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