# Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford

human| Ein sex anaa gender | female  |
| Ein country of citizenship | Canada  |
| Name in native language | Mary Pickford  |
| Birth name | Gladys Louise Smith  |
| Name wey dem give am | Mary  |
| Family name | Pickford  |
| Pseudonym | Mary Pickford  |
| Ein date of birth | 8 April 1892  |
| Place dem born am | Toronto  |
| Date wey edie | 29 May 1979  |
| Place wey edie | Santa Monica  |
| Manner of death | natural causes  |
| Cause of death | stroke  |
| Place wey dem bury am | Forest Lawn Memorial Park  |
| Ein poppie | John Charles Smith  |
| Mummie | Charlotte Hennessy  |
| Sibling | Jack Pickford, Lottie Pickford, Olive Thomas  |
| Spouse | Owen Moore, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Rogers  |
| Native language | English  |
| Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign | English  |
| Writing language | English  |
| Student of | Frances Robinson-Duff  |
| Residence | Toronto, Pickfair  |
| Work location | United States, Canada  |
| Start of work period | 1900  |
| End of work period | 1955  |
| Political party ein member | Republican Party  |
| Religion anaa worldview | Catholicism, Methodism, Christian Science  |
| Filmography | Mary Pickford filmography  |
| Dey archive for | Mary Pickford Foundation  |
| Award e receive | Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Honorary Award, Canada's Walk of Fame, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame  |
| Dem nominate for | Academy Award for Best Actress  |
| Time period | 20th century  |
| Documentation files at | SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts  |

**Gladys Marie Smith** (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), she be known professionally as **Mary Pickford**, na she be Canadian-American stage den screen actress den producer wey ein career span five decades. She be pioneer for de US film industry insyd, she co-found Pickford–Fairbanks Studios den United Artists, wey she san so be one of de 36 founders of de Academy of Motion Picture Arts den Sciences. Dem dey consider Pickford she be one of de most recognisable women for history insyd.

## Early life

Bust of Mary Pickford for University Avenue, near ein Toronto birthplace
Na dem born Mary Pickford as Gladys Louise Smith wey insyd 1892, at 211 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, now de location of de Hospital for Sick Children. Na ein poppie, John Charles Smith, be de son of English Methodist immigrants, wey he work variety of odd jobs. Na ein mommie, Charlotte Hennessey, be of Irish Catholic descent wey she work for a time as a seamstress. Na she get two younger siblings, both actors. Na dem bill Charlotte as "Lottie Pickford" (born 1893) wey na dem bill John Charles Jr. as "Jack Pickford" (born 1896). Make dem please ein husby ein relatives, Pickford ein mommie baptize ein kiddies as Methodists, de religion of dema poppie. Na John Charles Sr. be alcoholic. He die for February 11, 1898, from a fatal blood clot cause by a workplace accident wen na he be a purser plus Niagara Steamship.

## Read further

* Schmidt, Christel, ed. (2013). *Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies*. Library of Congress/University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-3647-9.
* Schmidt, Christel (2003). "Preserving Pickford: The Mary Pickford Collection and the Library of Congress". *The Moving Image*. **3** (1). Association of Moving Image Archivists: 59–81. doi:10.1353/mov.2003.0013. S2CID 191609277.
* Harris, Gloria G.; Hannah S. Cohen (2012). "Chapter 10. Entertainers". *Women Trailblazers of California: Pioneers to the Present*. Charleston, SC: The History Press. pp. 151–65 [163–66]. ISBN 978-1609496753.
* Petersen, Anne (2014). *Scandals of Classic Hollywood*. Penguin Publishing.
* Gladys goes to Hollywood at *100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces*, by Merna Forster, via Google Books, pp. 204 sq.

* Mary Pickford at de Internet Broadway Database
* Mary Pickford at IMDb
* Mary Pickford at de Women Film Pioneers Project
* About Mary Pickford, from de Mary Pickford Foundation website
* Mary Pickford CBC Radio interview May 25, 1959
* Mary Pickford at de *Encyclopædia Britannica*
* Footage of Mary Pickford with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks in 1919
* Mary Pickford at Virtual History
* Mary Pickford–Buddy Rogers correspondence, 1943–1976, hold by de Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
* Mary Pickford scrapbook, 1915–1917, hold by de Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
* Mary Pickford papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
* *Mary Pickford – Whose Real Name is Gladys Smith* from *Current Opinion Magazine*, June, 1918