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Silent-film star. A woman who played children, wide-eyed and gamine, skipping about in frills and long curls. That's how most people remember Mary Pickford. In reality, as this compelling biography makes clear, Pickford was a towering figure in movie history, central to the evolution of film acting and the development of the Hollywood motion picture industry.
Eileen Whitfield recreates Pickford's life in meticulously researched detail, from her trying days in turn-of-the-century Toronto through her reign as mistress of Pickfair, the legendary Beverly Hills estate at which she and Fairbanks entertained the world's elite, to her sadly moving demise.
Along the way, Whitfield explores the intricate psychology that tied Pickford to her mother throughout her life and analyzes Pickford's brilliant innovations in the art of film acting, her profound influence on the movie business, and her role in the history of fame: once the best known woman in the world, she was the object of a mass adoration that prefigured today's cult of celebrity.
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Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood
August 2007, University Press of Kentucky
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in English
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Pickford: the woman who made Hollywood
2007, University Press of Kentucky
in English
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Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood
October 2000, Faber & Faber
Paperback
in English
- 1st Farrar edition
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Pickford: the woman who made Hollywood
1997, University Press of Kentucky
in English
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Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood
September 1997, University Press of Kentucky
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in English
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Filmography: p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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