W. Griffith. William Fox establishes The Fox Film Foundation, which becomes one of Hollywood's foremost studios. Adolph Zukor woos Mary Pickford for his company, Famous Players, at $500 a week ...

We don't have anything like the variety of women that Mary Pickford played. You would need to take 50 Hollywood actresses and put them together to get an image as rich and as nuanced as Mary ...

Mary Pickford was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's silent era, and rose to become one of the most powerful women in America's film industry. Born plain old Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto in ...

It’s true many of Canada’s greatest talents — James Cameron and Norman Jewison, Mary Pickford and Sandra Oh, Michael J. Fox and Keanu Reeves, all the Ryans — went south to find fame and ...

Additionally, he helped cofound the United Artists Corporation with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks ... to the silent film star become one of Hollywood's most renowned actors.

3.Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford are credited with bringing Alfredo to the states after an Italian chef came up with it for his pregnant wife and the acting pair asked for the recipe on their ...