Mary Pickford

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."Mary Pickford, 86, First Great Film Star, Dies Five Days After Massive Stroke". Daily Variety. May 30, 1979. p. 1.  Dem dey consider Pickford she be one of de most recognisable women for history insyd.Whitfield, Eileen: Pickford: the Woman Who Made Hollywood (1997), pp. 8, 25, 28, 115, 125, 126, 131, 300, 376. University Press of Kentucky; ISBN 0-8131-2045-4

 Early life 
Na dem born Mary Pickford as Gladys Louise Smith weyBiography, pbs.org. Accessed December 20, 2023. 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.

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 Read further 





 Gladys goes to Hollywood at 100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces, by Merna Forster, via Google Books, pp. 204 sq.

 External links 

 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
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