eyes are tinted brown - light. Her hair is shade of brown - light.

Mary Pickford