Mary Pickford filmography

During the silent film era she became one of the first great celebrities of the cinema and a popular icon known to the public as "America's Sweetheart".

[1] Pickford was born Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto and began acting on stage in 1900.

By 1916 Pickford's popularity had climbed to the point that she was awarded a contract that made her a partner with Zukor and allowed her to produce her own films.

[4] In 1919 Pickford teamed with D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks to create United Artists, an organization designed to distribute their own films.

In December 1910 Carl Laemmle signed Pickford to his Independent Motion Picture Company (IMP).

After leaving IMP, Pickford signed with Harry H. Aiken's Majestic Film Company.

After leaving Biograph at the end of 1912, Pickford returned to stage acting in the Broadway production of David Belasco's play A Good Little Devil.

In May 1913 she resumed acting in motion pictures when she signed with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company.

In 1914 Paramount Pictures began handling the release of Zukor's Famous Players Film Company.

Among the agreements in the contract was that she would now be producing her own films and they would be distributed through a special division of Paramount Pictures called Artcraft.

In 1919 Pickford co-founded United Artists with Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Douglas Fairbanks.

In 1945, she and her third husband, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, co-founded Comet Productions to produce "B" pictures for United Artists.

Three Biograph titles, The Usurer (August 15, 1910), The Affair of an Egg (September 1, 1910), and Examination Day at School (September 2, 1910), and two IMP titles, At the Duke's Command (February 6, 1911) and From the Bottom of the Sea (October 20, 1911), have been erroneously listed in Mary Pickford filmographies.

[43] Mary Pickford is credited with appearing in the movie Pictureland in 1911, but a recently discovered copy shows that she is not in the film.