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Mary Pickford

Highest Rated: 100% Tess of the Storm Country (1922)

Lowest Rated: 44% Coquette (1929)

Birthday: Apr 8, 1892

Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Long before Charlie Chaplin ever met Mack Sennett, silent film actress Mary Pickford had become the first superstar of a burgeoning movie business with her collaboration with director D.W. Griffith. Having broken into movies in 1909, Pickford became such as a fast-rising star, that by 1916 she was making an unprecedented $10,000 a week and a percentage of the profits. She rode the wave to stardom as the curly blonde, elfin moppet in "Tess of the Storm Country" (1914), "Madame Butterfly" (1915), "The Poor Little Rich Girl" (1917) and "The Little American" (1917). She had big hits with "Stella Maris" (1918), "Daddy Long Legs" (1919) and "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (1921). In 1919, Pickford - along with Charlie Chapin, D.W. Griffith and future husband Douglas Fairbanks - formed their own studio, United Artists, in an effort to secure more artistic control over their films. Meanwhile, she developed a more mature persona with director Ernst Lubitsch and eventually segued into talkies, winning an Oscar for Best Actress - and kicking up a bit of controversy - for her performance in "Coquette" (1929). But she soon left acting altogether, making her last film, "Secrets" (1933), before settling into a strictly producer role. Living in Pickfair, her famous Beverly Hills estate, in near seclusion for the rest of her life, Pickford nonetheless basked in her legacy as a pioneering actress whose girl-next-door charm made her Hollywood's first true movie star.

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Highest rated movies

100% 86% Tess of the Storm Country
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91% 90% The Gaucho
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90% 78% Stella Maris
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80% Little Iodine
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60% 60% Little Annie Rooney
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44% 26% Coquette
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74% The Poor Little Rich Girl
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Love Among the Roses
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The Sealed Room
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The Test
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 34% Love Happy Producer - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet White Cradle Inn Producer - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Adventures of Don Coyote Executive Producer - 1947
80% No Score Yet Little Iodine Producer - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gaslight Follies Unknown (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet One Rainy Afternoon Producer - 1936
No Score Yet 43% Secrets Mary Marlowe/Mary Carlton (Character),
Executive Producer
- 1933
No Score Yet 44% The Taming of the Shrew Katherine (Character) - 1929
44% 26% Coquette Norma Besant (Character),
Producer
- 1929
No Score Yet 89% My Best Girl Maggie Johnson (Character),
Producer
- 1927
91% 90% The Gaucho Virgin Mary (uncredited) (Character) - 1927
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Kiss From Mary Pickford Unknown (Character) - 1927
No Score Yet 88% Sparrows Molly (Character),
Producer
- 1926
60% 60% Little Annie Rooney Annabelle "Little Annie" Rooney (Character),
Screenwriter
- 1925
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rosita Rosita, a street singer (Character),
Producer
- 1923
100% 86% Tess of the Storm Country Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner (Character),
Producer
- 1922
No Score Yet 44% Through the Back Door Jeanne (Character) - 1921
No Score Yet 56% Little Lord Fauntleroy Cedric Errol/Widow Errol (Character),
Producer
- 1921
No Score Yet 46% The Love Light Angela Carlotti (Character),
Producer
- 1921
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Nut Unknown (Character) - 1921
No Score Yet 44% Pollyanna Pollyanna Whittier (Character) - 1920
No Score Yet 56% Suds Unknown (Character) - 1920
No Score Yet 65% Daddy Long Legs Jerusha "Judy" Abbott (Character),
Producer
- 1919
No Score Yet 50% The Hoodlum Amy Burke (Character),
Executive Producer
- 1919
No Score Yet 40% Heart o' the Hills Mavis Hawn (Character),
Executive Producer
- 1919
No Score Yet No Score Yet M'Liss Melissa "M'liss" Smith (Character) - 1918
90% 78% Stella Maris Miss Stella Maris/Unity Blake (Character) - 1918
No Score Yet No Score Yet Johanna Enlists Johanna Renssaller (Character) - 1918
No Score Yet 44% Amarilly of Clothesline Alley Unknown (Character) - 1918
No Score Yet 58% The Little American Angela Moore (Character) - 1917
No Score Yet 0% A Romance of the Redwoods Jenny Lawrence (Character) - 1917
No Score Yet 46% Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Rebecca Randall (Character) - 1917
No Score Yet 74% The Poor Little Rich Girl Gwendolyn (Character) - 1917
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Pride of the Clan Marget MacTavish (Character) - 1917
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hulda From Holland Hulda (Character) - 1916
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fanchon the Cricket Fanchon (Character) - 1915
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rags Rags / Alice McCloud (Character),
Screenwriter
- 1915
No Score Yet No Score Yet Behind the Scenes Dolly Lane (Character) - 1914
No Score Yet 31% Cinderella Cinderella (Character) - 1914
No Score Yet No Score Yet The New York Hat Miss Mollie Goodhue (Character) - 1912
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Lodging for the Night The Mexican Girl (Character) - 1912
No Score Yet No Score Yet Friends Dora - the Orphan (Character) - 1912
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Female of the Species The Miner's Wife's Sister (Character) - 1912
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Beast at Bay The Young Woman (Character) - 1912
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Mender of Nets The Little Net-Mender (Character) - 1912
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Manly Man Elinor Williams (Character) - 1911
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dream Nell Herbert (Character) - 1911
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Unchanging Sea The Daughter as an Adult (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Newlyweds Unknown (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love Among the Roses The Lacemaker (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Romance of the Western Hills Unknown (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Twisted Trail Molly Hendricks (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wilful Peggy Peggy (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet Examination Day at School Unknown (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet As It Is in Life George Forrester's Daughter - as an Adult (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet In the Season of Buds Mabel (Character),
Screenwriter
- 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Plain Song Edith (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Smoker George's Wife (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ramona Ramona (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sorrows of the Unfaithful Mary (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Rich Revenge Jennie (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet Simple Charity Miss Wilkins (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Song of the Wildwood Flute Dove Eyes (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet An Arcadian Maid Priscilla, the Country Girl (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Thread of Destiny Myrtle (Character) - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sealed Room Unknown (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet To Save Her Soul Unknown (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet In Old Kentucky Unknown (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Renunciation Kittie Ryan (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Test Bessie (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet Getting Even Miss Lucy (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two Memories Marion's Sister (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Children's Friend Unknown (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Trick That Failed Nellie Burt (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Little Darling Unknown (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Violin Maker of Cremona Giannina - Taddeo's Daughter (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet His Lost Love Mary (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Little Teacher The Little Teacher (Character),
Writer
- 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Necklace The Maid (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Broken Locket Ruth King (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Son's Return Mary Clark (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lonely Villa Unknown (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Midnight Adventure Eleanor (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Light That Came Daisy (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Way of Man Winnie - Mabel's Cousin (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Indian Runner's Romance Blue Cloud's Wife (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's Your Hurry? Mary (Character) - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove Self -