Pickford

1 Once I asked my mother why Grandmother and Grandfather Pickford never laughed.

2 “Playing complicated, extremely avant-garde music is our calling,” says the quartet’s violist, John Pickford Richards.

3 The galleries display a letter from Mary Pickford and a hotel register signed by Cecil B. DeMille and his wife, Constance.

4 But it's her face, sculpted in the tradition of a Mary Pickford or Mae Marsh – all Slavic cheekbones, porcelain skin and cool, intelligent eyes – that instantly mesmerises.

5 “Silent movie stars like Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin perfected the art of expressing emotion through gestures,” she says.

6 Separately, a caption, also using information from Getty Images, misstated the title of the film that the screenwriter Frances Marion and Ms. Pickford were working on.

7 Over the next four years of its existence it attracted such stars as Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and Tom Mix.

8 Pickford, known as “America’s Sweetheart,” was one of Hollywood’s earliest stars.

9 “She was like Mary Pickford in a silent movies,’’ he said.

10 The research, which drew on detailed surveys completed by 26 English theatres, was undertaken by playwright Fin Kennedy and Helen Campbell Pickford, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford.

11 Pickford, America’s first female movie star, was enormously popular.

12 Mary Pickford’s house belongs to a Filipino banker.

13 Photograph: Ann Pickford/Rex Features Lesser mortals turn out their attics and find a dead radiogram, a broken Teasmade and two perished hot water bottles.

14 That structure was to have been adjoined to its existing Mary Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, where the Academy preserves and stores film prints, on Vine Street, near Sunset Boulevard.

15 It was Mary Poppins versus Mary Pickford on the John Galliano runway, where the fluffy daintiness of the 1920s silent movie star was pitted against the sleek severity of the Edwardian nanny.

16 “Poor Little Rich Girl” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” done a generation earlier by Mary Pickford, were heavily rewritten for Temple, with show biz added to the plots to give her opportunities to sing.

17 In 1937, Rockwell Kent designed the Library’s stately bookplate, and in 1946, Mary Pickford donated her personal collection of films to the Library, adding to its growing store of them.

18 My mother said that Grandmother Pickfords one act of defiance in her whole life as a Pickford was in naming her.

19 Mary Pickford was a famous star of the silent movies.

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20 “I felt like I had found an adoptive grandmother watching over me,” Ms. Buss said of Ms. Pickford, who with Mr. Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D.W.

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