Mary Pickford in “Fanchon the Cricket” (1915). I have to admit this is the first of her movies as an actress that I’ve seen. (I’ve seen a few she produced in the 1930s-‘40s)

#SilentFilm #MaryPickford

Ad for the world premiere of “One Rainy Afternoon” (1936), starring Francis Lederer and Ida Lupino, at the Rivoli Theater in New York City.

Produced by Mary Pickford and Jesse L. Lasky: “Two of the film industry’s greatest personalities present the first offering of their new enterprise”

#OneRainyAfternoon #IdaLupino #MaryPickford

111 years ago:
The Old Actor (US)
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the theatre he panics at the thought of telling his family the bad news and decides to disguise himself as a beggar. His daughter's beau accidentally gives hi...
1912-05-06
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/143770
#TheOldActor #DWGriffith #MaryPickford #AlfredPaget #PreCode #ClassicFilm

102 years ago:
Through The Back Door (US)
A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.
1921-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/104664
#ThroughTheBackDoor #JackPickford #MaryPickford #UnitedArtists #PreCode #Film

113 years ago:
The Unchanging Sea (US)
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of tim...
1910-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/189584
#TheUnchangingSea #DWGriffith #MaryPickford #AlfredPaget #PreCode #ClassicMovies

105 years ago:
M'Liss (US)
M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
1918-05-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/174919
#MLiss #MaryPickford #TullyMarshall #PreCode #Film

111 years ago:
The Female of the Species (US)
A man and three women leave an abandoned mining town and travel across the desert. After the man's death, his wife plans revenge against her companion, whom the wife suspects had an affair with her deceased husband.
1912-04-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/127110
#TheFemaleoftheSpecies #DWGriffith #MaryPickford #PreCode #Movies

Here are 10 things you should know Mary Pickford, born 131 years ago today. She was a true Hollywood pioneer with a list of career accomplishments that has rarely been equaled. #MaryPickford #SilentMovies #OscarWinners #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #ClassicHollywood

#Datreveno #MaryPickford #Filmoj

Je ĉi dato en 1892 naskiĝis Mary Pickford, filmaktorino, kiu ankaŭ helpis fondi la Filmakademion kaj du filmajn produktadajn kompaniojn, estante tre influa en la evoluo de la filmindustrio en Hollywood. Strange diversaj fontoj montras diversajn nomojn por ŝia naskonomo. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pickford#cite_note-1
Bildo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Pickford_cph.3c17995u.jpg

113 years ago:
As It Is in Life (US)
A man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter.
1910-04-04
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/189998
#AsItIsinLife #DWGriffith #MaryPickford #PreCode #Film

94 years ago:
Coquette (US)
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
1929-03-30
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/85507
#Coquette #SamTaylor #MaryPickford #GeorgeIrving #BarbaraMcLean #WomenInFilm #UnitedArtists #PreCode #ClassicFilm

109 years ago:
Tess of the Storm Country (US)
A young girl, squatting on a wealthy man's land fights for her fellow squatters' right to stay.
1914-03-30
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/174023
#TessoftheStormCountry #EdwinSPorter #MaryPickford #OliveCarey #PreCode #ClassicMovies

90 years ago:
Secrets (US)
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the trag...
1933-03-16
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/105548
#Secrets #FrankBorzage #MaryPickford #CAubreySmith #UnitedArtists #Western #PreCode #ClassicMovies

105 years ago:
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (US)
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and she begins to be drawn into the world of the upper class.
1918-03-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/136842
#AmarillyofClothesLineAlley #MaryPickford #PreCode #ClassicMovies

107 years ago:
Poor Little Peppina (US)
Holding a grudge against Robert Torrens and his wife, who live in Italy, a member of the Mafia kidnaps their infant daughter Lois. Fifteen years later, after having been raised by Italian peasants, Lois, now called Peppina, dresses as a boy and stows away on a ship to America in order to avoid a mar...
1916-03-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/221543
#PoorLittlePeppina #MaryPickford #PreCode #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

Further to yesterday’s toot …#BuxtonOperaHouse once played host to three legends in one evening. In 1925, Anna Pavlova’s ballet company performed ‘Swan Lake’ at Buxton. Watching Pavlova were Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, who had been filming ‘Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall’ just a few miles away. Not bad for a theatre in a small town in rural Derbyshire! #MaryPickford. #DouglasFairbanks. #AnnaPavlova. #SwanLakeTchaikovsky #HighPeakDerbyshire.

Further to my toot yesterday … #BuxtonOperaHouse once hosted three legends in a single evening. In the summer of 1925, the ballet company led by Anna Pavlova performed ‘Swan Lake’ at Buxton. Watching Pavlova’s dying swan were Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, who had been filming a few miles away at Haddon Hall. Not a bad claim to fame from a theatre in a small town in rural Derbyshire!
#MaryPickford. #DouglasFairbanks. #BuxtonDerbyshire. #HighPeak #SwanLakeTchaikovsky

@JTrain As both a #genealogy and #silentfilm fan, I LOVE this amazing story! At the time, #MaryPickford was the most famous woman in the world! Thanks so much for sharing this!

Golden Age Actress of the Week

Mary Pickford (post 5 of 7)

Mary Pickford retired from movie acting in 1933. An astute businesswomen and producer throughout her career, she switched her focus to life behind the camera. A co-founder of United Artists, she finally sold her remaining shares in that company in 1956, for $3 million.

#Movies #Actress #Hollywood #MaryPickford

Golden Age Actress of the Week

Mary Pickford (post 4 of 7)

In 1909, Mary Pickford appeared in fifty-one films, most of them shorts. She starred in fifty-two features throughout her career. However, she didn’t adapt to the arrival of sound. She said of the “talkies” – “Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”

#Movies #Actress #Hollywood #Cats #MaryPickford