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.
Lucille Allen
The Temptress
A Lady-in-Waiting
The Sealed Room
Self (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
Sunshine Sue
(archive footage)
Yesterday and Today
Mary Pickford
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
Stella Maris
Judy Abbott
Daddy-Long-Legs
Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner
Tess of the Storm Country
Marget MacTavish
The Pride of the Clan
Molly
Sparrows
Maggie Johnson
My Best Girl
Cinderella
Cinderella
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Norma Besant
Coquette
Amanda Afflick
Suds
Gwen
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Mary Pickford
Hollywood
Jeanne
Through The Back Door
Pollyanna Whittier
Pollyanna
The Old Actor's Daughter
The Old Actor
Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney
Little Annie Rooney
Amy Burke
The Hoodlum
Mary Harding, the Daughter
The New York Hat
Mary Pickford
From Farm to Fame
Kiki
Kiki
Sara Crewe
A Little Princess
Juliet
A Good Little Devil
Amarilly Jenkins
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
A Sweet Revenge
Little Darling
The Little Darling
The Young Woman
So Near, Yet So Far
The Little Net-Mender
The Mender of Nets
Peggy
Wilful Peggy
Kittie Ryan
The Renunciation
The Young Woman
A Beast at Bay
Dora - the Orphan
Friends
Mrs. Jim Holcomb
The Narrow Road
Nora, the Waif
The School Teacher and the Waif
Dorothy Vernon
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Self/Archival Footage
Mary Pickford
Tessibel Skinner
Tess of the Storm Country
Cho-Cho-San
Madame Butterfly
Jenny Lawrence
A Romance of the Redwoods
Johanna Renssaller
Johanna Enlists
Mavis Hawn
Heart o' the Hills
Mayme
100% American
Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
M'Liss
Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Angela Carlotti
The Love Light
The Daughter as an Adult
The Unchanging Sea
Self (archive footage)
Поцелуй Мэри Пикфорд
Rosita
Rosita
The Arcadian Maid
An Arcadian Maid
Ramona
Ramona
Daughter (Adult)
As It Is in Life
Martha
What the Daisy Said
Nell Herbert
The Dream
Peppina
Poor Little Peppina
Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
The Mountaineer's Honor
Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
The Violin Maker of Cremona
In Old Madrid
Polly Biblett
Sweet Memories
Self (uncredited)
Hollywood Hobbies
Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton
Secrets
Angela Moore
The Little American
Louise
The Eternal Grind
Fanchon, the Cricket
Fanchon, the Cricket
Caterina
The Taming of the Shrew
Dorothy
The Mirror
Rebecca Randall
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush'
Nina
Hearts Adrift
Mary MacTavish
Captain Kidd, Jr.
Jean Mackaye
How Could You, Jean?
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Girl in crowd
Pippa Passes
Miss Lucy
Getting Even
Mary
The Son's Return
Lola
A Manly Man
Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film
The Lonely Villa
The Indian Girl
A Pueblo Legend
Woman on Sidewalk
The Gibson Goddess
Self
Mary Pickford une légende et une malédiction hollywoodiennes
Daisy
The Light That Came
Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
The Country Doctor
Biscuit Victim
Her First Biscuits
A Strange Meeting
Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
The Black Pirate
Mary och Doug besöker Stockholm
The Lacemaker
Love Among the Roses
Ruth King
The Broken Locket
Blue Cloud's Wife
The Indian Runner's Romance
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
Alice
The Italian Barber
Artful Kate Stanley
Artful Kate
The Widow's Daughter
The Awakening
Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
The Way of Man
Queen Anna Victoria
Such a Little Queen
Archive footage
Одна из многих
Second Couple
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
Self
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Self/Queen of the Movies
The Voice of Hollywood
Marion's Sister
Two Memories
Alice
Sweet and Twenty
As a Boy Dreams
Radha
Less Than the Dust
The Little Teacher
The Little Teacher
Myrtle
The Thread of Destiny
A Romance of the Western Hills
Mabel
In the Season of Buds
Mary Petersby
The Woman from Mellon's
Herself(archive footage)
What Do Those Old Films Mean?
Molly Hendricks
The Twisted Trail
The Girl
The Englishman and the Girl
George's Wife
The Smoker
A Mexican
The Two Brothers
The Young Woman
All on Account of the Milk
Madge Spotwood
For Her Brother's Sake
Jennie
A Rich Revenge
Alice Vance
The Newlyweds
Elsie Graham
The Master and the Man
The Girl
Never Again
The Wife's Friend
A Victim of Jealousy
May
May and December
Mabel Brown
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Grace
A Child's Impulse
Mae Darcy
Their First Misunderstanding
Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
The Lighthouse Keeper
Sadie Allen
Back to the Soil
A Messenger
The Call to Arms
Bessie
A Lucky Toothache
Mary
A Lucky Toothache
Mary
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
Mabel
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Mary
When We Were in Our 'Teens
Masie
A Gold Necklace
Nance Olden
In the Bishop's Carriage
Molly O
The Foundling
Hulda
Hulda from Holland
Jane Stuart
A Girl of Yesterday
Rags / Alice McCloud
Rags
The Virgin Mary
The Gaucho
The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
Waiter No. 5
Miss Wilkins
Simple Charity
Dove Eyes
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
Mercy Baxter
Caprice
Edith
A Plain Song
Betty
White Roses
Princess Gilda
For the Queen's Honor
The Miner's Wife's Sister
The Female of the Species
Esmeralda Rogers
Esmeralda
Hadee
In the Sultan's Garden
Haidee
In the Sultan's Garden
Tessie
When a Man Loves
Mary
Three Sisters
Anemone Breckenridge
The Eagle's Mate
Elsie Keene
Maid or Man
Dorothy, The Wife
When the Cat's Away
Flora Powell
A Gasoline Engagement
Bessie Wright
His Wife's Visitor
Mrs. Crawford
Science
Mrs Warren
At a Quarter of Two
Ruth
Her Darkest Hour
Dolly Lane
Behind the Scenes
Mary
A Decree of Destiny
Agnes Boyd
The Convert
Paula, The Fishing-Maid
The Fisher-Maid
Louise Spencer
The Message in the Bottle
On street/In store
The Peachbasket Hat
Edna
The Secret of the Palm
A young woman in the street
His Duty
At party
The Faded Lilies
Nell Gwyn
Mistress Nell
Unknown Role
Tracked
The Maid / In Pawnshop
The Necklace
The Señorita
The Mexican Sweethearts
Nellie
Tender Hearts
A Slave Girl
The Slave
Bessie
They Would Elope
A Disguised Servant
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
Glad
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Unknown Role
While There is hope, There is Life
Messenger's Sister
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Bessie
Oh, Uncle!
Gertrude Edgar
Second Sight
Nello
The Stampede
The Maid
The Seventh Day
Girl at Henry Brainard's
In the Watches of the Night
Partygoer
In Old Kentucky
The Girl
The Skating Bug
Mary
His Lost Love
The Mexican Girl
A Lodging for the Night
Mary
What's Your Hurry?
Amy Gordon
The Call of the Song
Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
The Toss of a Coin
Jessie - the Slavey
The Unwelcome Guest
Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist
The Fair Dentist
Bessie
The Test
Nellie Burt
The Trick that Failed
'Little Pal'
Little Pal
The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult
The Heart of an Outlaw
Eleanor
A Midnight Adventure
Alice Ashford
The Restoration
An Extra
Through the Breakers
Agnes Hailey
To Save Her Soul
The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
The Informer
Mary
The Courting of Mary
Mary
Love Heeds Not Showers
The Wife
My Baby
The Wife
The One She Loved
The Daughter
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
Mary Fuller
Honor Thy Father
Miss Kelsomine
The Caddy's Dream
The Rich Italian's Daughter
The Inner Circle
Faro Kate
With the Enemy's Help
Lena
Lena and the Geese
The Widow's Daughter
An Indian Summer
Grace
'Tween Two Loves
The Woman
Won by a Fish
The Young Woman
Just Like a Woman
The Young Woman
Home Folks
Iola
Iola's Promise
Unknown Role
The Rose's Story
Mary
How Mary Fixed it
Mrs. Kirby
His Dress Shirt
Unknown Role
The Sentinel Asleep
Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
A Timely Repentance
Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
The Better Way
Little Vera - the Model
The Portrait
The Mexican Girl
Fate's Interception
Self (archive footage)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Herself
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Tramp and the Dictator
Molly O
The Foundling
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Sigrid Holmquist
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
(archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
Self (archive footage)
La naissance de Charlot
Self (archive footage)
Et la femme créa Hollywood
Florence Williams
Behind the Stockade
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)
From the Bottom of the Sea
Cupid Angling
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Cinecittà Babilonia: sesso, droga e camicie nere
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood’s Children
Invalid Daughter
The Usurer
That Chink at Golden Gulch
Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler
Self (archive footage)
Hooray for Hollywood
What Drink Did
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Self (archive footage)
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
Self
Murders of Hollywood
Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
Anniversary
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
261
Gender
Female
Birthday
1892-04-07
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Also Known As
Baby Gladys