"I knew she was a silent screen legend and the first movie star. I didn't realize that she had helped make Hollywood culture as a fierce businesswoman."
Read More »One of the silent screen’s most important stars (and pioneering producers) is being celebrated on an innovative new website. The Mary Pickford Foundation has just launched www.marypickford.org, following a program held in her honor at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Pickford Center ...
Read More »The Mary Pickford Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have teamed up to launch a multi-year partnership to honor the legacy of Mary Pickford. Pickford, who was one of the founding members of the Academy and a co-founder of United Artists, also was one of the most famous ac...
Read More »It's always good news when a woman whose contributions to our culture have receded from contemporary knowledge gets brought back into mainstream culture.
Read More »I know a bit about Mary Pickford from reading Cari Beauchamp's biography of Frances Marion Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood. Suffice it to say she was a very important person in early Hollywood. She was one of the 36 founders of the Academy...
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