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3 unusual facts about Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood


Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood

The acclaimed biography took ten years to complete and was published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross in Canada and by the University Press of Kentucky in the United States.

Of it, Library Journal said: "there have been other biographies of Pickford, this will stand as the definitive one. Highly recommended."

Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood is a 1997 biography of actress Mary Pickford (1892–1979) written by Eileen Whitfield.


Causation in English law

Lord Steyn posed the question, "That immediately raises the point that there must be an explanation for the fact that she contracted PDA4. What was the cause of her PDA4? There really was no alternative on the evidence to concluding that this condition was caused by Miss Pickford's typing work."

Charlotte Smith

Charlotte Hennessy (1873–1928), usually referred to as Charlotte Smith, American actress and mother of Mary Pickford

Lottie Pickford (Charlotte Smith, 1895–1936), American actress and sister of Mary Pickford

Ed Stotsenberg

Originally the accountant for movie star Mary Pickford during the last 20 years of her life, Stotsenberg was one of the trustees of Mary Pickford Foundation established in the 1970s at the wishes of the star.

Hollywood Athletic Club

During its early years as a health club, its membership included Johnny Weissmuller, Errol Flynn, Charlie Chaplin, John Wayne, Walt Disney,John Ford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Mary Pickford, Cecil B de Mille, Cornel Wilde, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Frances X. Bushman, Howard Hughes, Joan Crawford and Rudolph Valentino, Mae West, Walt Disney, Buster Crabbe and Pola Negri.

Lottie Pickford

A Photoplay article from around the time of the release declared her "Pickford The Second!" and compared her to her sister, albeit as a worthy sequel.

Martin Pickford

Prior to 1993 the only institution with this privilege was the Kenya National Museums, in which Pickford was Head of the Department of Sites and Monuments from 1978 to 1984.

On October 30, 1998, Pickford was issued a permit to carry out research in the Tugen Hills of Kenya under the auspices of the Collège de France, Paris with an affiliation to the Community Museums of Kenya.

Mary Ada Pickford

Pickford was taken suddenly ill in March 1934, and three days later died of pneumonia at the family home in King Sterndale, Derbyshire.

Mary Pickford Theater

The Mary Pickford Theater, named in honor of silent film star Mary Pickford, is the "motion picture and television reading room" of the United States' Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

The Eternal Grind

The movie was received generally negatively, with The New York Times saying, "Obliged by her Famous Players contract to star in pedestrian melodramas like The Eternal Grind, it was no wonder that Mary Pickford yearned to become her own producer".

Wellworthy Athletic F.C.

The 1984–85 season was a memorable one as they completed a fantastic double by winning the Bournemouth League and the Pickford Cup, as well as being finalists in the Hampshire Intermediate Cup.


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