Mary Pickford (Page 1)

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 Mary Pickford as Judy Abbott in

Daddy-Long-Legs  (1919) plots

the ultimate crime: stalking a doll that she
 plans to snatch from a spoiled rich girl 

and give to a deathly ill girl at the asylum.

The image of  Mary Pickford  is from a film 
released the year after World War I ended.

The caption is verbatim and the photograph
appears in this book:

If there was ever a woman more important to the 
history of Hollywood than Ms. Pickford,
she has yet to be born.

Unfortunately, history has often been ignored
but, in 1999,  Kevin Brownlow  did 
a masterful job of reversing that trend.

(1892-1979)

Mary Pickford was once

the most famous woman

in the world.

The first actress to be known as

AMERICA'S SWEETHEART

was more popular than

the two men 

in the next 

photo.

One of those men 

is Charlie Chaplin.

The other is 

Douglas Fairbanks.

QUEEN OF THE MOVIES and 

THE WOMAN WHO MADE HOLLYWOOD

are two  other books about Mary. 

Mr. Brownlow's book 

was co-published by 

the same film Academy

which annually awards

Oscars to the worthy.

In 1927,  Ms. Pickford was the Founding Mother

of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The other publisher of 

MARY PICKFORD REDISCOVERED

is Henry A. Abrams who is no stranger 

to the GoFather of Math pages.

I will end this page with the words
Miss Pickford said to Mr. Brownlow in 1965:

I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about
a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much
that he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood
turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds
very sentimental, but for anybody 
who has loved a career as much
as I've loved mine,
there can be no shortcuts. 
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to be continued 
after serious consultation
with Kevin Brownlow's 
book designer

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