Mary Pickford
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Mary Pickford 🇨🇦

America's Sweetheart (Known as "Gladys Marie Smith")
Oscar-Winning Actress, Producer, Co-founder of United Artists and AMPAS
Born 8 April 1892 🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada
Passed Away 29 May 1979 Santa Monica, United States
Lifespan 87 years old
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Toronto-born silent cinema icon, first superstar of world cinema, who co-founded United Artists Studio and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Biographical Record

Gladys Marie Smith, known to millions worldwide as Mary Pickford ("America's Sweetheart" and "The Girl with the Curls"), was born on University Avenue in Toronto. Beginning as a child stage actor to support her widowed mother, Pickford transitioned to film with D.W. Griffith in 1909, quickly becoming the most recognizable and powerful woman in entertainment history.

Pickford was a shrewd business mogul who produced her own films. In 1919, alongside Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith, she co-founded United Artists to guarantee creative autonomy. She won the Best Actress Oscar for Coquette (1929) and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1976.

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Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale, United States
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