biography
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Pickford, Mary
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originally Gladys Mary Smith
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| lived:
| (1893–1979)
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| biography:
| Actress, born in Toronto, Ontario, SE Canada. She first appeared on the stage at the age of five, and made her film debut in 1909. Her beauty and ingenuous charm won her the title of ‘The World's Sweetheart’, her many successful films including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), and The Taming of the Shrew (1929). She made her first talkie, Coquette, in 1929, and retired from the screen in 1933. She founded United Artists Film Corporation in 1919. Her second husband was Douglas Fairbanks, Snr. |
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