FILM/SNEAK PEEK : ACADEMY HOSTING TRIBUTE TO PICKFORD.Byline: - Bob McCarthy She was America's original sweetheart - who was, ironically, born in Canada. Before Shirley Temple, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor Noun 1. Elizabeth Taylor - United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star; as an adult she often co-starred with Richard Burton (born in 1932) Taylor , Natalie Wood Noun 1. Natalie Wood - United States film actress (1938-1981) Wood , Sandra Dee, Annette Funicello, Julia Roberts or Drew Barrymore, there was Mary Pickford. A child actress who grew up to be Hollywood's leading lady, ``Little Mary'' possessed curly golden locks and an angelic face that played well with silent-film audiences until she was well into her 20s. Even in the days when studio bosses kept their stars under lock and key, Pickford managed to change employers at will. With each move, she requested - and received - more money and control over her movies. Her easy manner that came across on screen worked on studio bosses Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle , D.W. Griffith and Adolph Zukor, whose bidding wars for her services gradually raised her salary from $40 a week to $10,000 (and a signing bonus A signing bonus or sign-on bonus is a sum of money paid to a new employee by a company as an incentive to join that company. These are often given as a way of making a compensation package more attractive to the employee e.g. if the annual salary is lower than they desire. of $300,000) by 1916. The following year, Pickford was earning $350,000 a picture. In 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Griffith and Pickford together created United Artists Corp., and a year later she married the dashing Fairbanks. Their marriage gave Hollywood a royal couple and their palace, called Pickfair. Alas, their marriage wasn't always a happy one, and the couple divorced 17 years later after Pickford had retired from the screen. She married former co-star co·star also co-star n. A starring actor or actress given equal status with another or others in a play or film. tr. & intr.v. co·starred, co·star·ring, co·stars To act or present as a costar. Charles ``Buddy'' Rogers in 1937 (her third husband; her first husband was actor Owen Moore Owen Moore (December 12, 1886 - June 9, 1939) was born in Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath, Ireland. Along with his brothers Tom and Matt, he emigrated to America and they all went on to successful careers in motion pictures in Hollywood, California. ). With her considerable wealth, she began buying up her old silent films with the intention of having them destroyed after her death, but instead donated 50 of the 130 films she made for the Biograph studio to the American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase in 1970. She died in 1979. This remarkable actress and businesswoman is the subject of a new biography, ``Mary Pickford Rediscovered,'' written by film historian Kevin Brownlow and published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It contains 256 pages of anecdotes from the silent-film era, interviews with Pickford and her fellow actors and friends, and 232 images of ``Little Mary'' from the academy's archives and the Margaret Herrick Margaret Herrick, (September 27, 1902-June 21, 1976) was the librarian and director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Herrick is generally credited with naming the Academy Award an "Oscar", declaring the statuettes "looked just like my Uncle Oscar. Library. The academy also is sponsoring a photographic exhibition, ``Rare Pictures of a Hollywood Legend,'' and a screening of Pickford's ``The Hoodlum'' on May 21 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. The evening will feature a new print of the 1919 feature, the Robert Israel Orchestra playing the score, and film clips from other roles made famous by Pickford. Brownlow, who was won over by Pickford's performance in ``The Ragamuffin'' (1917), raves about ``The Hoodlum's'' attention to detail and the advances in early filmmaking that it represents. The story line - about a tycoon's change of heart after a visit to the slums - admittedly is dated, but the production itself isn't far from what today's audience might expect to see. ``The most exciting thing about the picture is the way it is made,'' Brownlow writes. ``Charles Rosher's camerawork is superb, and in this original tinted tint n. 1. A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation. 2. A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lessen its saturation. 3. A slight coloration; a tinge. 4. 35mm print, some of his closeups are almost three-dimensional.'' `` `The Hoodlum' is one of those silent films that makes you wonder quite what we've achieved since.'' Tickets to the May 21 screening are $5. Doors open at 7 p.m. The Goldwyn Theatre is at 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. . Tickets may be purchased at the academy during business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a , by mail or at the door. Call (310) 247-3600 for information. The ``Mary Pickford Rediscovered'' photo exhibit in the academy's Grand Lobby Gallery runs May 22 through Aug. 1. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and noon to 6 p.m. on weekends. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Mary Pickford's ``The Hoodlum'' will be shown May 21 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. |
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