The 5-foot, blond-ringleted ''wee Mary Pickford'' was declared In ''Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood,'' Eileen Whitfield, who works at Toronto Life magazine,Įxpertly details the life and career of the woman rechristened Mary Pickford by the impresario David Belasco, as she gained fame for her nearly 200 films. The young Gladys Smith and her younger, less talented and less beautiful sister and brother (who referred to her as ''the Czarina'') performed, as often as their pushy, alcoholic motherĬould finagle bookings, in vaudeville and traveling theater troupes in their native Toronto and the United States. Ary Pickford - ambitious, controlling, money-mad, smart - began her ascent into the role of America's Sweetheart at the age of 7, when the death of her alcoholicįather left the family destitute.
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