American Experience · SEASON 17
Mary Pickford
Episode 6 · 2005-04-04
- Documentary
Episode overview
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."
55 minutes
Season 17 episodes
1. RFK (Part 1 & 2)2004-10-04
2. The Fight2005-01-24
3. Fidel Castro2005-01-31
4. Building the Alaska Highway2005-02-07
5. Kinsey2005-02-14
6. Mary Pickford2005-04-04
7. The Great Transatlantic Cable2005-04-11
8. The Massie Affair2005-04-18
9. Victory in the Pacific2005-05-02
10. The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?2005-05-09
11. Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst2005-05-23
