Mary Pickford

Name: Mary Pickford
Director: Sue Williams
Released: 2005-04-04
Duration: 55 min
Cast: Laura Linney, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Jeanine Basinger, Charlie Chaplin

S17 E6 April 4, 2005 0h 55m

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Overview

Profiling Mary Pickford, the silent-screen "sweetheart" who blazed the trail to Hollywood and became "America's first superstar." Pickford (1893-1979) was also an astute businesswoman: She founded United Artists with Charlie Chaplin and her husband-to-be Douglas Fairbanks. But, as filmmaker Sue Williams stresses here, there was no glorious sunset. As Pickford biographer Eileen Whitfield puts it, she was "the first has-been created by film."