Mary Pickford
Noun
Meaning
United States film actress (born in Canada) who starred in silent films (1893-1979)
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Examples
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
Chaplin left the company in 1955, and Pickford followed suit in 1956, selling her remaining shares for three million dollars. citation Personal life Mary Pickford, 1921 Pickford was married three times.
Celebrated for her wit, intelligence and beauty, Luce was an actor (at 10, she understudied Mary Pickford), a playwright (, 1937), a war correspondent (1939-1942), a member of Congress (1942-1946) and ambassador to Italy (1953-1956).