Mary Pickford - biography

“Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter.  What do people go to the theatre for?  An emotional exercise.  I am a servant of the people.  I have never forgotten that.”

“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.  You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“Supposing you have tried and failed again and again.  You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”

“One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man’s, privacy.”

“The past cannot be changed.  The future is yet in your power.”

“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”

“It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.”

Mary Pickford has appeared in the following films:
The Heart of an Outlaw (1909)
Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)
The Fascinating Mrs. Francis (1909)
The Deception (1909)
The Drive for a Life (1909)
Two Memories (1909)
His Duty (1909)
What Drink Did (1909)
The Violin Maker of Cremona (1909)
The Lonely Villa (1909)
The Son’s Return (1909)
Her First Biscuits (1909)
The Faded Lilies (1909)
The Peachbasket Hat (1909)
The Mexican Sweethearts (1909)
The Way of Man (1909)
The Necklace (1909)
The Country Doctor (1909)
The Cardinal’s Conspiracy (1909)
Tender Hearts (1909)
The Renunciation (1909)
Sweet and Twenty (1909)
The Slave (1909)
A Strange Meeting (1909)
They Would Elope (1909)
His Wife’s Visitor (1909)
The Indian Runner’s Romance (1909)
The Seventh Day (1909)
Oh, Uncle! (1909)
The Sealed Room (1909)
The Little Darling (1909)
The Hessian Renegades (1909)
Getting Even (1909)
The Children’s Friend (1909)
The Broken Locket (1909)
In Old Kentucky (1909)
Wanted, a Child (1909)
The Awakening (1909)
The Little Teacher (1909)
His Lost Love (1909)
In the Watches of the Night (1909)
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909)
What’s Your Hurry? (1909)
The Gibson Goddess (1909)
The Restoration (1909)
The Light That Came (1909)
A Sweet Revenge (1909)
A Midnight Adventure (1909)
The Mountaineer’s Honor (1909)
The Trick That Failed (1909)
The Test (1909)
To Save Her Soul (1909)
All on Account of the Milk (1910)
The Call (1910)
The Woman from Mellon’s (1910)
The Englishman and the Girl (1910)
The Newlyweds (1910)
The Thread of Destiny (1910)
The Twisted Trail (1910)
The Smoker (1910)
His Last Dollar (1910)
The Two Brothers (1910)
As It Is in Life (1910)
A Rich Revenge (1910)
A Romance of the Western Hills (1910)
The Kid (1910)
The Unchanging Sea (1910)
Love Among the Roses (1910)
An Affair of Hearts (1910)
Ramona (1910)
In the Season of Buds (1910)
A Victim of Jealousy (1910)
The Face at the Window (1910)
Never Again (1910)
May and December (1910)
A Child’s Impulse (1910)
Muggsy’s First Sweetheart (1910)
What the Daisy Said (1910)
A Flash of Light (1910)
Serious Sixteen (1910)
The Call to Arms (1910)
An Arcadian Maid (1910)
The Usurer (1910)
When We Were in Our Teens (1910)
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910)
Wilful Peggy (1910)
Muggsy Becomes a Hero (1910)
Little Angels of Luck (1910)
A Summer Tragedy (1910)
Examination Day at School (1910)
The Iconoclast (1910)
A Gold Necklace (1910)
That Chink at Golden Gulch (1910)
The Masher (1910)
A Lucky Toothache (1910)
Waiter No. 5 (1910)
Simple Charity (1910)
Sunshine Sue (1910)
The Song of the Wildwood Flute (1910)
A Plain Song (1910)
A Child’s Stratagem (1910)
White Roses (1910)
Little Nell’s Tobacco (1910)
Science (1911)
How Mary Fixed It (1911)
A Dog’s Tale (1911)
The Daddy’s Dream (1911)
When a Man Loves (1911)
Their First Misunderstanding (1911)
The Italian Barber (1911)
The Dream (1911)
Maid or Man (1911)
Three Sisters (1911)
At the Duke’s Command (1911)
When the Cat’s Away (1911)
The Mirror (1911)
Her Darkest Hour (1911)
The Convert (1911)
Pictureland (1911)
Artful Kate (1911)
A Manly Man (1911)
A Decree of Destiny (1911)
The Message in the Bottle (1911)
Conscience (1911)
The Fisher-Maid (1911)
In Old Madrid (1911)
Sweet Memories (1911)
The Stampede (1911)
As a Boy Dreams (1911)
Second Sight (1911)
The Temptress (1911)
The Fair Dentist (1911)
For Her Brother’s Sake (1911)
The Master and the Man (1911)
The Lighthouse Keeper (1911)
Back to the Soil (1911)
Behind the Stockade (1911)
In the Sultan’s Garden (1911)
For the Queen’s Honor (1911)
A Gasoline Engagement (1911)
At a Quarter of Two (1911)
The Skating Bug (1911)
The Call of the Song (1911)
The Toss of a Coin (1911)
By the House That Jack Built (1911)
’Tween Two Loves (1911)
The Sentinel Asleep (1911)
The Better Way (1911)
The Aggressor (1911)
His Dress Shirt (1911)
From the Bottom of the Sea (1911)
The Courting of Mary (1911)
Love Heeds Not Showers (1911)
Little Red Riding Hood (1911)
The Portrait (1911)
The Caddy’s Dream (1911)
Grannie (1912)
Honor Thy Father (1912)
The Mender of Nets (1912)
A Siren of Impulse (1912)
A Timely Repentance (1912)
Iola’s Promise (1912)
Fate’s Interception (1912)
The Female of the Species (1912)
Just Like a Woman (1912)
Won by a Fish (1912)
The Old Actor (1912)
A Lodging for the Night (1912)
A Beast at Bay (1912)
Home Folks (1912)
Lena and the Geese (1912)
The School Teacher and the Waif (1912)
An Indian Summer (1912)
The Narrow Road (1912)
A Child’s Remorse (1912)
The Inner Circle (1912)
With the Enemy’s Help (1912)
A Pueblo Romance (1912)
A Pueblo Legend (1912)
Friends (1912)
So Near, Yet So Far (1912)
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912)
The One She Loved (1912)
My Baby (1912)
The Informer (1912)
The New York Hat (1912)
The Unwelcome Guest (1913)
Fate (1913)
In the Bishop’s Carriage (1913)
Caprice (1913)
Hearts Adrift (1914)
A Good Little Devil (1914)
Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
The Eagle’s Mate (1914)
Such a Little Queen (1914)
Behind the Scenes (1914)
Cinderella (1914)
The Foundling (1915)
Broken Hearts (1915)
Mistress Nell (1915)
Fanchon, the Cricket (1915)
The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915)
Little Pal (1915)
Rags (1915)
Esmeralda (1915)
A Girl of Yesterday (1915)
Madame Butterfly (1915)
Poor Little Peppina (1916)
The Eternal Grind (1916)
Hulda from Holland (1916)
Less Than the Dust (1916)
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan (1917)
The Pride of the Clan (1917)
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917)
The Little American (1917)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
The Little Princess (1917)
Stella Maris (1918)
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
M’Liss (1918)
How Could You, Jean? (1918)
Johanna Enlists (1918)
One Hundred Percent American (1918)
Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919)
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
The Hoodlum (1919)
Heart o’ the Hills (1919)
Pollyanna (1920)
Suds (1920)
The Love Light (1921)
The Nut (1921)
Through the Back Door (1921)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
Rosita (1923)
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924)
Little Annie Rooney (1925)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
The Black Pirate (1926)
Sparrows (1926)
My Best Girl (1927)
The Gaucho (1927)
Coquette (1929)
The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
Forever Yours (1930)
Kiki (1931)
Secrets (1933)
Flicker Flashbacks No. 1, Series 5 (1947)
Anniversary (1963)


Mary Pickford contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
The Day After (1909)
Madame Rex (1911)