Biography: life and films
Mary Pickford was a Canadian actress, producer and screenwriter whose birth name was Gladys Marie Smith. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 8th April 1892 and died in Santa Monica, California, USA on 29th May 1979, aged 87.Her best films as an actor include James Kirkwood's Rags (1915), Marshall Neilan's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), Stella Maris (1918), Sam Taylor's comedy My Best Girl (1927) and John Edwards's America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story (1978).
Mary Pickford appeared in 120 films, scripted 6 films and directed 1 film.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Thomas H. Ince (26 films), James Kirkwood (10), D.W. Griffith (10), (9), Marshall Neilan (8), Frank Powell (8), Sam Taylor (4), John B. O'Brien (4), William Desmond Taylor (3), Edwin S. Porter (3), William H. Clifford (2), William Beaudine (2), Sidney Olcott (2), Maurice Tourneur (2), J. Searle Dawley (2), Cecil B. DeMille (2), Arthur Rosson (2) and Alfred E. Green (2).
Her most frequent genres include: drama (70 films), comedy (23), romance (11), comedy-drama (9), comedy-romance (6), Western (6), history (4), Documentary (4) and Fantasy (3).
Our average rating for Mary Pickford over all films is: 2.5
Filmography
Key: a = actor; w = writer; d = director
The Day After (1909) [w]
A Gold Necklace (1910) [a]
His Last Dollar (1910) [a]
Never Again (1910) [a]
A Pueblo Romance (1912) [a]
Caprice (1913) [a]
In the Bishop's Carriage (1913) [a]
A Good Little Devil (1914) [a]
Behind the Scenes (1914) [a]
Cinderella (1914) [a]
Such a Little Queen (1914) [a]
Tess of the Storm Country (1914) [a]
The Eagle's Mate (1914) [a]
A Girl of Yesterday (1915) [a,w]
Fanchon, the Cricket (1915) [a]
Little Pal (1915) [a]
Madame Butterfly (1915) [a]
Mistress Nell (1915) [a]
Rags (1915) [a,w]
The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915) [a]
The Foundling (1915) [a]
Hulda from Holland (1916) [a]
Less Than the Dust (1916) [a]
Poor Little Peppina (1916) [a]
The Eternal Grind (1916) [a]
A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) [a]
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) [a]
The Little American (1917) [a]
The Little Princess (1917) [a]
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) [a]
The Pride of the Clan (1917) [a]
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918) [a]
How Could You, Jean? (1918) [a]
Johanna Enlists (1918) [a]
M'Liss (1918) [a]
Stella Maris (1918) [a]
Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919) [a]
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) [a]
Heart o' the Hills (1919) [a]
The Hoodlum (1919) [a]
Pollyanna (1920) [a]
Suds (1920) [a]
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921) [a]
The Love Light (1921) [a]
Through the Back Door (1921) [a]
Tess of the Storm Country (1922) [a]
Garrison's Finish (1923) [w]
Rosita (1923) [a]
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924) [a,d]
Little Annie Rooney (1925) [a]
Sparrows (1926) [a]
The Black Pirate (1926) [a]
My Best Girl (1927) [a]
The Gaucho (1927) [a]
Coquette (1929) [a]
The Taming of the Shrew (1929) [a]
Forever Yours (1930) [a]
Kiki (1931) [a]
Secrets (1933) [a]
30 Years of Fun (1963) [a]
Anniversary (1963) [a]
The Funniest Man in the World (1967) [a]
America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story (1978) [a]
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