Coquette Articles
Mary Pickford's Oscars' Sale Blocked
A Los Angeles jury has decided that the Oscar statuettes that once belonged to silent-screen superstar Mary Pickford (above) — one for best actress for the dreary 1929 melodrama Coquette; the other an Honorary Oscar handed to her in 1976 — cannot be sold. Heirs to the estate of Pickford's third husband and widower, Charles "Buddy" Rogers (by way of his widow, Beverly Rogers, who [...]