Mary Pickford was born Gladys Smith in April of 1893. Her father died when she was five years old and she was forced into the role of helping her mother raise her siblings. Perhaps it was her early maturity that led to her assertiveness in acquiring starring roles in films starting in 1909. Pickford knew how to talk to producers so as to convince them that she was the right actress for the important roles. Her decisiveness, talent, maturity and persistence won her a very productive career in dozens of films. The film industry owes a great deal to the legacy set by this classic actress.

Movies/Films/Career:

• 1909: The Violin Maker of Cremona, The Lonely Villa, Her First Biscuits, Two Memories, The Way of Man, Sweet and Twenty, 1776 or The Hessian Renegades, The Gibson Goddess, The Slave, Getting Even, In Old Kentucky, The Little Darling, His Wife's Visitor, The Little Teacher, The Restoration, To Save Her Soul.
• 1910: The Englishman and the Girl, As It is in Life, An Affair of Hearts, Ramona, The Kid, A Rich Revenge, In the Season of Buds, May and December, A Son's Return, The Call to Arms, A Child's Impulse, Love Among the Races, What the Daisy Said, The Indian Runner's Romance, Wilful Peggy, The Sorrows of the Unfaithful, The Arcadian Maid, The Masher, The Awakening, A Lucky Toothache, Simple Charity, The Song of the Wildwood Flute, Sunshine Sue, Their First Misunderstanding, A Plain Song, A Summer Tragedy, White Roses.
• 1911: The Italian Barber, All on Account of the Milk, The Dream, Maid or Man, The Woman from Mellon's, Artful Kate, When the Cat's Away, A Manly Man, Her Darkest Hour, In Old Madrid, The Fisher-Maid, A Decree of Destiny, Three Sisters, For Her Brother's Sake, Science, In the Sultan's Garden, The Aggressor, Behind the Stockade, The Courting of Mary, Little Red Riding Hood.
• 1912: The Mender of Nets, Fate's Interception, Won by a Fish, The Old Actor, A Lodging for the Night, A Beast at Bay, Home Folks, Lena and the Geese, The Narrow Road, A Pueblo Legend, With the Enemy's Help, The Inner Circle, So Near Yet so Far, The One She Loved, Friends, The Informer, My Baby, The New York Hat.
• 1913: The Unwelcome Guest, In a Bishop's Carriage, Caprice.
• 1914: A Good Little Devil, Hearts Adrift, Tess of the Storm Country,The Eagle's Mate, Fate's Interception, Such a Little Queen, Behind the Scenes, Cinderella.
• 1915: Mistress Nell, Fanchon the Crickett, The Dawn of a Tomorrow, Little Pal, Rags, A Girl of Yesterday, Esmeralda, Madame Butterfly.
• 1916: Poor Little Peppina, The Foundling, The Eternal Grind.
• 1917: The Pride of the Clan, The Poor Little Rich Girl, A Romance of theRedwoods, The Little American, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Little Princess.
• 1918: Stella Maris, Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, M'Liss, How Could You Jean.
• 1919: Captain Kidd Jr., Daddy Long Legs, The Hoodlum, Heart o' the Hills.
• 1920: Pollyanna,Suds, The Love Light, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Through the Back Door.
• 1921:Tess of the Storm Country.
• 1922: Rosita.
• 1924: Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall.
• 1925:Little Annie Rooney.
• 1926: Sparrows.
• 1927: My Best Girl, The Gaucho.
• 1929: Coguette, The Taming of the Shrew.
• 1931: Kiki.
• 1933: Secrets.

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• Leena and the Geese.
• Hearts Adrift.
• A Girl of Yesterday.

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• The Poor Little Rich Girl.
• The Little American.
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
• The Little Princess.
• Stella Maris.
• Amarillyof Clothes-Line Alley.
• M'Liss.
• How Could You Jean?
• Johanna Enlists.
• Captain Kidd Jr..
• Daddy Long Legs.
• The Hoodlum.
• Heart of the Hills.
• Pollyanna.
• Suds.

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• The Love Light.
• LIttle Lord Fauntleroy.
• Through the Back Door.
• Tess of the Storm Country ( produced the remake of this film in 1922).
• Rosita.
• Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall.
• Little Annie Rooney.
• Sparrows.
• My Best Girl.
• The Desperado.

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