American Experience Season 17 Episode 6 Mary Pickford 2004
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Profiling Mary Pickford, the silent-screen "sweetheart" who blazed the trail to Hollywood and became "America's first superstar." Pickford (1893-1979) was also an astute businesswoman: She founded United Artists with Charlie Chaplin and her husband-to-be Douglas Fairbanks. But, as filmmaker Sue Williams stresses here, there was no glorious sunset. As Pickford biographer Eileen Whitfield puts it, she was "the first has-been created by film."
- Released: 2005-04-04
- Runtime: 55 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars:
- Director: Cameo George
- Source: CWR-CRB
