Mary Pickford Articles

Mary Pickford At the 1936 Academy Awards ceremony, D.W. Griffith, by then a veteran with more than 500 shorts and features to his credit, became the first individual to win the equivalent of an Honorary Award for his body of work. Seventy-six years and 86 (my count*) body-of-work Oscar winners later — including last year’s James Earl Jones and Dick Smith — a mere nine [...]

Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy took a well-deserved swipe at Fox News while taking part at a press conference at London’s May Fair Hotel this past January 26. Please scroll down to check out the video. A little while ago, Fox Business Channel’s Eric Bolling said the following: "The Muppets are back and being terrorized by an evil oil executive in their new movie. [...]

Theodore Roberts, Mary Pickford in Marshall Neilan’s M’Liss; smaller photo: Joseph Yranski Mary Pickford was the definition of Movie Superstar from the early 1910s to the late 1920s. So popular and so powerful was Pickford that she, along with Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith, founded United Artists so as to have fuller artistic and financial control over her cinematic endeavors. Several years later, [...]

Robert Ryan, Caught (top); Joan Bennett, James Mason, The Reckless Moment (bottom) Located in Rochester, NY, the George Eastman House has been preserving movies for decades. Additionally, the Eastman House screens new and old movies at their Dryden Theatre. This week, blizzards notwithstanding, Rochester denizens will be offered two dark 1949 Max Ophüls dramas, Caught, starring James Mason, Robert Ryan, and Barbara Bel Geddes, and [...]