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One of the first filmmakers in the world was a woman, Alice Guy-Blaché. The highest paid director of the silent era was a ...
This 1974 story from the L.A. Times revisits the legendary Mary Pickford in her later years, living in seclusion at her iconic Beverly Hills estate. Though once Hollywood’s brightest star ...
In addition to their own films, they co-starred in “Rosita” (1923, with Charlie Chaplin) and “The Gaucho” (1927, Pickford cameo as Virgin Mary). The couple purchased 18 acres for their ...
During the 1917 filming of “A Romance of the Redwoods,” the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce named a tree in Welch’s Big Tree Grove after its director Cecil B. DeMille. But when its star Mary ...
In addition to their own films, they co-starred in “Rosita” (1923, with Charlie Chaplin) and “The Gaucho” (1927, Pickford cameo as Virgin Mary). The couple purchased 18 acres for their ...
Marion Hollins died at age 51 in 1944, and Mary Pickford said, “I miss Marion dreadfully. It seems even more so as the months go by.
Cecil B. DeMille was coming to direct the 49er story “Other Men’s Boots.” This would star America’s Sweetheart herself, Mary Pickford, the first film star to be known by name.
DITMAS PARK — A 5,000-SQUARE-FOOD neo-Tudor home at 1320 Ditmas Ave. in Ditmas Park, built in 1910 for silent film star Mary Pickford, is listed for $2.99 million, according to the New York Post.
Picture this: a grand neo-Tudor residence in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park, built for the silent film siren Mary Pickford — the “Queen of Movies” — who never even unpacked her bags. Now, this ...
Firebirds captain Max McCormick and former Firebirds' goaltender Chris Driedger coproduced a film on the beach roller hockey league in Southern California in the 1990's. The film will premiere on ...