Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford was a Canadian-American actress and film producer who became one of the first major movie stars, known as "America's Sweetheart" during the silent film era.

She co-founded United Artists in 1919 with Charlie Chaplin, D.W.

Griffith, and Douglas Fairbanks, who became her second husband.

Her name sometimes evokes the golden age of Hollywood or pioneering women in entertainment.

Opposites
silent film era persona and image

Mary Pickfordvamp

Alluring seductress

femme fatale · seductress

Hollywood business and power dynamics

Mary PickfordBuster Keaton

hired hand

career trajectory through sound era

Mary PickfordJoan Crawford

Greta Garbo · Marlene Dietrich · Bette Davis · Barbara Stanwyck

Family

Mary, maritime, pickpocket, marionette

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G