Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1894 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian actress resident in the U.S., and also producer, screenwriter and film studio founder, who was a pioneer in the US film industry with a Hollywood career that spanned five decades. Pickford alongside her future husband, actor-producer Douglas Fairbanks, founded Pickford–Fairbanks Studios and United Artists, and was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Pickford is considered to be one of the most recognisable women in history. Known as "America's Sweetheart" during the silent film era, she is named on the list of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars as the 24th-top female star from the Classical Hollywood Cinema era and the "girl with the curls." Pickford was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting. She was one of the earliest stars to be billed under her own name, and was one of the most popular actresses of the 1910s and 1920s, earning the nickname "Queen of the Movies." She is credited with having defined the ingénue type in cinema. She was awarded the second Academy Award for Best Actress for her first sound film role in Coquette (1929). By the late 1920s, Pickford's career went into decline. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 1976 in consideration of her contributions to American cinema.

Filmography

• 2010Sigrid Holmquist — Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
• 2005Mary Pickford — Self/Archival Footage
• 2002D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
• 1995The Casting Couch
• 1988Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Hollywood — Self (archive footage), Self (archive footage, uncredited)
• 1967Mondo Hollywood
• 1953Yesterday and Today — (archive footage)
• 1949Love Happy — Executive Producer
• 1948Sleep, My Love — Producer
• 1947Stork Bites Man — Producer
• 1947The Way of the World — Dora (Archive Footage)
• 1947White Cradle Inn — Producer
• 1946Little Iodine — Executive Producer
• 1941Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
• 1936One Rainy Afternoon — Producer
• 1936The Gay Desperado — Producer
• 1933Secrets — Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton, Executive Producer
• 1931Kiki — Kiki
• 1931The House That Shadows Built — (archive footage)
• 1930Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 — Mary Pickford
• 1930The Voice of Hollywood — Self/Queen of the Movies
• 1929Coquette — Norma Besant, Producer
• 1929The Taming of the Shrew — Caterina
• 1927My Best Girl — Maggie Johnson, Producer
• 1927The Gaucho — The Virgin Mary
• 1926Sparrows — Molly, Producer
• 1926The Black Pirate — Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
• 1925Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ — Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
• 1925Little Annie Rooney — Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney, Writer, Producer
• 1924Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall — Dorothy Vernon, Producer, Director
• 1924Mary and Doug Visit Stockholm
• 1923Garrison's Finish — Writer
• 1923Hollywood — Mary Pickford
• 1923Rosita — Rosita, Producer
• 1922From Farm to Fame — Mary Pickford
• 1922Tess of the Storm Country — Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner, Producer
• 1921Little Lord Fauntleroy — Cedric Errol / Widow Errol, Producer
• 1921The Love Light — Angela Carlotti, Producer
• 1921Through the Back Door — Jeanne Bodamere, Producer
• 1920Pollyanna — Pollyanna Whittier, Producer
• 1920Suds — Amanda Afflick, Producer
• 1919Captain Kidd, Jr. — Mary MacTavish
• 1919Daddy-Long-Legs — Judy Abbott, Producer
• 1919Heart o' the Hills — Mavis Hawn
• 1919The Hoodlum — Amy Burke, Executive Producer
• 1918100% American — Mayme
• 1918Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley — Amarilly Jenkins
• 1918Cupid Angling
• 1918How Could You, Jean? — Jean Mackaye, Producer
• 1918Johanna Enlists — Johanna Renssaller, Executive Producer
• 1918M'Liss — Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
• 1918Stella Maris — Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
• 1917A Little Princess — Sara Crewe, Producer
• 1917A Romance of the Redwoods — Jenny Lawrence
• 1917All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
• 1917Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm — Rebecca Randall
• 1917The Little American — Angela Moore, Producer
• 1917The Poor Little Rich Girl — Gwen
• 1917The Pride of the Clan — Marget MacTavish
• 1916Hulda from Holland — Hulda
• 1916Less Than the Dust — Radha, Producer
• 1916Poor Little Peppina — Peppina, Producer
• 1916The Eternal Grind — Louise
• 1916The Foundling — Molly O
• 1915A Girl of Yesterday — Jane Stuart
• 1915Esmeralda — Esmeralda Rogers
• 1915Fanchon, the Cricket — Fanchon, the Cricket
• 1915Little Pal — 'Little Pal'
• 1915Madame Butterfly — Cho-Cho-San
• 1915Mistress Nell — Nell Gwyn
• 1915Rags — Rags / Alice McCloud
• 1915The Dawn of a Tomorrow — Glad
• 1915The Foundling — Molly O
• 1914A Good Little Devil — Juliet
• 1914Behind the Scenes — Dolly Lane
• 1914Cinderella — Cinderella
• 1914Hearts Adrift — Nina, Writer
• 1914Such a Little Queen — Queen Anna Victoria
• 1914Tess of the Storm Country — Tessibel Skinner
• 1914The Eagle's Mate — Anemone Breckenridge
• 1913Caprice — Mercy Baxter
• 1913In the Bishop's Carriage — Nance Olden
• 1913The Unwelcome Guest — Jessie - the Slavey
• 1912A Beast at Bay — The Young Woman
• 1912A Feud in the Kentucky Hills — The Daughter
• 1912A Lodging for the Night — The Mexican Girl
• 1912A Pueblo Legend — The Indian Girl
• 1912A Timely Repentance — Mrs. Nordell - Heroine of the Movie within the Movie, 'The Wife's Desertion'
• 1912An Indian Summer — The Widow's Daughter
• 1912Fate's Interception — The Mexican Girl
• 1912Friends — Dora - the Orphan
• 1912Home Folks — The Young Woman
• 1912Honor Thy Father — Mary Fuller
• 1912Iola's Promise — Iola
• 1912Just Like a Woman — The Young Woman
• 1912Lena and the Geese — Lena, Screenplay
• 1912My Baby — The Wife
• 1912So Near, Yet So Far — The Young Woman
• 1912The Female of the Species — The Miner's Wife's Sister
• 1912The Informer — The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
• 1912The Inner Circle — The Rich Italian's Daughter
• 1912The Mender of Nets — The Little Net-Mender
• 1912The Narrow Road — Mrs. Jim Holcomb
• 1912The New York Hat — Mary Harding, the Daughter
• 1912The Old Actor — The Old Actor's Daughter
• 1912The One She Loved — The Wife
• 1912The School Teacher and the Waif — Nora, the Waif
• 1912With the Enemy's Help — Faro Kate
• 1912Won by a Fish — The Woman
• 1911'Tween Two Loves — Grace
• 1911A Decree of Destiny — Mary
• 1911A Gasoline Engagement — Flora Powell
• 1911A Manly Man — Lola
• 1911Artful Kate — Artful Kate Stanley
• 1911As a Boy Dreams
• 1911At a Quarter of Two — Mrs Warren
• 1911Back to the Soil — Sadie Allen
• 1911Behind the Stockade — Florence Williams
• 1911Caught in the Act — Screenplay
• 1911For Her Brother's Sake — Madge Spotwood
• 1911For the Queen's Honor — Princess Gilda
• 1911From the Bottom of the Sea — Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)
• 1911Her Darkest Hour — Ruth
• 1911His Dress Shirt — Mrs. Kirby
• 1911How Mary Fixed it — Mary
• 1911In Old Madrid
• 1911In the Sultan's Garden — Hadee, Haidee
• 1911Little Red Riding Hood — Little Red Riding Hood
• 1911Love Heeds Not Showers — Mary
• 1911Madame Rex — Writer
• 1911Maid or Man — Elsie Keene
• 1911Science — Mrs. Crawford
• 1911Second Sight — Gertrude Edgar
• 1911Sweet Memories — Polly Biblett
• 1911The Better Way — Lillian Garvey - a Salvation Army Lass
• 1911The Caddy's Dream — Miss Kelsomine
• 1911The Call of the Song — Amy Gordon
• 1911The Convert — Agnes Boyd
• 1911The Courting of Mary — Mary
• 1911The Dream — Nell Herbert
• 1911The Fair Dentist — Edith Morton - The Fair Dentist
• 1911The Fisher-Maid — Paula, The Fishing-Maid
• 1911The Italian Barber — Alice
• 1911The Lighthouse Keeper — Polly Berry - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
• 1911The Master and the Man — Elsie Graham
• 1911The Medallion — Rumored, Screenplay
• 1911The Message in the Bottle — Louise Spencer
• 1911The Mirror — Dorothy
• 1911The Portrait — Little Vera - the Model
• 1911The Rose's Story — Unknown Role
• 1911The Secret of the Palm — Edna
• 1911The Sentinel Asleep — Unknown Role
• 1911The Skating Bug — The Girl
• 1911The Stampede — Nello
• 1911The Temptress — Lucille Allen
• 1911The Toss of a Coin — Alice Barton - the Farmer's Daughter
• 1911Their First Misunderstanding — Mae Darcy
• 1911Three Sisters — Mary
• 1911Tracked — Unknown Role
• 1911When a Man Loves — Tessie
• 1911When the Cat's Away — Dorothy, The Wife
• 1911While There is hope, There is Life — Unknown Role
• 1910A Child's Impulse — Grace
• 1910A Gold Necklace — Masie
• 1910A Lucky Toothache — Mary, Bessie
• 1910A Plain Song — Edith
• 1910A Rich Revenge — Jennie
• 1910A Romance of the Western Hills
• 1910A Victim of Jealousy — The Wife's Friend
• 1910All on Account of the Milk — Sophia Simpson
• 1910An Affair of Hearts — Extra
• 1910An Arcadian Maid — The Arcadian Maid
• 1910As It Is in Life — Daughter (Adult)
• 1910In the Season of Buds — Mabel
• 1910Love Among the Roses — The Lacemaker
• 1910May and December — May, Writer
• 1910Muggsy Becomes a Hero — Mabel
• 1910Muggsy's First Sweetheart — Mabel Brown
• 1910Never Again — The Girl
• 1910Ramona — Ramona
• 1910Simple Charity — Miss Wilkins
• 1910Sunshine Sue
• 1910That Chink at Golden Gulch
• 1910The Call to Arms — A Messenger
• 1910The Englishman and the Girl — The Girl
• 1910The Newlyweds — Alice Vance
• 1910The Smoker — George's Wife
• 1910The Song of the Wildwood Flute — Dove Eyes
• 1910The Sorrows of the Unfaithful — Mary
• 1910The Thread of Destiny — Myrtle
• 1910The Twisted Trail — Molly Hendricks
• 1910The Two Brothers — A Mexican
• 1910The Unchanging Sea — The Daughter as an Adult
• 1910The Usurer — Invalid Daughter
• 1910The Woman from Mellon's — Mary Petersby
• 1910Waiter No. 5 — The Chief of Police's Son's Fiancée
• 1910What the Daisy Said — Martha
• 1910When We Were in Our 'Teens — Mary
• 1910White Roses — Betty
• 1910Wilful Peggy — Peggy
• 19091776, or The Hessian Renegades — Messenger's Sister
• 1909A Midnight Adventure — Eleanor
• 1909A Strange Meeting
• 1909Getting Even — Miss Lucy
• 1909Her First Biscuits — Biscuit Victim
• 1909His Duty — A young woman in the street
• 1909His Lost Love — Mary
• 1909His Wife's Visitor — Bessie Wright
• 1909In Old Kentucky — Partygoer
• 1909In the Watches of the Night — Girl at Henry Brainard's
• 1909Lines of White on a Sullen Sea — Second Couple
• 1909Oh, Uncle! — Bessie
• 1909Pippa Passes — Girl in crowd
• 1909Sweet Revenge
• 1909Sweet and Twenty — Alice
• 1909Tender Hearts — Nellie
• 1909The Awakening — The Widow's Daughter, Screenplay
• 1909The Broken Locket — Ruth King
• 1909The Cardinal's Conspiracy — A Disguised Servant
• 1909The Country Doctor — Poor Mother's Elder Daughter
• 1909The Day After — Writer
• 1909The Faded Lilies — At party
• 1909The Gibson Goddess — Woman on Sidewalk
• 1909The Heart of an Outlaw — The Outlaw's Daughter, as an Adult
• 1909The Indian Runner's Romance — Blue Cloud's Wife
• 1909The Light That Came — Daisy
• 1909The Little Darling — Little Darling
• 1909The Little Teacher — The Little Teacher
• 1909The Lonely Villa
• 1909The Mexican Sweethearts — The Señorita
• 1909The Mountaineer's Honor — Harum-Scarum, a Mountain Girl
• 1909The Necklace — The Maid / In Pawnshop
• 1909The Peachbasket Hat — On street/In store
• 1909The Renunciation — Kittie Ryan
• 1909The Restoration — Alice Ashford
• 1909The Sealed Room — A Lady-in-Waiting
• 1909The Seventh Day — The Maid
• 1909The Slave — A Slave Girl
• 1909The Son's Return — Mary
• 1909The Test — Bessie
• 1909The Trick that Failed — Nellie Burt
• 1909The Violin Maker of Cremona — Giannina, Taddeo's Daughter
• 1909The Way of Man — Winnie, Mabel's Cousin
• 1909They Would Elope — Bessie
• 1909Through the Breakers — An Extra
• 1909To Save Her Soul — Agnes Hailey
• 1909Two Memories — Marion's Sister
• 1909What Drink Did
• 1909What's Your Hurry? — Mary

Appearances as themselves (33)

• 2028Charmed Lives: A Family Romance — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse — Self
• 2020Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts — Self - Actress (archive footage)
• 2016The Women Who Run Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Birth of the Tramp — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe — Self (archive footage)
• 2008Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema — Self (voice) (archive footage)
• 2005Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Elf: Christmas in Tinseltown — Self (archive)
• 2003Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Murders of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Decasia: The State of Decay — Self (archive footage)
• 2002The Tramp and the Dictator — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2000Mary Pickford: A Life on Film — Self / Numerous Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1998Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists — Self / Various roles (archive footage)
• 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self (archive footage)
• American Experience — Self
• 1988Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me — Self (archive footage)
• 1982Hollywood’s Children — Self (archive footage)
• 1976Hooray for Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 1963Anniversary — Herself - Archive Footage (uncredited)
• 1961The Legend of Rudolph Valentino — Self (archive footage)
• 1942Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 — Self
• 1940Cavalcade of the Academy Awards — Self (archive footage)
• 1939Hollywood Hobbies — Self (uncredited)
• 1934Hollywood on Parade No. B-10 — Self
• 1934Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove — Self
• 1933Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1932Hollywood on Parade No. A-4 — Self (uncredited)
• 1927A Kiss from Mary Pickford — Self (archive footage)
• 1927One of Many — Self (archive footage)