Mary Pickford and the Library of Congress
The relationship between Mary Pickford and The Library of Congress (LoC) began in 1943 when Archibald MacLeish, the Librarian of Congress, formally approached Pickford with a request for copies of her...
View ArticleMary Pickford and the UCLA Film & Television Archive
In 2001, The Mary Pickford Foundation partnered with the UCLA Film & Television Archive to access the Foundation’s film elements, and to photo-chemically restore My Best Girl. In 2013, the Film...
View ArticleMary Pickford and the Paramount Pictures Archive
The Mary Pickford Foundation and Paramount Pictures Archive are partnering to bring three of Mary Pickford’s films to a modern audience. Tess of the Storm Country (1914) and Madame Butterfly (1915)...
View ArticleParamount and Mary Pickford Foundation Jointly Announce Partnership for...
The Mary Pickford Foundation and Paramount Pictures Archive are partnering to bring three of Mary Pickford’s films to a modern audience. Tess of the Storm Country (1914) and Madame Butterfly (1915)...
View ArticleMary Pickford Foundation & The Library of Congress Partner to Digitally...
The Mary Pickford Foundation and the Library of Congress are now partnering to digitally preserve and master a number of Mary Pickford’s films, utilizing elements housed in the Mary Pickford...
View ArticleThe Origin of the Mary Pickford Cocktail
Pickford photographed in Vanity Fair in 1928. Photo by Edward Steichen / Conde Nast / Getty Images How the Mary Pickford cocktail came to be created might not be the most earth-shattering revelation,...
View ArticleDouglas Fairbanks, Jr. on Doug Sr.
This article by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. about his father was the first in a series of articles he wrote about his friends and family for Vanity Fair. (His next one would be on his stepmother Mary, also...
View ArticleMary Pickford, Iris Barry and the creation of the Museum of Modern Art Film...
In the summer of 1935, Mary was repositioning her public persona. Doug wasn’t in residence anymore and their divorce was in process, but she was determined to hold her head high and be as engaged in...
View ArticleMargaret Case Harriman
Margaret Case Harriman on Mary Pickford Margaret Case Harriman was a talented, droll and understated observer of people. She may have come by those skills naturally as she was the daughter of Frank...
View ArticleMary Pickford Joins Marie Dressler in the Canadian Women in Film Museum
Designed by women, curated by women, and built by women Marie Dressler was one of the great actresses of early Hollywood and her career was a true roller coaster worthy of a Hollywood script. A...
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