You can see Mary Pickford in vintage form in the 1919 film classic "Daddy Long Legs," playing a feisty orphan always ready to play a prank on snooty visitors. And 20 years after her death, more than ...

The producer, studio head and Oscar-winning actress would have been the envy of today's industry women. How did she get all that power a century... How Movie Darling Mary Pickford Became The Most ...

There's always a certain retrospective zeal to the Oscars. It's part of what will make the 90th Academy Awards this Sunday so interesting: Past meets Present, Present winks and tips its hat. Every ...

Mary Pickford reached unprecedented heights of fame -- and fell from stardom into semi-obscurity. Many remember her career and her films, but few know of the years that followed. Pickford's life is a ...

Introduction / Molly Haskell -- The Natural: Transitions in Mary Pickford's Acting from the Footlights to Her Greatest Role in Film / Eileen Whitfield -- Childhood Revisited: An Evaluation of Mary ...

Soon after the turn of twentieth century, Mary Pickford became "America's Sweetheart." In these interview excerpts, film historians explain her appeal, talk about her roles, and describe what it was ...

She was the first pop culture icon who took shape through cinema, the first Hollywood actress to produce her own pictures, the first screen queen to truly merit the label "superstar." Twenty-six years ...