Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer. She was a co-founder of both the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio (along with Douglas Fairbanks) and, later, the United Artists film studio (with Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith), and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who present the yearly "Oscar" award ceremony.
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Mary Pickford
1. Profile :-
Pickford in 1930
Born Gladys Louise Smith
April 8, 1892
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died May 29, 1979 (aged 87)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Burial place Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
Citizenship British subject (1892-1920)
United States (1920-1979)
Canada (1978-1979)
Occupation Actress, producer
Years active 1905–1949
Spouse(s)
Owen Moore
(m. 1911; div. 1920)
Douglas Fairbanks
(m. 1920; div. 1936)
Charles "Buddy" Rogers
(m. 1937)
Children 2
Parent(s)
Charlotte Hennessey
John Charles Smith
Relatives
Lottie Pickford (sister)
Jack Pickford (brother)
2. Introduction :-
Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-born film actress and producer. She was a co-founder of both the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio (along with Douglas Fairbanks) and, later, the United Artists film studio (with Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith), and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who present the yearly "Oscar" award ceremony.
Pickford was known in her prime as "America's Sweetheart" and the "girl with the curls". She was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting. Pickford 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 as having defined the ingénue archetype in cinema.
She was awarded the second ever Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound-film role in Coquette (1929) and also received an honorary Academy Award in 1976. In consideration of her contributions to American cinema, the American Film Institute ranked Pickford as 24th in its 1999 list of greatest female stars of classic Hollywood Cinema.
3. Early life :-
*Bust of Mary Pickford on University Avenue, near her Toronto birthplace
*ckford's birthplace is marked by an Ontario historical marker
Mary Pickford was born Gladys Louise Smith in 1892 (although she would later claim 1893 or 1894 as her year of birth) at 211 University Avenue,A Toronto, Ontario. Her father, John Charles Smith, was the son of English Methodist immigrants, and worked a variety of odd jobs. Her mother, Charlotte Hennessey, was of Irish Catholic descent and worked for a time as a seamstress. She had two younger siblings, Charlotte, called "Lottie" (born 1893), and John Charles, called "Jack" (born 1896), who also became actors. To please her husband's relatives, Pickford's mother baptized her children as Methodists, the religion of their father. John Charles Smith was an alcoholic; he abandoned the family and died on February 11, 1898, from a fatal blood clot caused by a workplace accident when he was a purser with Niagara Steamship.
When Gladys was age four, her household was under infectious quarantine, a public health measure. Their devoutly Catholic maternal grandmother (Catherine Faeley Hennessey) asked a visiting Roman Catholic priest to baptize the children. Pickford was at this time baptized as Gladys Marie Smith.
Charlotte Smith began taking in boarders after being widowed. One of these was a theatrical stage manager. At his suggestion, Gladys (age 7) was given two small roles, one as a boy and the other as a girl, in a stock company production of The Silver King at Toronto's Princess Theatre. She subsequently acted in many melodramas with Toronto's Valentine Company, finally playing the major child role in their version of The Silver King. She capped her short career in Toronto with the starring role of Little Eva in their production of Uncle Tom's Cabin adapted from the 1852 novel.
4. Career :-
i. Early years
*Mary Pickford, 1916
By the early 1900s, theatre had become a family enterprise. Gladys, her mother and two younger siblings toured the United States by rail, performing in third-rate companies and plays. After six impoverished years, Pickford allowed one more summer to land a leading role on Broadway, planning to quit acting if she failed. In 1906 Gladys, Lottie and Jack Smith supported singer Chauncey Olcott on Broadway in Edmund Burke. Gladys finally landed a supporting role in a 1907 Broadway play, The Warrens of Virginia. The play was written by William C. deMille, whose brother, Cecil, appeared in the cast. David Belasco, the producer of the play, insisted that Gladys Smith assume the stage name Mary Pickford. After completing the Broadway run and touring the play, however, Pickford was again out of work.
On April 19, 1909, the Biograph Company director D. W. Griffith screen-tested her at the company's New York studio for a role in the nickelodeon film, Pippa Passes. The role went to someone else but Griffith was immediately taken with Pickford. She quickly grasped that movie acting was simpler than the stylized stage acting of the day. Most Biograph actors earned $5 a day but, after Pickford's single day in the studio, Griffith agreed to pay her $10 a day against a guarantee of $40 a week.
Pickford, like all actors at Biograph, played both bit parts and leading roles, including mothers, ingenues, charwomen, spitfires, slaves, Native Americans, spurned women, and a prostitute. As Pickford said of her success at Biograph:
I played scrubwomen and secretaries and women of all nationalities ... I decided that if I could get into as many pictures as possible, I'd become known, and there would be a demand for my work.
She appeared in 51 films in 1909 – almost one a week. While at Biograph, she suggested to Florence La Badie to "try pictures", invited her to the studio and later introduced her to D. W. Griffith, who launched La Badie's career.
In January 1910, Pickford traveled with a Biograph crew to Los Angeles. Many other film companies wintered on the West Coast, escaping the weak light and short days that hampered winter shooting in the East. Pickford added to her 1909 Biographs (Sweet and Twenty, They Would Elope, and To Save Her Soul, to name a few) with films made in California.
Actors were not listed in the credits in Griffith's company. Audiences noticed and identified Pickford within weeks of her first film appearance. Exhibitors in turn capitalized on her popularity by advertising on sandwich boards that a film featuring "The Girl with the Golden Curls", "Blondilocks", or "The Biograph Girl" was inside.
Pickford left Biograph in December 1910. The following year, she starred in films at Carl Laemmle's Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP). IMP was absorbed into Universal Pictures in 1912, along with Majestic. Unhappy with their creative standards, Pickford returned to work with Griffith in 1912. Some of her best performances were in his films, such as Friends, The Mender of Nets, Just Like a Woman, and The Female of the Species. That year Pickford also introduced Dorothy and Lillian Gish (both friends from her days in touring melodrama) to Griffith. Both became major silent stars, in comedy and tragedy, respectively. Pickford made her last Biograph picture, The New York Hat, in late 1912.
She returned to Broadway in the David Belasco production of A Good Little Devil (1912). This was a major turning point in her career. Pickford, who had always hoped to conquer the Broadway stage, discovered how deeply she missed film acting. In 1913, she decided to work exclusively in film. The previous year, Adolph Zukor had formed Famous Players in Famous Plays. It was later known as Famous Players-Lasky and then Paramount Pictures, one of the first American feature film companies.
*Mary Pickford, 1916
Pickford left the stage to join Zukor's roster of stars. Zukor believed film's potential lay in recording theatrical players in replicas of their most famous stage roles and productions. Zukor first filmed Pickford in a silent version of A Good Little Devil. The film, produced in 1913, showed the play's Broadway actors reciting every line of dialogue, resulting in a stiff film that Pickford later called "one of the worst [features] I ever made ... it was deadly". Zukor agreed; he held the film back from distribution for a year.
Pickford's work in material written for the camera by that time had attracted a strong following. Comedy-dramas, such as In the Bishop's Carriage (1913), Caprice (1913), and especially Hearts Adrift (1914), made her irresistible to moviegoers. Hearts Adrift was so popular that Pickford asked for the first of her many publicized pay raises based on the profits and reviews. The film marked the first time Pickford’s name was featured above the title on movie marquees. Tess of the Storm Country was released five weeks later. Biographer Kevin Brownlow observed that the film "sent her career into orbit and made her the most popular actress in America, if not the world".
Her appeal was summed up two years later by the February 1916 issue of Photoplay as "luminous tenderness in a steel band of gutter ferocity". Only Charlie Chaplin, who slightly surpassed Pickford's popularity in 1916, had a similarly spellbinding pull with critics and the audience. Each enjoyed a level of fame far exceeding that of other actors. Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Pickford was believed to be the most famous woman in the world, or, as a silent-film journalist described her, "the best known woman who has ever lived, the woman who was known to more people and loved by more people than any other woman that has been in all history".
ii. Stardom :-
*Mary Pickford, 1920
Pickford starred in 52 features throughout her career. On June 24, 1916, Pickford signed a new contract with Zukor that granted her full authority over production of the films in which she starred, and a record-breaking salary of $10,000 a week. In addition, Pickford's compensation was half of a film's profits, with a guarantee of $1,040,000 (US$ 17,700,000 in 2018). Occasionally, she played a child, in films such as The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) and Pollyanna (1920). Pickford's fans were devoted to these "little girl" roles, but they were not typical of her career.
In August 1918, Pickford's contract expired and, when refusing Zukor's terms for a renewal, she was offered $250,000 to leave the motion picture business. She declined, and went to First National Pictures, which agreed to her terms. In 1919, Pickford, along with D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks, formed the independent film production company United Artists. Through United Artists, Pickford continued to produce and perform in her own movies; she could also distribute them as she chose. In 1920, Pickford's film Pollyanna grossed around $1,100,000. The following year, Pickford's film Little Lord Fauntleroy was also a success, and in 1923, Rosita grossed over $1,000,000 as well. During this period, she also made Little Annie Rooney (1925), another film in which Pickford played a child, Sparrows (1926), which blended the Dickensian with newly minted German expressionist style, and My Best Girl (1927), a romantic comedy featuring her future husband Buddy Rogers.
*A lobby card for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
The arrival of sound was her undoing. Pickford underestimated the value of adding sound to movies, claiming that "adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo".
She played a reckless socialite in Coquette (1929), a role for which her famous ringlets were cut into a 1920s' bob. Pickford had already cut her hair in the wake of her mother's death in 1928. Fans were shocked at the transformation. Pickford's hair had become a symbol of female virtue, and when she cut it, the act made front-page news in The New York Times and other papers. Coquette was a success and won her an Academy Award for Best Actress, although this was highly controversial. The public failed to respond to her in the more sophisticated roles. Like most movie stars of the silent era, Pickford found her career fading as talkies became more popular among audiences.
Her next film, The Taming of The Shrew, made with husband Douglas Fairbanks, was not well received at the box office. Established Hollywood actors were panicked by the impending arrival of the talkies. On March 29, 1928, The Dodge Brothers Hour was broadcast from Pickford's bungalow, featuring Fairbanks, Chaplin, Norma Talmadge, Gloria Swanson, John Barrymore, D.W. Griffith, and Dolores del Rio, among others. They spoke on the radio show to prove that they could meet the challenge of talking movies.
A transition in the roles Pickford selected came when she was in her late 30s, no longer able to play the children, teenage spitfires, and feisty young women so adored by her fans, and was not suited for the glamorous and vampish heroines of early sound. In 1933, she underwent a Technicolor screen test for an animated/live action film version of Alice in Wonderland, but Walt Disney discarded the project when Paramount released its own version of the book. Only one Technicolor still of her screen test still exists. She retired from acting in 1933; her last acting film was released in 1934. She continued to produce for others, however, including Sleep, My Love (1948; with Claudette Colbert) and Love Happy (1949), with the Marx Brothers).
5. The film industry :-
Pickford used her stature in the movie industry to promote a variety of causes. Although her image depicted fragility and innocence, Pickford proved to be a worthy businesswoman who took control of her career in a cutthroat industry.
During World War I, she promoted the sale of Liberty Bonds, making an intensive series of fund-raising speeches that kicked off in Washington, D.C., where she sold bonds alongside Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Theda Bara, and Marie Dressler. Five days later she spoke on Wall Street to an estimated 50,000 people. Though Canadian-born, she was a powerful symbol of Americana, kissing the American flag for cameras and auctioning one of her world-famous curls for $15,000. In a single speech in Chicago she sold an estimated five million dollars' worth of bonds. She was christened the U.S. Navy's official "Little Sister"; the Army named two cannons after her and made her an honorary colonel.
At the end of World War I, Pickford conceived of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, an organization to help financially needy actors. Leftover funds from her work selling Liberty Bonds were put toward its creation, and in 1921, the Motion Picture Relief Fund (MPRF) was officially incorporated, with Joseph Schenck voted its first president and Pickford its vice president. In 1932, Pickford spearheaded the "Payroll Pledge Program", a payroll-deduction plan for studio workers who gave one half of one percent of their earnings to the MPRF. As a result, in 1940, the Fund was able to purchase land and build the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital, in Woodland Hills, California.
An astute businesswoman, Pickford became her own producer within three years of her start in features. According to her Foundation, "she oversaw every aspect of the making of her films, from hiring talent and crew to overseeing the script, the shooting, the editing, to the final release and promotion of each project". She demanded (and received) these powers in 1916, when she was under contract to Zukor's Famous Players In Famous Plays (later Paramount). Zukor acquiesced to her refusal to participate in block-booking, the widespread practice of forcing an exhibitor to show a bad film of the studio's choosing to also be able to show a Pickford film. In 1916, Pickford's films were distributed, singly, through a special distribution unit called Artcraft. The Mary Pickford Corporation was briefly Pickford's motion-picture production company.
In 1919, she increased her power by co-founding United Artists (UA) with Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and her soon-to-be husband, Douglas Fairbanks. Before UA's creation, Hollywood studios were vertically integrated, not only producing films but forming chains of theaters. Distributors (also part of the studios) arranged for company productions to be shown in the company's movie venues. Filmmakers relied on the studios for bookings; in return they put up with what many considered creative interference.
United Artists broke from this tradition. It was solely a distribution company, offering independent film producers access to its own screens as well as the rental of temporarily unbooked cinemas owned by other companies. Pickford and Fairbanks produced and shot their films after 1920 at the jointly owned Pickford-Fairbanks studio on Santa Monica Boulevard. The producers who signed with UA were true independents, producing, creating and controlling their work to an unprecedented degree. As a co-founder, as well as the producer and star of her own films, Pickford became the most powerful woman who has ever worked in Hollywood. By 1930, Pickford's acting career had largely faded. After retiring three years later, however, she continued to produce films for United Artists. She and Chaplin remained partners in the company for decades. Chaplin left the company in 1955, and Pickford followed suit in 1956, selling her remaining shares for three million dollars.
6. Personal life :-
*Mary Pickford, 1921
Pickford was married three times. She married Owen Moore, an Irish-born silent film actor, on January 7, 1911. It is rumored she became pregnant by Moore in the early 1910s and had a miscarriage or an abortion. Some accounts suggest this resulted in her later inability to have children. The couple had numerous marital problems, notably Moore's alcoholism, insecurity about living in the shadow of Pickford's fame, and bouts of domestic violence. The couple lived together on-and-off for several years.
Pickford became secretly involved in a relationship with Douglas Fairbanks. They toured the U.S. together in 1918 to promote Liberty Bond sales for the World War I effort. Around this time, Pickford also suffered from the flu during the 1918 flu pandemic. Pickford divorced Moore on March 2, 1920, after she agreed to his $100,000 demand for a settlement. She married Fairbanks just days later on March 28, 1920. They went to Europe for their honeymoon; fans in London and in Paris caused riots trying to get to the famous couple. The couple's triumphant return to Hollywood was witnessed by vast crowds who turned out to hail them at railway stations across the United States.
The Mark of Zorro (1920) and a series of other swashbucklers gave the popular Fairbanks a more romantic, heroic image. Pickford continued to epitomize the virtuous but fiery girl next door. Even at private parties, people instinctively stood up when Pickford entered a room; she and her husband were often referred to as "Hollywood royalty". Their international reputations were broad. Foreign heads of state and dignitaries who visited the White House often asked if they could also visit Pickfair, the couple's mansion in Beverly Hills.
Dinners at Pickfair included a number of notable guests. Charlie Chaplin, Fairbanks' best friend, was often present. Other guests included George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Elinor Glyn, Helen Keller, H. G. Wells, Lord Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Noël Coward, Max Reinhardt, Baron Nishi, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Austen Chamberlain, Sir Harry Lauder, and Meher Baba, among others. The public nature of Pickford's second marriage strained it to the breaking point. Both she and Fairbanks had little time off from producing and acting in their films. They were also constantly on display as America's unofficial ambassadors to the world, leading parades, cutting ribbons, and making speeches. When their film careers both began to flounder at the end of the silent era, Fairbanks' restless nature prompted him to overseas travel (something which Pickford did not enjoy). When Fairbanks' romance with Sylvia, Lady Ashley became public in the early 1930s, he and Pickford separated. They divorced January 10, 1936. Fairbanks' son by his first wife, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., claimed his father and Pickford long regretted their inability to reconcile.
*On June 24, 1937, Pickford *married her third and last husband, actor and band leader *Buddy Rogers. They adopted two children : - Roxanne (born 1944, adopted 1944) and Ronald Charles (born 1937, adopted 1943, a.k.a. Ronnie Pickford Rogers). As a PBS American Experience documentary noted, Pickford's relationship with her children was tense. She criticized their physical imperfections, including Ronnie's small stature and Roxanne's crooked teeth. Both children later said their mother was too self-absorbed to provide real maternal love. In 2003, Ronnie recalled that "Things didn't work out that much, you know. But I'll never forget her. I think that she was a good woman."
7. Later years :-
After retiring from the screen, Pickford became an alcoholic, as her father had been. Her mother Charlotte died of breast cancer in March 1928. Her siblings, Lottie and Jack, both died of alcohol-related causes. These deaths, her divorce from Fairbanks, and the end of silent films left Pickford deeply depressed. Her relationship with her children, Roxanne and Ronald, was turbulent at best. Pickford withdrew and gradually became a recluse, remaining almost entirely at Pickfair and allowing visits only from Lillian Gish, her stepson Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and few other people. She appeared in court in 1959, in a matter pertaining to her co-ownership of North Carolina TV station WSJS-TV. The court date coincided with the date of her 67th birthday; under oath, when asked to give her age, Pickford replied: "I'm 21, going on 20."
In the mid-1960s, Pickford often received visitors only by telephone, speaking to them from her bedroom. Buddy Rogers often gave guests tours of Pickfair, including views of a genuine western bar Pickford had bought for Douglas Fairbanks, and a portrait of Pickford in the drawing room. A print of this image now hangs in the Library of Congress. In addition to her Oscar as best actress for Coquette (1929), Mary Pickford received an Academy Honorary Award in 1976 for lifetime achievement. The Academy sent a TV crew to her house to record her short statement of thanks – offering the public a very rare glimpse into Pickfair Manor.
Pickford had ceased to be a British subject when she became an American citizen upon her marriage to Fairbanks in 1920. Thus, she never acquired Canadian citizenship when it was first created in 1947. Toward the end of her life, Pickford made arrangements with the Department of Citizenship to acquire Canadian citizenship because she wished to "die as a Canadian". Her request was approved and she became a dual Canadian-American citizen.
8. Death :-
On May 29, 1979, Pickford died at a Santa Monica, California, hospital of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage she had suffered the week before. She was interred in the Garden of Memory of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park cemetery in Glendale, California.
9. Legacy :-
*Pickford's handprints and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California
*Pickford's star on the Walk of Fame in Toronto
*Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood, California
Pickford was awarded a star in the category of motion pictures on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6280 Hollywood Blvd.
The Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood, constructed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, opened in 1948 as a radio and television studio facility.
The Mary Pickford Theater at the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress is named in her honor.
The Mary Pickford Auditorium at Claremont McKenna College is named in her honor.
A first-run movie theatre in Cathedral City, California, is called The Mary Pickford Theatre. The theater is a grand one with several screens and is built in the shape of a Spanish Cathedral, complete with bell tower and three-story lobby. The lobby contains a historic display with original artifacts belonging to Pickford and Buddy Rogers, her last husband. Among them are a rare and spectacular beaded gown she wore in the film Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924) designed by Mitchell Leisen, her special Oscar, and a jewelry box.
The 1980 stage musical The Biograph Girl, about the silent film era, features the character of Pickford.
In 2007, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sued the estate of the deceased Buddy Rogers' second wife, Beverly Rogers, in order to stop the public sale of one of Pickford's Oscars.
A bust and historical plaque marks her birthplace in Toronto, now the site of the Hospital for Sick Children. The plaque was unveiled by her husband Buddy Rogers in 1973. The bust by artist Eino Gira was added ten years later. Her date of birth on the plaque is April 8, 1893. This can only be assumed to be because her date of birth was never registered – and throughout her life, beginning as a child, she led many people to believe that she was a year younger so she would appear to be more of an acting prodigy and continue to be cast in younger roles, which were more plentiful in the theatre.
The family home had been demolished in 1943, and many of the bricks delivered to Pickford in California. Proceeds from the sale of the property were donated by Pickford to build a bungalow in East York, Ontario, then a Toronto suburb. The bungalow was the first prize in a lottery in Toronto to benefit war charities, and Pickford unveiled the home on May 26, 1943.
In 1993, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to her.
Pickford received a posthumous star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto in 1999.
Pickford was featured on a Canadian postage stamp in 2006.
From January 2011 until July 2011, the Toronto International Film Festival exhibited a collection of Mary Pickford memorabilia in the Canadian Film Gallery of the TIFF Bell LightBox building.
In February 2011, the Spadina Museum, dedicated to the 1920s and 1930s era in Toronto, staged performances of Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story, a one-woman musical based on the life and career of Pickford.
In 2013, a copy of an early Pickford film that was thought to be lost (Their First Misunderstanding) was found by Peter Massie, a carpenter tearing down an abandoned barn in New Hampshire. It was donated to Keene State College and is currently undergoing restoration by the Library of Congress for exhibition. The film is notable as being the first in which Pickford was credited by name.
On August 29, 2014, while presenting Behind The Scenes (1914) at Cinecon, film historian Jeffrey Vance announced he is working with the Mary Pickford Foundation on what will be her official biography.
The Google Doodle of April 8, 2017 commemorates Mary Pickford's 125th birthday.
Mary Pickford filmography:-
May 24, 1909 Two Memories Yes Marion's sister D.W. Griffith Split-reel
May 31, 1909 His Duty Yes One of the children on the street D.W. Griffith Split-reel
June 7, 1909 The Violin Maker of Cremona Yes Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter D.W. Griffith
June 10, 1909 The Lonely Villa Yes One of the Cullison Children D.W. Griffith Split-reel
June 14, 1909 The Son's Return Yes Mary Clark D.W. Griffith
June 17, 1909 Faded Lilies Yes Girl at Party D.W. Griffith Split-reel
June 17, 1909 Her First Biscuits Yes Biscuit Victim D.W. Griffith Split-reel
The first film that Pickford made
June 24, 1909 The Peach-Basket Hat Yes Woman on the Street and in Store D.W. Griffith Split-reel
June 28, 1909 The Way of Man Yes Winnie, Mabel's Cousin D.W. Griffith
July 1, 1909 The Necklace Yes The Maid in the Pawnshop D.W. Griffith
July 8, 1909 The Country Doctor Yes Poor Mother's Elder Daughter D.W. Griffith
July 12, 1909 The Cardinal's Conspiracy Yes The Señorita D.W. Griffith
July 15, 1909 Tender Hearts Yes Nellie D.W. Griffith Split-reel
July 19, 1909 The Renunciation Yes Kittie Ryan D.W. Griffith
July 22, 1909 Sweet and Twenty Yes Alice D.W. Griffith Split-reel
July 29, 1909 The Slave Yes A Young Girl at Court D.W. Griffith
August 9, 1909 They Would Elope Yes Bessie D.W. Griffith
August 19, 1909 His Wife's Visitor Yes Bessie Wright D.W. Griffith
August 23, 1909 The Indian Runner's Romance Yes Blue Cloud's Wife D.W. Griffith
August 26, 1909 "Oh, Uncle!" Yes Bessie D.W. Griffith Split-reel
August 26, 1909 The Seventh Day Yes The Maid D.W. Griffith Split-reel
September 2, 1909 The Little Darling Yes The Little Darling D.W. Griffith
September 2, 1909 The Sealed Room Yes A Lady-in-Waiting D.W. Griffith
September 6, 1909 1776, or The Hessian Renegades Yes A member of the soldier's family D.W. Griffith
September 13, 1909 Getting Even Yes Yes Miss Lucy D.W. Griffith Split-reel
September 16, 1909 The Broken Locket Yes Ruth King D.W. Griffith
September 20, 1909 In Old Kentucky Yes Homecoming Party D.W. Griffith
September 30, 1909 The Awakening Yes Yes The Widow's Daughter D.W. Griffith
October 11, 1909 The Little Teacher Yes The Little Teacher D.W. Griffith
October 18, 1909 His Lost Love Yes Mary D.W. Griffith
October 25, 1909 In the Watches of the Night Yes Girl at Brainard's D.W. Griffith
November 1, 1909 The Gibson Goddess Yes Girl on Sidewalk D.W. Griffith Split-reel
November 1, 1909 What's Your Hurry? Yes Mary D.W. Griffith Split-reel
November 8, 1909 The Restoration Yes Alice Ashford D.W. Griffith
November 11, 1909 The Light That Came Yes Vivian and Daisy D.W. Griffith
November 18, 1909 A Midnight Adventure Yes Eleanor D.W. Griffith Split-reel
November 25, 1909 The Mountaineer's Honor Yes Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl D.W. Griffith
November 29, 1909 The Trick That Failed Yes Nellie Burt D.W. Griffith Split-reel
December 6, 1909 Through the Breakers Yes An extra D.W. Griffith
December 16, 1909 The Test Yes Bessie D.W. Griffith
December 27, 1909 To Save Her Soul Yes Agnes Hailey D.W. Griffith
December 30, 1909 The Day After Yes D.W. Griffith Split-reel
December 31, 1909 The Heart of an Outlaw Yes The Outlaw's Daughter D.W. Griffith
Biograph (1910)
Pickford appeared in 34 Biograph films released in 1910. All of these films are one-reelers.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
January 15, 1910 All on Account of the Milk Yes The Young Woman Frank Powell[14]
February 3, 1910 The Woman from Mellon's Yes Mary Petersby, the Daughter D.W. Griffith
February 17, 1910 The Englishman and the Girl Yes The Girl D.W. Griffith Lost
March 3, 1910 The Newlyweds Yes Alice Vance D.W. Griffith
March 7, 1910 The Thread of Destiny Yes Myrtle D.W. Griffith
March 24, 1910 The Twisted Trail Yes Molly Hendricks D.W. Griffith
March 31, 1910 The Smoker Yes George's Wife Frank Powell
April 4, 1910 As It Is In Life Yes George Forrester's Daughter, as an Adult D.W. Griffith
April 7, 1910 A Rich Revenge Yes Jennie D.W. Griffith
April 11, 1910 A Romance of the Western Hills Yes Indian D.W. Griffith
May 5, 1910 The Unchanging Sea Yes The Daughter as an Adult D.W. Griffith
May 9, 1910 Love Among the Roses Yes The Lacemaker D.W. Griffith
May 12, 1910 The Two Brothers Yes A Mexican D.W. Griffith
May 23, 1910 Ramona Yes Ramona D.W. Griffith Based on the novel by Helen Hunt Jackson
June 2, 1910 In the Season of Buds Yes Mabel D.W. Griffith
June 9, 1910 A Victim of Jealousy Yes The Wife's Friend D.W. Griffith
June 20, 1910 Never Again Yes The Girl Frank Powell[16]
June 20, 1910 May and December Yes Yes May Frank Powell[14]
June 27, 1910 A Child's Impulse Yes Grace D.W. Griffith
June 30, 1910 Muggsy's First Sweetheart Yes Mabel Brown D.W. Griffith
July 11, 1910 What the Daisy Said Yes Martha D.W. Griffith
July 25, 1910 The Call to Arms Yes A Messenger D.W. Griffith
August 1, 1910 An Arcadian Maid Yes Priscilla D.W. Griffith
August 15, 1910 When We Were In Our 'Teens Yes Mary Frank Powell
August 22, 1910 The Sorrows of the Unfaithful Yes Mary D.W. Griffith
August 25, 1910 Wilful Peggy Yes Peggy D.W. Griffith
September 1, 1910 Muggsy Becomes a Hero Yes Mabel Frank Powell
October 6, 1910 A Gold Necklace Yes Mazie Frank Powell
October 13, 1910 The Lucky Toothache Yes Bessie Frank Powell
November 5, 1910 Waiter No. 5 Yes The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée D.W. Griffith
November 14, 1910 Simple Charity Yes Miss Wilkins D.W. Griffith
November 21, 1910 The Song of the Wildwood Flute Yes Dove Eyes D.W. Griffith
November 28, 1910 A Plain Song Yes Edith D.W. Griffith
December 22, 1910 White Roses Yes Betty Frank Powell
Biograph (1911)
Pickford left the Biograph Company at the end of 1910. The last films that she made for them before her departure were released in early 1911. All of these five films are one-reelers.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
January 5, 1911 When A Man Loves Yes Tessie D.W. Griffith
January 9, 1911 The Italian Barber Yes Alice D.W. Griffith
February 2, 1911 Three Sisters Yes Mary D.W. Griffith
March 6, 1911 A Decree of Destiny Yes Mary D.W. Griffith
August 17, 1911 Madame Rex Yes D.W. Griffith
Selig (1911)
In a 1913 interview Pickford claimed to have written two screenplays for the Selig Polyscope Company. Neither film is known to survive.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
March 3, 1911 The Medallion Yes (unknown) Lost
July 31, 1911 Caught in the Act Yes (unknown) Lost
IMP (1911–1912)
In December 1910 Carl Laemmle signed Pickford to his Independent Motion Picture Company (IMP). All of her IMP titles are one-reelers. The names of Pickford's characters are given if known. Only 13 of Pickford's 39 IMP films are known to survive complete, while fragments of two others exist.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
January 9, 1911 Their First Misunderstanding Yes Yes Mae Darcy Thomas Ince Extant[25]
January 23, 1911 The Dream Yes Yes The Wife Thomas Ince
George Loane Tucker preserved; Library of Congress
January 30, 1911 Maid or Man Yes Jimmie's sister Thomas Ince
February 9, 1911 The Mirror Yes Dorothy Thomas Ince
February 9, 1911 When The Cat's Away Yes Dorothy, the wife Thomas Ince
February 13, 1911 Her Darkest Hour Yes Ruth Thomas Ince Lost
February 16, 1911 The Convert Yes Agnes Boyd Thomas Ince Lost
February 23, 1911 Artful Kate Yes Artful Kate Stanley Thomas Ince preserved; Library of Congress
February 27, 1911 A Manly Man Yes Walk-on Thomas Ince
March 4, 1911 Pictureland Yes Unknown role Thomas H. Ince Rediscovered July 2015[26]
March 6, 1911 Tracked Yes Unknown role Thomas Ince Lost
March 9, 1911 The Message in the Bottle Yes Walk-on Thomas Ince Lost
March 13, 1911 The Secret of the Palm Yes Unknown role Thomas Ince Lost
March 16, 1911 The Fisher-Maid Yes Paula, the Fisher-Maid Thomas Ince Lost
March 20, 1911 In Old Madrid Yes Walk-on Thomas Ince
March 27, 1911 Sweet Memories Yes Polly Biblett Thomas Ince preserved at the Library of Congress
April 17, 1911 The Stampede Yes Nello, the Bandit's Daughter Thomas Ince Lost
April 24, 1911 While There Is Hope, There Is Life Yes Unknown role Thomas Ince Lost
May 1, 1911 Second Sight Yes Gertrude Edgar Thomas Ince Lost
May 8, 1911 The Fair Dentist Yes Edith Morton Thomas Ince Lost
May 11, 1911 For Her Brother's Sake Yes Madge Spotwood Thomas Ince Lost
May 15, 1911 The Master and the Man Yes Elsie Graham Thomas Ince Lost
May 18, 1911 The Lighthouse Keeper Yes Polly Berry, the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter Thomas Ince
June 8, 1911 Back to the Soil Yes Sadie Allen Thomas Ince Lost
July 3, 1911 In the Sultan's Garden Yes Haidee Thomas Ince
July 6, 1911 For the Queen's Honor Yes Princess Gilda Thomas Ince Lost
July 10, 1911 A Gasoline Engagement Yes Flora Powell Thomas Ince Lost
July 13, 1911 At a Quarter of Two Yes Mrs. Warren Thomas Ince Fragment survives
July 24, 1911 Science Yes Mrs. Crawford Thomas Ince Lost
July 31, 1911 The Skating Bug Yes The Girl Thomas Ince Lost
August 13, 1911 The Call of the Song Yes Amy Gordon Thomas Ince Lost
August 24, 1911 As a Boy Dreams Yes The Girl Thomas Ince
August 31, 1911 The Toss of a Coin Yes Alice Barton, the Farmer's Daughter Thomas Ince Lost
September 29, 1911 'Tween Two Loves Yes Grace Thomas Ince
October 2, 1911 The Rose's Story Yes Unknown role Thomas Ince Lost
October 9, 1911 The Sentinel Asleep (fr) Yes Unknown role Thomas Ince Lost
October 12, 1911 The Better Way Yes Lilian Garvey, a Salvation Army Lass Thomas Ince Lost
October 30, 1911 His Dress Shirt Yes Mrs. Kirby Thomas Ince Lost
December 28, 1911 The Portrait Yes Little Vera, the Model
1911 (exact date unknown) How Mary Fixed It Yes Mary
March 11, 1912 A Timely Repentance Yes Heroine of the Movie Within the Movie, The Wife’s Desertion Thomas Ince Fragment survives
Majestic (1911–1912)
After leaving IMP, Pickford signed with Harry H. Aiken's Majestic Film Company. During her brief time with this studio she made five one-reelers. Only one of these films is known to survive.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
November 25, 1911 The Courting of Mary Yes Mary George Loane Tucker Lost
December 3, 1911 Love Heeds Not the Showers Yes Unknown role Owen Moore Lost
December 17, 1911 Little Red Riding Hood Yes Little Red Riding Hood Owen Moore
December 31, 1911 The Caddy's Dream Yes Unknown role Owen Moore Lost
February 9, 1912 Honor Thy Father Yes Mary Fuller Owen Moore Lost
Biograph (1912–1913)
Pickford returned to the Biography Company in January 1912, where she remained until the end of the year. Except where noted all 26 films from this period are one-reelers.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
February 15, 1912 The Mender of Nets Yes The Net-Mender D.W. Griffith
March 11, 1912 A Timely Repentance Yes The Movie Heroine D.W. Griffith
March 14, 1912 Iola's Promise Yes Iola D.W. Griffith
April 8, 1912 Fate's Interception Yes The Mexican Girl D.W. Griffith
April 15, 1912 The Female of the Species Yes The Miner's Wife's Sister D.W. Griffith
April 18, 1912 Just Like a Woman Yes The Young Woman D.W. Griffith
April 22, 1912 Won By a Fish Yes The Woman Mack Sennett[14]
May 6, 1912 The Old Actor Yes The Old Actor's Daughter D.W. Griffith
May 9, 1912 A Lodging for the Night Yes The Mexican Girl D.W. Griffith
May 27, 1912 A Beast at Bay Yes The Young Woman D.W. Griffith
June 6, 1912 Home Folks Yes The Young Woman D.W. Griffith
June 17, 1912 Lena and the Geese Yes Yes Lena D.W. Griffith
June 27, 1912 The School Teacher and the Waif Yes Nora, the Waif D.W. Griffith
July 8, 1912 An Indian Summer Yes The Widow's Daughter D.W. Griffith
August 1, 1912 The Narrow Road Yes Mrs. Jim Holcomb D.W. Griffith
August 12, 1912 The Inner Circle Yes The Rich Italian's Daughter D.W. Griffith
August 19, 1912 With the Enemy's Help Yes Faro Kate Wilfred Lucas
August 29, 1912 A Pueblo Legend Yes The Indian Girl D.W. Griffith Two reels
September 23, 1912 Friends Yes Dora (the orphan) D.W. Griffith
September 30, 1912 So Near, yet So Far Yes The Young Woman D.W. Griffith
October 3, 1912 A Feud in the Kentucky Hills Yes The Daughter D.W. Griffith
October 21, 1912 The One She Loved Yes The Wife D.W. Griffith
November 14, 1912 My Baby Yes The Wife D.W. Griffith
November 21, 1912 The Informer Yes The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart D.W. Griffith
December 6, 1912 The New York Hat Yes Miss Mollie Goodhue (the girl) D.W. Griffith The last film that Pickford made for Biograph
March 15, 1913 The Unwelcome Guest Yes The Slavey D.W. Griffith
Features
State rights (1913–1914)
After leaving Biograph at the end of 1912, Pickford returned to stage acting in the Broadway production of David Belasco's play A Good Little Devil. In May 1913 she resumed acting in motion pictures when she signed with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company. The first five features she made for Zukor were released in the United States on a state rights basis, where regional organizations in each state handled the distribution of each film.[29] Only one of these films is known to survive complete.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
September 10, 1913 In the Bishop's Carriage Yes Nance Olden Edwin S. Porter Lost
November 10, 1913 Caprice Yes Mercy Baxter J. Searle Dawley Lost
February 10, 1914 Hearts Adrift Yes Nina Edwin S. Porter Lost
March 1, 1914 A Good Little Devil Yes Juliet Edwin S. Porter incomplete; One reel survives
March 30, 1914 Tess of the Storm Country Yes Tessibel Skinner Edwin S. Porter
Paramount (1914–1916)
In 1914 Paramount Pictures began handling the release of Zukor's Famous Players Film Company. Pickford made 17 features prior to beginning with Artcraft. Ten of these films survive complete while six are lost and one survives incomplete.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
July 1, 1914 The Eagle's Mate Yes Anemone Breckenridge James Kirkwood
August 26, 1914 Behind the Scenes Yes Dolly Lane James Kirkwood
September 21, 1914 Such a Little Queen Yes Queen Anna Victoria Hugh Ford Lost
December 28, 1914 Cinderella Yes Cinderella James Kirkwood
February 1, 1915 Mistress Nell Yes Mistress Nell James Kirkwood
May 10, 1915 Fanchon the Cricket Yes Fanchon, the cricket James Kirkwood Survives incomplete; 3½ of 5 reels survive
June 7, 1915 The Dawn of a Tomorrow Yes Glad James Kirkwood
July 1, 1915 Little Pal Yes "Little Pal" James Kirkwood
August 2, 1915 Rags Yes Rags / Alice McCloud James Kirkwood
September 6, 1915 Esmerelda Yes Esmerelda Rogers James Kirkwood Lost
October 7, 1915 A Girl of Yesterday Yes Yes Jane Stuart Allan Dwan Lost
November 8, 1915 Madame Butterfly Yes Cho-Cho-San Sidney Olcott
Unreleased The Foundling Yes Molly O Allan Dwan Lost; negative destroyed in a studio fire.[30]
January 2, 1916 The Foundling Yes Molly O John B. O'Brien
March 2, 1916 Poor Little Peppina Yes Peppina Sidney Olcott
April 17, 1916 The Eternal Grind Yes Louise John B. O'Brien
July 31, 1916 Hulda from Holland Yes Hulda John B. O'Brien
Artcraft (1916–1918)
Pickford signed a new contract with Adolph Zukor in June 1916. Among the agreements in the contract was that she would now be producing her own films and they would be distributed through a special division of Paramount Pictures called Artcraft. Pickford made 13 films for Artcraft of which 11 survive complete.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
November 2, 1916 Less Than the Dust Yes Yes Radha John Emerson
January 8, 1917 The Pride of the Clan Yes Yes Marget MacTavish Maurice Tourneur
March 5, 1917 The Poor Little Rich Girl Yes Yes Gwendolyn Maurice Tourneur
May 14, 1917 A Romance of the Redwoods Yes Yes Jenny Lawrence Cecil B. DeMille
July 2, 1917 The Little American Yes Yes Angela Moore Cecil B. DeMille
September 3, 1917 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Yes Yes Rebecca Randall Marshall Neilan
November 12, 1917 The Little Princess Yes Yes Sara Crewe Marshall Neilan
January 21, 1918 Stella Maris Yes Yes Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake Marshall Neilan
March 10, 1918 Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley Yes Yes Amarilly Jenkins Marshall Neilan
May 12, 1918 M'Liss Yes Yes Melissa "M'liss" Smith Marshall Neilan
June 23, 1918 How Could You, Jean? Yes Yes Jean Mackaye William Desmond Taylor Lost
September 15, 1918 Johanna Enlists Yes Yes Johanna Renssaller William Desmond Taylor
April 21, 1919 Captain Kidd, Jr. Yes Yes Mary MacTavish William Desmond Taylor Incomplete print survives
War propaganda (1917–1918)
During World War I Pickford appeared in four short propaganda films.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
October 1917 All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan Yes Herself Marshall Neilan
October 5, 1918 100% American Yes Mayme Arthur Rosson Released in Canada under the title 100% Canadian.
November 1, 1918 United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive Yes Herself Frank Lloyd
November 1918 Canadian Victory Loan Drive Yes Herself
First National (1918–1920)
In November 1918 Pickford ended her contractual obligations with Adolph Zukor and Paramount. She then signed a three-picture deal with First National to distribute her productions.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
May 12, 1919 Daddy-Long-Legs Yes Yes Yes Jerusha "Judy" Abbott Marshall Neilan
September 1, 1919 The Hoodlum Yes Yes Amy Burke Sidney Franklin
December 1, 1919 Heart o' the Hills Yes Yes Mavis Hawn Sidney Franklin
United Artists (silent films, 1920–1927)
In 1919 Pickford co-founded United Artists with Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Douglas Fairbanks. Pickford starred in 11 silent films for United Artists release and co-produced three film starring her brother, Jack Pickford, and one with their sister, Lottie Pickford. Mary Pickford also made unbilled cameo appearances in six other films during this time.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
January 18, 1920 Pollyanna Yes Yes Pollyanna Whittier Paul Powell A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
June 27, 1920 Suds Yes Yes Amanda Afflick John Francis Dillon A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
January 9, 1921 The Love Light Yes Yes Angela Carlotti Frances Marion A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
March 6, 1921 The Nut Yes Party Guest (unbilled cameo) J. Theodore Reed A Douglas Fairbanks Production
Released by United Artists
May 17, 1921 Through the Back Door Yes Yes Jeanne Alfred E. Green
Jack Pickford A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
August 17, 1921 They Shall Pay Yes Martin Justice A Playgoer Picture
Released by Associated Exhibitors
Starring Lottie Pickford
September 16, 1921 Little Lord Fauntleroy Yes Yes Cedric Errol / Widow Errol Alfred E. Green
Jack Pickford A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
November 12, 1922 Tess of the Storm Country Yes Yes Tessibel "Tess" Skinner John S. Robertson A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
January 23, 1923 Garrison's Finish Yes Yes Arthur Rossen A Jack Pickford Production
Released by Allied Producers and Distributors
August 19, 1923 Hollywood Yes Herself (unbilled cameo) James Cruze A Paramount Picture;
Lost
September 3, 1923 Rosita Yes Yes Rosita, a street singer Ernst Lubitsch A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
March 15, 1924 The Hill Billy Yes George W. Hill Jack Pickford–Allied Producers and Distributors
May 25, 1924 Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Yes Yes Dorothy Vernon Marshall Neilan A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
March 29, 1925 Waking Up the Town Yes James Cruze A Jack Pickford Production
Released by Allied Producers and Distributors
September 18, 1925 Little Annie Rooney Yes Yes Yes Annabelle "Little Annie" Rooney William Beaudine A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
December 30, 1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Yes Spectator at the Circus Maximus (unbilled cameo) Fred Niblo A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production
March 8, 1926 The Black Pirate Yes Billie Dove's kissing stand-in (unbilled cameo) Albert Parker An Elton Corporation Production
Released by United Artists
Filmed in Technicolor
September 26, 1926 Sparrows Yes Yes Molly William Beaudine A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
September 9, 1927 A Kiss From Mary Pickford ("Поцелуй Мэри Пикфорд") Yes Herself (cameo) Sergei Komarov A Mezhrabpom–Rus & Sovkino Production
November 4, 1927 The Gaucho Yes Virgin Mary (unbilled cameo) F. Richard Jones An Elton Corporation Production
Released by United Artists
November 13, 1927 My Best Girl Yes Yes Maggie Johnson Sam Taylor A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
United Artists (sound films, 1929–1949)
Pickford starred in four sound films (excluding the uncompleted Forever Yours). After Secrets, her final film as an actress, she continued working as a producer, including two films in collaboration with Jesse L. Lasky. In 1945, she and her third husband, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, co-founded Comet Productions to produce "B" pictures for United Artists. Her role as producer in these later films was generally uncredited.
Release date Title Credited as Director Notes
Writer Producer Actress Role
March 30, 1929 Coquette Yes Yes Norma Besant Sam Taylor A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
Academy Award for Best Actress
October 26, 1929 The Taming of the Shrew Yes Yes Katherine Sam Taylor A Mary Pickford and Elton Corporation Production
Released by United Artists
Not released (filmed in 1930) Forever Yours Yes Yes Mary Carlton / Mary Marlow Marshall Neilan
A Mary Pickford Production
Not completed; 3½ minutes survive
March 14, 1931 Kiki Yes Kiki Sam Taylor An Art Cinema Production
Released by United Artists
March 16, 1933 Secrets Yes Yes Mary Carlton / Mary Marlow Frank Borzage A Mary Pickford Production
Released by United Artists
May 13, 1936 One Rainy Afternoon Yes Rowland V. Lee A Mary Pickford–Jesse Lasky Production
Released by United Artists
October 2, 1936 The Gay Desperado Yes Rouben Mamoulian A Mary Pickford–Jesse Lasky Production
Released by United Artists
October 20, 1946 Little Iodine Yes Reginald Le Borg A Comet Production
Released by United Artists
December 13, 1946 Susie Steps Out Yes Reginald Le Borg A Comet Production
Released by United Artists
May 9, 1947 The Adventures of Don Coyote Yes Reginald Le Borg A Comet Production
Released by United Artists
Filmed in Cinecolor
June 21, 1947 Stork Bites Man Yes Cy Endfield A Comet Production
Released by United Artists
February 18, 1948 Sleep, My Love Yes Douglas Sirk A Triangle Production
Released by United Artists
November 19, 1948 White Cradle Inn Yes Harold French Peak Films–United Artists
October 12, 1949 Love Happy Yes David Miller An Allied Alliance Production
Released by United Artists
Cameos and erroneous credits
Cameo appearances in short films
Pickford made cameo appearances as herself in the following short films:
Year Title Ref
1929 Holiday in Mexico
1933 Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934 Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
1941 Picture People No. 3: Hobbies of the Stars
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