Movie Legends - Mary Pickford

[1357Alison]

Mary Pickford looks pretty in all of her pictures

[seitanoglia]

Such a beautiful girl. RIP

[prmass1]

Great video! Well put together. I love the piano melody. One final note! I saw a picture of her just before she died and she does not appear whatsoever like she does in the pictures. It is sad how people become so old and fragile. Beauty just last a little while then its all gone. Not even hollywood's best doctors can save you.

[xxwhitepeltxx]

UNCOMPARABLE BEAUTY AND TALENT

[cyrilmaude]

Beautiful tribute to a truly fabulous lady!

[creamofcardstv]

great tribute to one of Hollywoods first legends!

[xAfroxSpectaculox]

Mary Pickford, Louise Brooks, Lillian Gish and Theda Bara are my favorite film stars of this time, they're so pretty (:

[0sceptique0]

I red in an encyclopedia that she was the very first America's sweetheart....

[1400deadwood]

Wonderful montage.

[teasymphony]

Wow, she was so beautiful and had such an expressive face. She made both silent films and talkies so exciting because her eyes could just tell a story. And she looked so young even into her 40's. If the rumor of her eating rose petals to stay youthful is true, I may have to try it sometime. She was amazing, very muse-like.

[NovemberThe27th]

CANADIAN! :D

[diordtrick]

What is the name of this song in the background?

[basilnelson]

The music title is 'Histoire D'Un reve' played by Richard Clayderman.

[EscapeToMyDreams]

Beautiful video!

Mary was an amazingly pretty lady. :-)

[luvebug21]

Good;)

[BobbieGood]

I apologise Lillian Gish wsa in the Film "The Wind" and it was her that was not trained for drama specifically at the start.

[niceguy63073]

America's Sweetheart. The first Mary Pickford movie i saw was "Sparrows". I remember being wowed when i read about Pickfair.

[matthijs199115013]

Mary Pickford had a lot working against her when the talkies arrived:

1) She had just lost her "little girl" persona by cutting her hair (in March 1928). That's something the public could never forgive her for.

2) Early technology. They made Mary Pickford sound al squeezy, but she had a normal voice! Watch "Secrets (1933)" and you notice it wasn't that bad.

3) Personal problems. Her mother, brother, sister and two (ex-)husbands died within 11 years (1928-1939). Poor Mary couldn't handle

[BSNFabricating]

That's true...

I DO wish she had continued her acting career in some way... Lillian Gish worked in the theater more after the talkies came along, and continued to make movies into her 90's.

But you're right, Mary had so much tragedy in a short time that it was too much to deal with.

[kinakina123123]

Mary's problem wasn't dealing with talkies but with people's perceptions of what the wanted the talkie Mary to be. But other events in her life were overwhelming her with deep emotional pain, she no longer had the heart to continue as an actress - she had United Artists to help run and films to produce. And as other events overtook her life, the agonising breakdown of her marriage to Fairbanks, 2 soul mates that never ever recovered from the split, but loved each other to the end of their lives.

[kinakina123123]

It was sad the Silent era ended when it did, there was still many classics to be made and Mary Pickford was just getting better and better, if that is possible! Her last two silents 'My Best Girl' and 'Sparrows' were greats and deserved Oscars if the Oscars had existed then. Matter of fact Mary made enough best of the best Silent movies to have gotten a dozen Oscars for best actress. Even her talkies Kiki and Secrets contain glorious moments only Pickord could have produced, she had much left.

[tmsala59]

Dear basilnelson:

I thoroughly enjoyed your video Movie Legends-Mary Pickford!

I'm a big fan of the silent era of Hollywood.

I was also touched by the piano music in it.

Could you please reply to me on the name of the music?

[yelloworangered]

Thank you. So many of these photos I had not seen before. I like the way that you included more than one from the same photography session. I wish that Mary's career had not ended with her youth and that she had been happier in her later life. That's the way it is with actresses -- their instrument is themselves and society only values them in their youth for the most part.

[iamsultana]

Gorgeous. That's enough to say, because there are no words to discribe Mary.

Music was so cheering and sad at the same time. A+ for the video.

[animator52101]

These videos are awesome! I just saw a documentary on Mary Pickford last week and I fell in love with her. She was an amazing person with great beauty and a humorous heart! Post them as you receive them. I would love to see more!

[lakewalker11]

Mary has my vote for the greatest movie star of all time. What greater tribute to an actress than the fact that, years after she has departed the screen---and this world---we can, in spite of all the technological innovations that have so 'improved' the movies in the last seven decades, we can and do fall in love with her all over again. Mary Forever! Thanks for posting this wonderful tribute.

[erzbet07]

Beautiful montage of Pickford portraits.  Mary could make you smile one moment and cry the next. I heartily recommend her movie SPARROWS but if you have any opportunity to see her, seize it! Thank you for a wonderful tribute to Miss Pickford!

[bengolly]

Love it... It is just wonderful..... But She wasn't the  Glad Girl. She named the first and orginal America's Sweetheart .

[LadyJML]

These are really beautiful pictures!

[LKayL]

I totally agree with you. And she had the nicest hair in showbiz.

[glodsbride86]

she was beautiful, actresses now yeah some are pretty but not how they used to be. kate winslet is beautiful though especially in titanic she looked like she had just stepped out of a old black and white movie from the 20's

[MovieBuffStarlet]

Wonderful! This has got to be my favorite Mary Pickford video! Great job!

What a beautiful song!

[globehunter2]

The HollyWood that once was is alive again in

this video` she was a charming figure of vintage

beauty that still warms the heart. Wonderful

[deritpeehs]

really, the "hollywood that once was'? i recall casting couches and whores for "jews" and wild devil parties where some people actually were maimed and murdered....get a decent clue.

[globehunter2]

That HollyWood that you speak of compared to

the social decline of today is still the ideal! now we have no fashion or morality,

just Shock_ Maime and Murder for entertaiment.

Face Reality!

[deketelaere]

Beautiful "Movie Legends"

Thank you so much.

Deketelaere-Ciccione

[babak77]

She is the most beautiful women I have ever seen.

[yidneth]

she looked quite lovely! I saw all her movies in a row a while back when they were all aired in a cyclein spain. Then read her bio and didn't agree with other things, but the impression of the movies was very adorable.

[theonewhitstyle]

love it!