Mary Pickford
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
American Experience
Self
1988
Film
A Kiss from Mary Pickford
Self (archive footage)
1927
Film
100% American
Mayme
1918
Film
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
Film
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Messenger's Sister
1909
Film
Astrid
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
The Renunciation
Kittie Ryan
1909
Film
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
1995
Film
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Coquette
Norma Besant
1929
Film
Mondo Hollywood
1967
Film
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
Self (archive footage)
2028
Film
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Anniversary
Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
1963
Film
The Black Pirate
Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1926
Film
Madame Butterfly
Cho-Cho-San
1915
Love Heeds Not Showers
Mary
1911
Sweet Revenge
1909
Film
Hollywood
Mary Pickford
1923
Film
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Self
1934
Film
Rags
Rags / Alice McCloud
1915
Film
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
1982
Film
Cinderella
Cinderella
1914
Film
Hearts Adrift
Nina
1914
Science
Mrs. Crawford
1911
Film
Hooray for Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
1976
Film
A Lucky Toothache
Bessie
1910
Film
A Lucky Toothache
Mary
1910
Film
The Casting Couch
1995
Film
Through the Back Door
Jeanne Bodamere
1921
Film
Hollywood Hobbies
Self (uncredited)
1939
Film
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
Film
To Save Her Soul
Agnes Hailey
1909
Film
They Would Elope
Bessie
1909
Film
Kiki
Kiki
1931
Film
The Necklace
The Maid / In Pawnshop
1909
Film
Mistress Nell
Nell Gwyn
1915
Film
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
2012
Three Sisters
Mary
1911
Film
Caprice
Mercy Baxter
1913
Film
A Strange Meeting
1909
Film
One of Many
Self (archive footage)
1927
Film
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self (archive footage)
1940
Film
So Near, Yet So Far
The Young Woman
1912
Film
The Gibson Goddess
Woman on Sidewalk
1909
Film
Esmeralda
Esmeralda Rogers
1915
Film
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
1931
The Foundling
Molly O
1915
Film
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
1998
White Roses
Betty
1910
Film
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (voice) (archive footage)
2007
Film
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
1953
Film
Rosita
Rosita
1923
Film
The Women Who Run Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
Less Than the Dust
Radha
1916
Film
Mary Pickford
Self/Archival Footage
2005
Film
Her First Biscuits
Biscuit Victim
1909
Film
The Violin Maker of Cremona
Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
1909
Film
The Faded Lilies
At party
1909
Film
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
1961
Film
Fanchon, the Cricket
Fanchon, the Cricket
1915
Film
The Call to Arms
A Messenger
1910
Film
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
Film
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca Randall
1917
Film
My Best Girl
Maggie Johnson
1927
Film
Stella Maris
Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
1918
Film
The Light That Came
Daisy
1909
Film
The Tramp and the Dictator
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Film
Little Annie Rooney
Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney
1925
Film
A Beast at Bay
The Young Woman
1912
Film
The Way of the World
Dora (Archive Footage)
1947
Film
The Slave
A Slave Girl
1909
Film
Cupid Angling
1918
Film
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Herself
1942
Film
Daddy-Long-Legs
Judy Abbott
1919
Film
The Pride of the Clan
Marget MacTavish
1917
Film
The Newlyweds
Alice Vance
1910
Film
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
The Daughter
1912
Film
Elf: Christmas in Tinseltown
Self (archive)
2004
Film
The Lonely Villa
1909
Film
Getting Even
Miss Lucy
1909
Film
The Usurer
Invalid Daughter
1910
Film
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Mabel Brown
1910
Film
Love Among the Roses
The Lacemaker
1910
Film
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Dorothy Vernon
1924
Film
The Taming of the Shrew
Caterina
1929
Film
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Second Couple
1909
Film
The New York Hat
Mary Harding, the Daughter
1912
Film
Two Memories
Marion's Sister
1909
Film
A Gold Necklace
Masie
1910
Film
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
Film
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
The Way of Man
Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
1909
Film
A Lodging for the Night
The Mexican Girl
1912
Film
The Italian Barber
Alice
1911
Film
The Little American
Angela Moore
1917
Film
Pollyanna
Pollyanna Whittier
1920
Film
A Little Princess
Sara Crewe
1917
Film
In Old Madrid
1911
Film
Lena and the Geese
Lena
1912
Film
The Love Light
Angela Carlotti
1921
Film
Secrets
Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton
1933
Film
Birth of the Tramp
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
My Baby
The Wife
1912
Film
When We Were in Our 'Teens
Mary
1910
Film
The Little Darling
Little Darling
1909
Film
The Gaucho
The Virgin Mary
1927
Film
Artful Kate
Artful Kate Stanley
1911
Film
An Arcadian Maid
The Arcadian Maid
1910
Film
The Old Actor
The Old Actor's Daughter
1912
Just Like a Woman
The Young Woman
1912
Film
The Unchanging Sea
The Daughter as an Adult
1910
An Affair of Hearts
Extra
1910
Film
Ramona
Ramona
1910
Film
A Romance of the Redwoods
Jenny Lawrence
1917
Film
His Lost Love
Mary
1909
The Medallion
Rumored
1911
Film
The School Teacher and the Waif
Nora, the Waif
1912
Film
Sweet and Twenty
Alice
1909
Film
The Informer
The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
1912
Film
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Self
1934
Film
Oh, Uncle!
Bessie
1909
Film
The Mender of Nets
The Little Net-Mender
1912
The One She Loved
The Wife
1912
Film
Heart o' the Hills
Mavis Hawn
1919
Film
The Voice of Hollywood
Self/Queen of the Movies
1930
Film
When a Man Loves
Tessie
1911
Film
Tess of the Storm Country
Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner
1922
Film
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
The Sealed Room
A Lady-in-Waiting
1909
Film
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
2010
Film
What Drink Did
1909
Film
All on Account of the Milk
The Young Woman
1910
Film
Decasia: The State of Decay
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
Waiter No. 5
The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
1910
Film
Johanna Enlists
Johanna Renssaller
1918
Film
The Eagle's Mate
Anemone Breckenridge
1914
Film
The Son's Return
Mary
1909
Film
The Eternal Grind
Louise
1916
Film
Sunshine Sue
1910
Film
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
2002
Film
The Broken Locket
Ruth King
1909
Film
A Good Little Devil
Juliet
1914
Film
Sparrows
Molly
1926
Film
Murders of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
What's Your Hurry?
Mary
1909
The Englishman and the Girl
The Girl
1910
Film
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
A Disguised Servant
1909
Film
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler
Self (archive footage)
2005
Film
The Peachbasket Hat
On street/In store
1909
Film
A Romance of the Western Hills
1910
For Her Brother's Sake
Madge Spotwood
1911
The Lighthouse Keeper
Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1911
Film
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Self - Actress (archive footage)
2017
Film
Hulda from Holland
Hulda
1916
Film
Pippa Passes
Girl in crowd
1909
Film
The Mountaineer's Honor
Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
1909
Film
M'Liss
Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
1918
Film
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Gwen
1917
Film
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
1921
Film
What the Daisy Said
Martha
1910
Film
Such a Little Queen
Queen Anna Victoria
1914
Film
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Amarilly Jenkins
1918
Film
The Hoodlum
Amy Burke
1919
Film
Sweet Memories
Polly Biblett
1911
Film
The Two Brothers
A Mexican
1910
Film
Iola's Promise
Iola
1912
Film
The Seventh Day
The Maid
1909
Film
The Better Way
Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
1911
Film
For the Queen's Honor
Princess Gilda
1911
Film
The Dream
Nell Herbert
1911
Film
Through the Breakers
An Extra
1909
Film
That Chink at Golden Gulch
1910
Film
Friends
Dora - the Orphan
1912
Film
Maid or Man
Elsie Keene
1911
Film
A Girl of Yesterday
Jane Stuart
1915
Film
The Thread of Destiny
Myrtle
1910
Film
A Pueblo Legend
The Indian Girl
1912
Second Sight
Gertrude Edgar
1911
Film
In the Bishop's Carriage
Nance Olden
1913
Film
The Inner Circle
The Rich Italian's Daughter
1912
Film
Suds
Amanda Afflick
1920
Film
Captain Kidd, Jr.
Mary MacTavish
1919
Film
Tender Hearts
Nellie
1909
In the Watches of the Night
Girl at Henry Brainard's
1909
Film
The Female of the Species
The Miner's Wife's Sister
1912
Film
A Timely Repentance
Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
1912
A Decree of Destiny
Mary
1911
Film
The Indian Runner's Romance
Blue Cloud's Wife
1909
Film
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Glad
1915
Film
His Duty
A young woman in the street
1909
Film
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
Self (uncredited)
1932
Film
The Narrow Road
Mrs. Jim Holcomb
1912
Film
The Unwelcome Guest
Jessie - the Slavey
1913
The Caddy's Dream
Miss Kelsomine
1911
Film
The Restoration
Alice Ashford
1909
Film
As It Is in Life
Daughter (Adult)
1910
Film
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
Mary
1910
Film
The Foundling
Molly O
1916
Film
The Country Doctor
Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
1909
Film
Behind the Scenes
Dolly Lane
1914
Film
In Old Kentucky
Partygoer
1909
Film
A Victim of Jealousy
The Wife's Friend
1910
The Trick that Failed
Nellie Burt
1909
Film
A Child's Impulse
Grace
1910
Film
How Could You, Jean?
Jean Mackaye
1918
Back to the Soil
Sadie Allen
1911
Film
In the Sultan's Garden
Hadee
1911
Film
In the Sultan's Garden
Haidee
1911
The Master and the Man
Elsie Graham
1911
Film
Little Pal
'Little Pal'
1915
Film
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
1917
The Little Teacher
The Little Teacher
1909
Film
The Awakening
The Widow's Daughter
1909
Film
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
Dove Eyes
1910
Film
Her Darkest Hour
Ruth
1911
Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm
1924
Film
The Toss of a Coin
Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
1911
Film
Poor Little Peppina
Peppina
1916
Film
Home Folks
The Young Woman
1912
Film
Wilful Peggy
Peggy
1910
Film
Tess of the Storm Country
Tessibel Skinner
1914
Film
A Manly Man
Lola
1911
Film
With the Enemy's Help
Faro Kate
1912
From the Bottom of the Sea
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)
1911
The Twisted Trail
Molly Hendricks
1910
Film
A Plain Song
Edith
1910
Film
The Mirror
Dorothy
1911
Film
Fate's Interception
The Mexican Girl
1912
Film
Won by a Fish
The Woman
1912
Film
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Mabel
1910
The Fair Dentist
Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist
1911
The Smoker
George's Wife
1910
Film
Simple Charity
Miss Wilkins
1910
The Secret of the Palm
Edna
1911
The Mexican Sweethearts
The Señorita
1909
Film
May and December
May
1910
When the Cat's Away
Dorothy, The Wife
1911
A Rich Revenge
Jennie
1910
The Skating Bug
The Girl
1911
Film
The Rose's Story
Unknown Role
1911
The Message in the Bottle
Louise Spencer
1911
The Fisher-Maid
Paula, The Fishing-Maid
1911
Film
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
1911
The Call of the Song
Amy Gordon
1911
Film
From Farm to Fame
Mary Pickford
1922
Film
'Tween Two Loves
Grace
1911
Film
Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
Self
2023
Film
His Wife's Visitor
Bessie Wright
1909
Film
An Indian Summer
The Widow's Daughter
1912
At a Quarter of Two
Mrs Warren
1911
Film
The Temptress
Lucille Allen
1911
The Test
Bessie
1909
The Portrait
Little Vera - the Model
1911
In the Season of Buds
Mabel
1910
Film
His Dress Shirt
Mrs. Kirby
1911
Film
Their First Misunderstanding
Mae Darcy
1911
Film
The Convert
Agnes Boyd
1911
Never Again
The Girl
1910
Behind the Stockade
Florence Williams
1911
While There is hope, There is Life
Unknown Role
1911
Film
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Mary Pickford
1930
Film
The Courting of Mary
Mary
1911
The Heart of an Outlaw
The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult
1909
Tracked
Unknown Role
1911
Honor Thy Father
Mary Fuller
1912
The Sentinel Asleep
Unknown Role
1911
Film
As a Boy Dreams
1911
The Stampede
Nello
1911
A Gasoline Engagement
Flora Powell
1911
How Mary Fixed it
Mary
1911
A Midnight Adventure
Eleanor
1909
The Woman from Mellon's
Mary Petersby
1910