Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1894 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian actress resident in the U.S., and also producer, screenwriter and film studio founder, who was a pioneer in the US film industry with a Hollywood career that spanned five decades. Pickford alongside her future husband, actor-producer Douglas Fairbanks, founded Pickford–Fairbanks Studios and United Artists, and was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Pickford is considered to be one of the most recognisable women in history. Known as "America's Sweetheart" during the silent film era, she is named on the list of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars as the 24th-top female star from the Classical Hollywood Cinema era and the "girl with the curls." Pickford was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting. She 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 with having defined the ingénue type in cinema. She was awarded the second Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound film role in Coquette (1929). By the late 1920s, Pickford's career went into decline. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 1976 in consideration of her contributions to American cinema.
Known For
| Birth Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
|---|---|
| Born | 1892-04-07 |
| Died | 1979-05-29 |
Movies
2023
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2017
The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Herself (archive footage)
2016
Birth of the Tramp
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
2010
Smash His Camera
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2007
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler
as Self (archive footage)
2005
Mary Pickford
as Self/Archival Footage
2005
Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush'
as Self (archive footage)
2003
The Tramp and the Dictator
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
as Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Self / Various roles (archive footage)
1998
The Casting Couch
as (archive footage)
1995
What Do Those Old Films Mean?
as Herself(archive footage)
1985
Hollywood’s Children
as Self (archive footage)
1982
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
1961
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
1953
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
as Herself
1942
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self (archive footage)
1940
Hollywood Hobbies
as Herself (uncredited)
1939
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
as Self
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
Secrets
as Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
as Self (uncredited)
1932
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
1931
Kiki
as Kiki
1931
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
as Mary Pickford
1930
The Taming of the Shrew
as Caterina
1929
Coquette
as Norma Besant
1929
The Gaucho
as The Virgin Mary
1927
One From Many
as Herself (archive footage)
1927
My Best Girl
as Maggie Johnson
1927
A Kiss from Mary Pickford
as Self (archive footage)
1927
Sparrows
as Molly
1926
The Black Pirate
as Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1926
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
Little Annie Rooney
as Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney
1925
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
as Dorothy Vernon
1924
Rosita
as Rosita
1923
Hollywood
as Mary Pickford
1923
Tess of the Storm Country
as Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner
1922
From Farm to Fame
as Mary Pickford
1922
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
1921
Through The Back Door
as Jeanne
1921
The Love Light
as Angela Carlotti
1921
Suds
as Amanda Afflick
1920
Pollyanna
as Pollyanna Whittier
1920
Heart o' the Hills
as Mavis Hawn
1919
The Hoodlum
as Amy Burke
1919
Daddy-Long-Legs
as Judy Abbott
1919
Captain Kidd, Jr.
as Mary MacTavish
1919
100% American
as Mayme
1918
Johanna Enlists
as Johanna Renssaller
1918
1918
How Could You, Jean?
as Jean Mackaye
1918
M'Liss
as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
1918
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
as Amarilly Jenkins
1918
Stella Maris
as Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
1918
A Little Princess
as Sara Crewe
1917
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Rebecca Randall
1917
The Little American
as Angela Moore
1917
A Romance of the Redwoods
as Jenny Lawrence
1917
The Poor Little Rich Girl
as Gwen
1917
The Pride of the Clan
as Marget MacTavish
1917
Less Than the Dust
as Radha
1916
Hulda from Holland
as Hulda
1916
The Eternal Grind
as Louise
1916
Poor Little Peppina
as Peppina
1916
The Foundling
as Molly O
1916
Madame Butterfly
as Cho-Cho-San
1915
A Girl of Yesterday
as Jane Stuart
1915
Esmeralda
as Esmeralda Rogers
1915
Rags
as Rags / Alice McCloud
1915
The Foundling
as Molly O
1915
Little Pal
as 'Little Pal'
1915
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
as Glad
1915
Fanchon, the Cricket
as Fanchon, the Cricket
1915
Mistress Nell
as Nell Gwyn
1915
Cinderella
as Cinderella
1914
Behind the Scenes
as Dolly Lane
1914
Such a Little Queen
as Queen Anna Victoria
1914
The Eagle's Mate
as Anemone Breckenridge
1914
Tess of the Storm Country
as Tessibel Skinner
1914
A Good Little Devil
as Juliet
1914
Hearts Adrift
as Nina
1914
Caprice
as Mercy Baxter
1913
In the Bishop's Carriage
as Nance Olden
1913
The Unwelcome Guest
as Jessie - the Slavey
1913
The New York Hat
as Mary Harding, the Daughter
1912
The Informer
as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
1912
My Baby
as The Wife
1912
The One She Loved
as The Wife
1912
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
as The Daughter
1912
So Near, Yet So Far
as The Young Woman
1912
Friends
as Dora - the Orphan
1912
A Pueblo Legend
as The Indian Girl
1912
With the Enemy's Help
as Faro Kate
1912
The Inner Circle
as The Rich Italian's Daughter
1912
The Narrow Road
as Mrs. Jim Holcomb
1912
An Indian Summer
as The Widow's Daughter
1912
The School Teacher and the Waif
as Nora, the Waif
1912
Lena and the Geese
as Lena
1912
Home Folks
as The Young Woman
1912
A Beast at Bay
as The Young Woman
1912
A Lodging for the Night
as The Mexican Girl
1912
The Old Actor
as The Old Actor's Daughter
1912
Won by a Fish
as The Woman
1912
Just Like a Woman
as The Young Woman
1912
The Female of the Species
as The Miner's Wife's Sister
1912
Fate's Interception
as The Mexican Girl
1912
Iola's Promise
as Iola
1912
A Timely Repentance
as Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
1912
The Mender of Nets
as The Little Net-Mender
1912
Honor Thy Father
as Mary Fuller
1912
How Mary Fixed it
as Mary
1911
The Caddy's Dream
as Miss Kelsomine
1911
The Portrait
as Little Vera - the Model
1911
Little Red Riding Hood
as Little Red Riding Hood
1911
Love Heeds Not Showers
as Mary
1911
The Courting of Mary
as Mary
1911
From the Bottom of the Sea
as Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)
1911
His Dress Shirt
as Mrs. Kirby
1911
The Better Way
as Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
1911
The Sentinel Asleep
as Unknown Role
1911
The Rose's Story
as Unknown Role
1911
'Tween Two Loves
as Grace
1911
The Toss of a Coin
as Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
1911
The Call of the Song
as Amy Gordon
1911
1911
The Skating Bug
as The Girl
1911
Science
as Mrs. Crawford
1911
At a Quarter of Two
as Mrs Warren
1911
A Gasoline Engagement
as Flora Powell
1911
For the Queen's Honor
as Princess Gilda
1911
In the Sultan's Garden
as Haidee
1911
In the Sultan's Garden
as Hadee
1911
Behind the Stockade
as Florence Williams
1911
Back to the Soil
as Sadie Allen
1911
The Lighthouse Keeper
as Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1911
The Master and the Man
as Elsie Graham
1911
For Her Brother's Sake
as Madge Spotwood
1911
The Fair Dentist
as Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist
1911
The Temptress
as Lucille Allen
1911
Second Sight
as Gertrude Edgar
1911
While There is hope, There is Life
as Unknown Role
1911
The Stampede
as Nello
1911
Sweet Memories
as Polly Biblett
1911
1911
The Fisher-Maid
as Paula, The Fishing-Maid
1911
The Secret of the Palm
as Unknown Role
1911
The Message in the Bottle
as Louise Spencer
1911
Tracked
as Unknown Role
1911
A Decree of Destiny
as Mary
1911
A Manly Man
as Lola
1911
Artful Kate
as Artful Kate Stanley
1911
The Convert
as Agnes Boyd
1911
Her Darkest Hour
as Ruth
1911
When the Cat's Away
as Dorothy, The Wife
1911
The Mirror
as Dorothy
1911
Three Sisters
as Mary
1911
Maid or Man
as Elsie Keene
1911
The Dream
as Nell Herbert
1911
Their First Misunderstanding
as Mae Darcy
1911
The Italian Barber
as Alice
1911
When a Man Loves
as Tessie
1911
White Roses
as Betty
1910
A Plain Song
as Edith
1910
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
as Dove Eyes
1910
1910
Simple Charity
as Miss Wilkins
1910
Waiter No. 5
as The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
1910
A Lucky Toothache
as Bessie
1910
A Lucky Toothache
as Mary
1910
A Gold Necklace
as Masie
1910
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
as Mabel
1910
Wilful Peggy
as Peggy
1910
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
as Mary
1910
When We Were in Our 'Teens
as Mary
1910
The Usurer
as Invalid Daughter
1910
An Arcadian Maid
as The Arcadian Maid
1910
The Call to Arms
as A Messenger
1910
What the Daisy Said
as Martha
1910
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
as Mabel Brown
1910
A Child's Impulse
as Grace
1910
May and December
as May
1910
Never Again
as The Girl
1910
A Victim of Jealousy
as The Wife's Friend
1910
In the Season of Buds
as Mabel
1910
Ramona
as Ramona
1910
The Two Brothers
as A Mexican
1910
Love Among the Roses
as The Lacemaker
1910
The Unchanging Sea
as The Daughter as an Adult
1910
A Rich Revenge
as Jennie
1910
1910
The Smoker
as George's Wife
1910
The Twisted Trail
as Molly Hendricks
1910
The Thread of Destiny
as Myrtle
1910
The Newlyweds
as Alice Vance
1910
The Newlyweds
as Mary Vance
1910
The Englishman and the Girl
as The Girl
1910
The Woman from Mellon's
as Mary Petersby
1910
All on Account of the Milk
as The Young Woman
1910
The Heart of an Outlaw
as The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult
1909
To Save Her Soul
as Agnes Hailey
1909
The Test
as Bessie
1909
Through the Breakers
as An Extra
1909
The Trick that Failed
as Nellie Burt
1909
The Mountaineer's Honor
as Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
1909
1909
A Midnight Adventure
as Eleanor
1909
1909
The Restoration
as Alice Ashford
1909
What's Your Hurry?
as Mary
1909
The Gibson Goddess
as Woman on Sidewalk
1909
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
as Second Couple
1909
In the Watches of the Night
as Girl at Henry Brainard's
1909
His Lost Love
as Mary
1909
The Little Teacher
as The Little Teacher
1909
Pippa Passes
as Girl in crowd
1909
The Awakening
as The Widow's Daughter
1909
In Old Kentucky
as Partygoer
1909
The Broken Locket
as Ruth King
1909
Getting Even
as Miss Lucy
1909
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
as Messenger's Sister
1909
The Sealed Room
as A Lady-in-Waiting
1909
The Little Darling
as Little Darling
1909
The Seventh Day
as The Maid
1909
Oh, Uncle!
as Bessie
1909
The Indian Runner's Romance
as Blue Cloud's Wife
1909
His Wife's Visitor
as Bessie Wright
1909
They Would Elope
as Bessie
1909
1909
The Slave
as A Slave Girl
1909
Sweet and Twenty
as Alice
1909
Tender Hearts
as Nellie
1909
The Renunciation
as Kittie Ryan
1909
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
as A Disguised Servant
1909
The Country Doctor
as Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
1909
The Necklace
as The Maid / In Pawnshop
1909
The Way of Man
as Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
1909
The Mexican Sweethearts
as The Señorita
1909
The Peachbasket Hat
as On street/In store
1909
The Faded Lilies
as At party
1909
Her First Biscuits
as Biscuit Victim
1909
The Son's Return
as Mary
1909
1909
The Violin Maker of Cremona
as Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
1909
His Duty
as A young woman in the street
1909
Two Memories
as Marion's Sister
1909
Movies
Love Happy
Executive Producer
1949
Sleep, My Love
Producer
1948
Stork Bites Man
Producer
1947
White Cradle Inn
Producer
1947
Little Iodine
Executive Producer
1946
The Gay Desperado
Producer
1936
One Rainy Afternoon
Producer
1936
Secrets
Executive Producer
1933
Coquette
Producer
1929
My Best Girl
Producer
1927
Sparrows
Producer
1926
Little Annie Rooney
Producer
1925
Little Annie Rooney
Writer
1925
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Producer
1924
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Director
1924
Rosita
Producer
1923
Garrison's Finish
Writer
1923
Tess of the Storm Country
Producer
1922
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Producer
1921
Through The Back Door
Producer
1921
The Love Light
Producer
1921
Suds
Producer
1920
Pollyanna
Producer
1920
The Hoodlum
Executive Producer
1919
Daddy-Long-Legs
Producer
1919
Johanna Enlists
Executive Producer
1918
How Could You, Jean?
Producer
1918
A Little Princess
Producer
1917
The Little American
Producer
1917
Less Than the Dust
Producer
1916
Poor Little Peppina
Producer
1916
Hearts Adrift
Writer
1914
Lena and the Geese
Screenplay
1912
Caught in the Act
Screenplay
1911
Madame Rex
Writer
1911
The Medallion
Screenplay
1911
The Day After
Writer
1909
The Awakening
Screenplay
1909
