Mary Pickford documentary

[@judybrady860]

i loved her so much. i was a teenager in the 70's and i collected her silent films through black hawk films. i wrote her many times and when i gave her a holy card then i received a autographed photo. rest in peace miss pickford. gold bless you. we will see you in heaven.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

You still have the letter

[@amberpearce222]

Thats so cool, Im a teen now and I

[@patriciahall2223]

I love Mary Pickford , her life story is very interesting...I often sit near her birthplace here in Toronto on University Ave and think about her....🇨🇦

[@tonyarceneaux286]

They should do a movie on her.

[@tameriajones593]

I remember when I first saw Mary Pickford on Classic showcase on television in one of her movies were peaceful and I stayed quiet the whole day. I didn't know she was French.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@tonyarceneaux286 sh said she didn’t want a movie on her

[@pattywitham8253]

I knew her son Ron Rogers he was a good man we were good friends my he RIP.

[@judystine2783]

What a beautiful documentary about a beautiful, hardworking woman way, way ahead of her time.

[@leepadua8987]

I love Mary! She was a great actress and a comedienne. She had good comic timing and the expressions on her face was just hilarious!

[@johnnydoughness7051]

I used to watch her in shorts (films) in between cartoons 1975 (Abbott & Costello?) as a kid, I fell totally in love with her and would anxiously wait for another chance to see her again. What a tragic tale, to be lost in obscurity after having been so seminal in the founding of Hollywood and film. Goodbye Mary, I still love you.

[@monkeynumbernine]

500k?!?! WOW!!! I believe all of the silent films should be saved and restored. I love them 💗

[@arnepianocanada]

Very well made. No surprise about Chaplin so irresponsible to United Artists; very sad about Mary & Doug Fairbanks. She endured so much from family on - deserves our highest respect🙏

[@Garbeaux.]

It’s crazy to think she would have been one of the most famous women a century ago! The ending of her life was tragic bc she was forgotten instead of appreciated. For some reason, actors who were famous in the silent did not like the association. Especially once Sunset Boulevard came out with real silent stars in scenes that had them portrayed as out of touch & living in the past. Even those stars who did cross over, like Joan Crawford, would even omit the fact they had been in silent films. It was indeed sad that such pioneers were treated in such ways.

[@annnee6818]

What do you mean. She WAS one of the most famous women a century ago

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@annnee6818a lot of what he’s saying is wrong I mean everyone knew that Joan Crawford started off from the silent s

[@alexandergietzen1667]

Why hasn't a movie been made of this great pioneer of Hollywood? She is a great American icon!

[@janethayes5941]

Ikr? Seems like that would be a great movie! I'd buy a ticket for sure.

[@MOTHATALKS]

Shes not black

[@bbrown333]

Because we have to live through 323423525324453156 Marilyn Monroe movies first.

[@wilburmcbride8096]

@Private Citizen It's sad that her stepson fought so hard to not have a biopic movie made about her life. We all have ups and downs in our lives, so I think those struggles would make for a great movie.

[@kirkreid743]

@@MOTHATALKS Tell me you're a Trump supporter without telling me you're a Trump supporter.

[@melissacoelho8413]

What an amazing woman. What a sad life, my heart breaks for her. What her legacy is and always will be, should have been celebrated and so many after her should thank this amazing woman.

[@grumpyoldwizard]

My Dad worked at a office, along time ago (he is 81) and Mary Pickford actually called his office quite often. He said she could be very sweet on the phone, but then, in another call be quite incensed. She sounds like a very interesting woman.

[@Missditabomb]

@Average Joe: She became a severe alcoholic in the last decades of her life, so that could explain the behaviour.

[@sheenamcguire5225]

Can’t we all though

[@Dynamatrix2000]

When your Dad was in his 20s and Mary Pickford was in her 80s probably.

[@Noelle_White]

It’s hilarious that she’s labelled “America’s Sweetheart” as she was pure Canadian born and bred!

[@SweetNancy2704]

I didn't know this thanXx

[@MTknitter22]

yes but she married Americans and this was her home

[@johnfd0210]

Canada is part of North AMERICA.

[@Luna.3.3.3]

Yup!!! 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 💯

[@mayena]

Her noriety was first developed in the United States and she lived majority of her private life in the country.

[@michaelchristian5089]

Mary descending the grand stairway in Pickfair reminds me of the final scene in Sunset Boulevard. & silent screen queen Norma Desmond's fantasy comeback.

[@vivienbailes7009]

Yes, seeing this documentary of Mary Pickforfs life I immediately thought of the movie Sunset Boulevard staring William Holden, which now is also a classic movie. I wonder if the story/script writers took their inspiration from Mary Pickforfs life. Having said that while Mary Pickfords cinematic career was during my Grandmother's time ( I myself am getting old , 60 years old ). I have always been aware and known her name to be one of the most influential female actresses at the start of cinematic movies and beyond.

[@johnlloydgriffith3842]

@@vivienbailes7009 my thoughts exactly!! your spot on.

[@dondressel452]

What a great movie

[@BabsLongfellow]

Absolutely! I thought the same thing. Except she was more than an actress, she was a brilliant business woman. Hollywood will always be a"what have you done for me lately" town, . . . it's an ugly and shallow place.

[@m.syauqiabdurahman2798]

@@BabsLongfellow Yeah And it's sad that hollywood didn't giver her an enormous recognition . She is the one who built that glamorous , luxurious , and grand landscape of hollywood , she might be the inventor of modern screen acting , and she is a highly skilled businesswomen . What Eileen Whitefield say about Mary getting that Honorary Oscar just because she is a symbol of nostalgia is an insult is very true .

[@RianShafer]

I absolutely love everything about her & all she accomplished. I wonder if those that utilize the facilities for elder actors know it was she who first opened it? Like all of us that live well into retirement years, it truly is like all you did in your younger years matters not once you start out living so many dear friends & family. There's few left to remember or care. I think that hit Mary hardest because she had been so beloved & famous at one time by so many, then forgotten in time by most. I'm glad you did this documentary to keep her memory alive.

[@lisag18]

The term "Hollywood Royalty " was created for her. Her life had great highs but sadness underneath. Great strength.

[@alyseolympe]

George Westmore gave Mary Pickford her signature ringlets, he even added fake hair in her hair because fans were trying to cut it for a keepsake - His great granddaughter is actress McKenzie Westmore daughter of Michael Westmore makeup artist for Raging Bull, Mask, Star Trek series 🎬💄

[@madtwc4425]

It’s a shame how she shut herself away. My mom did the same thing stopped going out, didn’t want to join any clubs and stopped working on a book she was working on. She developed dementia and went downhill pretty quickly leaving me at 84 last October. It’s a real shame, for both of them.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

She wasn’t as reclusive as this made out to be greto Garbo was definitely more reclusive

[@timsteinkamp2245]

So you are 64 when writing this? You may find you are the same way whether dementia or not. My parents both just died and I'm feeling as Mary they say felt. Good luck. Most people as they age are tired of the grind and don't feel like doing stuff for others. Maybe if seniors were valued in society but they aren't.

[@laraoneal7284]

Had no idea she exposed child abuse. That is huge.

[@imsocuteimsorich4952]

I love films about the silent movie actoress+actors,like Mary pickford lillian guish exetra ,they should start making movies on these people ,they would be worth it and enjoyed to watch, keep the memories of the silent movie people alive ,they may be gone but not forgotten,💙🐦🎥🎬📹🌟🌟🌈👌💟💯🌟🌟all the way 😘💟

[@AntiMasonic93]

She was an icon. Extremely popular.

[@dianekennedy7086]

Wonderful biography - thanks so much for posting.

[@spicey6646]

LOL! That is so funny when that lady thinks she dropped her own drawers and they were Mary's! Classic.

[@imsocuteimsorich4952]

MARY WAS WAY AHEAD OF TIME IN 1900 SHE BECAME THE FIRS FEMALE PRODUCER AND ACTED IN HER MOVIES THINGS THAT WE SEE AS INNOCENT THEN WERE HORRIFIC IN THOSE DAYS BUT SHE WAS A WOMAN THAT WAS NOT GOING TO LET MEN CONTROL HER SHE FINALLY GOT THE RESPECT,SHE BECAME AN ICON AND TO THIS DAY IS NOT FORGOTTEN , GOOD ON YOU MARY, YOU MAY BE GONE BUT YOUR NOT FORGOTTEN,R,I,P,🌈🌈🌈✊✊👌👌👍👍🌹🐦🐦😘😘💟💟

[@MTknitter22]

It was sad how it ended for her.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

How come? She received an Oscar and was thanked for her involvement in the film industry in the. 70s

[@acdragonrider]

@@raptorfromthe6ix833But not in the right way. Didn’t you even watch this documentary??!!!😅

[@Hihoweryew]

She was a millionaire ​@@acdragonrider

[@SweetDreams706]

It still disgusts me that a D list actress & her husband razed Pickfair….bc they thought it was haunted 🙄. What a shame.

[@diatribe1194]

ON BEHALF OF MY FAMILY YOU ONCE REACHED OUT TO HELP I THANK MARY PICKFORD...GRACIAS AMIGA.

[@suzannethorndycraft5653]

Would have been more enjoyable with the music being a softer background. Missed the narration because of a ! use of loud music. When will producers ever learn the value of quieter backgrounds!!!

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Doug always fooled around. He was like that until he died. He believed his own studio publicity. Doug used black shoe polish on his hair. Later, Lou Costello did the same thing. Doug wore dark makeup on his face all the time. That, with his white teeth and fine clothes, made him look glamorous to people. He was the template for the movie star looking male.

[@annnee6818]

Oh THAT'S why he looked like a leather handbag... thanks

[@amycarmichael2748]

I love Mary Pickford !!💞💞💞 That’s Hollywood for ya, treats their stars like shit, even today still

[@correioanacabral]

That pretty lady has the most soothing voice 😍😍

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Had she (in a mode of despair at the arrival of more modern cinema and actors) destroyed her films on celluloid, that would have been an artistic and art history tragedy comparable to a burning of the Louvre or Dutch Masters at the onset of their nemeses, Arte Moderne.

[@relynshook9495]

She was an amazing woman

[@wvanderwahl]

Fascinating star . I wonder what ever happened to Pickfair? I wish the audio were louder. The narrator sounds like she was whispering.

[@theresapierce3934]

Pickfair was bought by a talentless bimbo, Pia Zadora who has literally destroyed the place.

[@Missditabomb]

@@theresapierce3934 Yes, it was demolished in 1990 by Pia and her husband. They kept the pool, some guest cottages, some of the living room, and that is it. (And the original gates to the home remained.) Zadora and her husband sold the home they built for $15 million. Pia and her husband said Pickfair was haunted by a woman who had an affair with Douglas Fairbanks and died there and that "strange, eerie, things were always happening" in the home, so that is why they razed it.

[@bbrown333]

I could barely hear anything.

[@billgreen1861]

@@Missditabomb here is a bit of trivia: Pickfair was built for $75,000.00 back in the 1920s. When Zadora and husband, bought it for $15,000,000.00 their mortgage payment was... ...Wait for it, $75,000.00 a month in other words the original cost of building it, now isn't that amazing. And not only they destroyed the house they subdivided the grounds and sold it to "unknown" people. Making 'Pickfair' smaller and unpleasant to admire. Just saying!

[@andrewthornhill7042]

@@Missditabomb I heard Zadora complained Pickfair was infested with mice or rats. A real shame the place was totalled.

[@johnchipol7716]

The best silent actress ever

[@garylowery6216]

I fell in love with Mary watching her films she was a buetiful Lady.We Miss You Mary.

[@charismalorelye4516]

Mary was a pioneer in its truest form. LOL. The saxophone playing in the background 🎷

[@sallyclay1974]

Silent movies were so different than sound. She was able to get the point across in early Hollywood,

[@sarahleach9997]

I took care of mary pickfords private secretary. Douglas fairbanks was crazy about her. She was also elizabeth taylors sunday school teacher.after that I started to love silent film actors.

[@migue4793]

She received the Academy Honorary Award in 1976, not 1972 like they said. It's sad she wasn't mentioned as the first woman to direct, produce, write and star in her own films, but after the 1920s Hollywood became male dominated doe the next 75 years.

[@juliannehannes11]

You'd think Kate Winslet or Reese Witherspoon would have starred in a biopic of her in the 00s like Leo in Aviator

[@ahyan6681]

Kate Winslet would be so perfect as Mary, If I go to film industry I swear to make a film on Mary Pickford from 0 to 87 years old

[@tameriajones593]

No not exactly you would need a French actress to play her.

[@Mr.Frogmutt]

i just met her great nephew today, imma be honest i dont have a clue who she is but her great nephew is a cool guy

[@Lottie2002]

Wow! Incredible story! Creepy how she got type cast playing little girls. I know it's common for actors to play younger but an 11 yr old?!

[@michelleseager9782]

I think she was 5 ft, maybe. She was really petite, and could play it, who knows?

[@scotnick59]

I thought Mary's voice was actually below-par for the talkies: a bit cartoonish and affected: high pitched with no depth

[@brandyyolidio4213]

I remember her as a little girl in the Charlie Chaplain movies that I saw years later. I remember her by that small mouth and pretty innocent face of hers. Drew Barrynore makes me think of her

[@Dynamatrix2000]

Mary Pickford worked with Drew Barrymore's great uncle (Lionel Barrymore) and Grandfather (John Barrymore Sr.).

[@sliceoflife4220]

The math doesnt add up she was only 3 years yonger then chaplin

[@crazymotherdance7317]

I like silenr movies & Mary Pickford

[@pjchj3599]

She made hollywood with Chaplin and Douglas furbank The first queen of hollywood is her not bette davis or kathurine hepburn

[@kevinhealey6540]

Mary Pickford wrote an excellent book called, "Why not try God?" that can be found on the internet.

[@usmcgrunt3754]

Absolutely no doubt about her greatness, talent, fame and influence. But the FIRST true Hollywood star was a different Canadian: Florence Lawrence.

[@LucyElHawari]

Poor Florence Lawrence who sadly commited suicide ingesting ant poison and cough syrup after years of failed attempts to resume her career, a string of personal losses and very poor health. Her grave remained unmarked until an angel aka Roddy Mcdowall paid for her memorial marker. Her sad fate always breaks my heart.

[@m.syauqiabdurahman2798]

@@LucyElHawari yeah I just know her thru Hollywood Graveyard channel

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@LucyElHawari :( that’s what Hollywood does to people it believes to be no longer useful it is as cutthroat as they say

[@cattycorner8]

Yes !

[@lillianmcgrew217]

So sad 😔

[@oobrocks]

Lillian Gish was just as talented and famous; she even co-stared in 1955's Night / Hunter!

[@Bloodreign1]

Gish and Pickford also happened to be good friends, and I believe it was Pickford who got Gish her first break.

[@almeggs3247]

She was a beautiful true traditional Catholic actress!

[@2degucitas]

This documentary resembles the other one so much. A british accent film expert (the other has Roddy McDowall) , old timey and jazz music, female presenter..... it's such a copy. But, still good.

[@sint0xicateme]

41:55 that horse is literally starving! :(

[@geraldinebowbia5176]

Absolutely beautiful 🤩🙏❤️

[@SenorZorrozzz]

I love the Mary films. She was a really special, skilled woman. However, the first movie star was Florence Lawrence; the first film actress whose name was used to promote her films! At Biograph Studios in 1908, she was paid a $25-per-week salary! Wow! Well that was probably like hundreds a week back then: good money! Florence was also directed by the celebrated pioneering filmmaker, D.W. Griffith!

[@LucyElHawari]

You just took the words out of my mouth...

[@johnchipol7716]

Roddy mcdowell paid for a grave to put floence which reads this is the 1st actress of movies

[@ahyan6681]

Yh but Mary was more famous

[@Dynamatrix2000]

Pickford was making hundreds of thousands of dollars around the same time. Florence was making peanuts as an silent film actress.

[@tameriajones593]

Mary Pickford was lucky she was the best.

[@mariacardenas4665]

She Was Married To Douglas Fairbanks

[@pawelsawicki7003]

She is adorable 🥰

[@lavalleeemily]

She was a good actor

[@markmower1746]

Actress, she’s a woman.

[@Magnetron33]

@@markmower1746 Female actresses are ocasionally refered to as actors. You are technically correct though!

[@imsocuteimsorich4952]

THIS SONG WAS DEDICATED TO MARY, CALLED LET ME CALL U SWEET HEART,MY GRANNY ALWAYS SANG IT TO ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG,THERE WAS LOADS OF SONGS SANG ,BUT THE BEST ONE WAS IN 1931?,MARY WILL ALWAYS BE MY ICON,R,I,P,💙🐦🌈🌹😘🎥🎥🎬MRS SWEET 💜😘🎥🎬

[@RB-im5mk]

It's not tragic. It was a lovely time for her and her fans. Yes, it is sad, it has ended, like all things have to do. Thank You Mary.

[@birddog3130]

Reminds me of Marlo Thomas @ 3:53 minutes.

[@katieusbrownius]

Joan Crawford's first mother in law!

[@seabreeze9296]

Mary Pickford's silent movies available on youtube for full viewing

[@amyjones8114]

That was depressing af.

[@FG-bn3qq]

where can I find the soundtrack for this

[@Myplop]

That so called friend of hers had nothing but nasty things to say

[@chucksellers8422]

i watched a program yesterday that said Mary Pickford would not be friends with Clara Bow as to not remind people she wasn't born rich. I would like her more if I didn't know that.

[@JB-ox7ib]

She was a business woman ultimately 😐

[@ahyan6681]

I love Mary and Clara but Mary shouldn't have done that

[@melissacoelho8413]

What? You would like it better if you didn’t know she was born poor and had to support her family from a very early age? Or you would like it if she pretended to be a rich child? Or that she would have been friends with Clara Bow anyway? Sorry a little confused by your statement. Not trying to cause a argument, I’m sincerely confused. Thank you.

[@Missditabomb]

Interesting!!

[@rossmartenak5517]

Why did she change her birth name?

[@tonyarceneaux286]

Her career suffered when the talking movies started right?🇨🇦.

[@johnhummer265]

Very sad biography of a very talented individual, whos abilities were subjugated by the passage of time n eras n personal tragedies....just as circumstances of the time made her a reknowned star so the changes of time, equally brought her down as fast as she rose.....But as a 1st in motion pictures she will always carry the persona she had for being the 1st.

[@dondressel452]

10 dollars a day back then must have been a pretty decent sum

[@princesskayla1400]

Yes it about 240 dollars in today money 2021.

[@sophisticatedmm3632]

@@princesskayla1400 I look up different dollar amount in previous years vs today's $ as well

[@nelsonx5326]

She is pretty.

[@jonathansmith3449]

The name of this channel means ‘the green room’

[@DaughterOfChrist1997]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@newnormal1841]

❎. 100 yrs 🤺💐

[@kaydavis1156]

13:23

[@ComeAlongKay]

Okay this is clearly biased towards women a good bit, of course I guess everything is. Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin were also around then, and Chaplin sold out like Mickey Mouse at that time.

[@philipcallicoat9947]

Obviously a true legend: ..(according to herself)

[@melissacoelho8413]

According to many not only in the industry, but many that enjoyed and enjoy to day the incredibly talented woman she was. Not to mention starting a studio she herself had to finance as her two partners were to busy indulging themselves. So at what point do you not see this? Just a question, as you, by your post seem to have a great deal of distain for her.

[@classiclife7204]

Soundtrack. GOOD. GRIEF. Shhhh! It's deafening; I literally can't hear the narrator. At one point late in the doc, a screaming saxophone passes gas all over the place. Why are there scores to programs like these? Are they worried I won't know what to feel? ANYway. Sorry. So about the doc. It's a good little one. There's a PBS "American Experience" one that's longer and covers a little more detail, but this one more or less gets it, plus it has Kevin Brownlow, who was (is?) the world's foremost expert on silent films. I also appreciate the scornful eye to that "tribute" Oscar which no one, apparently including Pickford, cared about in the slightest; it was found in a closet somewhere in Pickfair by Jerry Buss, the owner of the place after Mary died. (Buddy Rogers didn't even bother taking it with him when he hurriedly absconded before her body was cold.) I'm pleased with the focus on the late-period "My Best Girl", as it was Mary's Best Movie. You can see some of her earlier stuff here on KZbin. If you can deal with "The Little Princess", more power to you. Amazingly, a movie about a poor ugly girl who sacrificed her very life so that her social betters can be happy hasn't survived the good opinion of Time. And we really do need to consider that Pickford must have had a detestable personality, even when sober. Fairbanks couldn't get away from her fast enough after the Talkies, Rogers appears to have BOLTED Pickfair and everything about it immediately after Mary died, and she only had a few friends while living. It becomes quite clear whom Billy Wilder and Gloria Swanson was portraying in "Sunset Blvd", with the lonely, crazed person, practically housebound, spinning wheels forever in a rotting Beverly Hills mansion. (Hint: it wasn't Swanson.)

[@panizv.7416]

5:13

[@nomdeplume7537]

There's so much damn hyperbole, and pomposity. The pre-eminent... Most wealthy since Cleopatra ... I'm sure Queen Vicky might have had something to say about that. How about Catherine the Great ...

[@marcoscastillojaen1888]

Aquella niña.

[@jannepetersen4660]

That was one skinny horse......but Mary was the greatest of them all......

[@amyclarke41]

charlie Chaplin worked with her

[@KathyJean]

This narration is pretty bad.

[@ScratchthechalkBoard]

Mr Pickford lol

[@princesskayla1400]

No. Lillian Gish was the first American sweetheart.

[@ahyan6681]

no

[@Dynamatrix2000]

You need to do some research because that's simply not true. Pickford got Gish work in her films, then she became a star herself.

[@Wsaetre]

Why can't these documentaries find voice-over narrators who know how to narrate and speak naturally? This one, in particular wafts between Ophelia and any 20th century actress with an affected accent. It is nothing more than distracting. LOUSY.

[@bostonblackie9503]

Heard a lot worst. Very easy on the ears.

[@sailorforlifebestti3366]

she never had kids?

[@hubertblairbonds2360]

Her adopted daughter is in this film, and there was also an adopted son. But, never any children of her own.

[@usportraits2429]

Too bad. The public won't know the truth until they go public.

[@leahmayes2417]

She’s my great, great, great Aunt.

[@Lottie2002]

I always wondered. I read somewhere the studio forced her to have an abortion when she was young and this prevented her ever being able to have a child

[@yohei72]

@@Lottie2002 Jesus, I'd never heard that. There's a lot of nostalgia for the "good old days" of the golden age Hollywood studios, but they were pretty evil when it came to what they did to their personnel in the quest for money.

[@bronxbearbud272]

From what I've read, she and her husband were very disrespectful to Joan Crawford, feeling that she wasn't good enough to marry their son, or even come to dinner at Pickfair. Frankly, I would have a better time sharing a can of beans with Joan in some trash-strewn alley, and who can even name a Mary Pickford picture these days, let alone have a sincere desire to see it?

[@maryjanelewis8651]

Joan Crawford? You must not know anything about how she treated her own children...

[@laurenmcnally1980]

@@maryjanelewis8651 please tell me you're joking and that you really don't believe that trashy crap book that Christina Crawford wrote basically to use her mother's name once again to make millions. all because she was mad that her mom left her out of her will because she was a devious disgusting brat. Honestly look more into this story before you call somebody basically a child abuser. Joan Crawford never abuse her children even her two twin daughters have spoken publicly many many times to state that they were never abused and Christina is a liar who just wanted to make money off her mom's

[@laurenmcnally1980]

Name. if she was really abused then why did she wait for her mother to die before she went public with her so-called story of abuse? Christina Crawford is a liar and a fraud and a disgusting human being. Miss Joan Crawford was a legend they just don't make them like Joan anymore

[@ahyan6681]

That's mostly caous she isnt remebered a lot sadly

[@Bloodreign1]

Crawford wasn't exactly the most friendliest of people, Mary on the other hand was a more kind and caring, and giving human being.

[@sarahleach9997]

I don't think anybody wants to be Julia Roberts.

[@pmtspmts8441]

This is not accurate. She had a son with Fairbanks who was married to Joan Crawford

[@kimboydstonartanddesign]

The son was from Doug Sr. Previous wife , not Mary Picford.

[@Dynamatrix2000]

They adopted 2 kids.

[@Bloodreign1]

Mary couldn't have kids, so the only 2 she had were both adopted.