Biographies: Mary Pickford - Actor

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Gladys Marie Smith, better known as Mary Pickford, was born on April 8, 1982, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mary Pickford was a Canadian-American film actress who participated in many silent films, co-founded the United Artists Corporation, and co-founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She was a pioneer of the film industry in America. Pickford's most notable films include Little Annie Rooney (1925), My Best Girl (1927), and Coquette (1929). In the 1910s and 1920s, Mary Pickford was considered the most famous actress in the world. She married three times, the first of which was on January 7, 1911, to Irish actor Owen Moore, but Owen Moore's drinking led to serious problems that ended in their official separation on March 2, 1920. She married Douglas Fairbanks in the same year, but they were divorced in 1936. Mary married Charles "Buddy" Rogers in 1937, until her death on May 29, 1979, in Santa Monica, California.

• 22 March 2022
• Dalia Saad