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Mary Pickford was Hollywood's first superstar and one of the founders
of the Academy. In this lavish 256-page tribute, her enormous and
wide-ranging body of work is illustrated with fabulous film stills,
rare production shots, and personal photographs - most never before
published - from the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library.
Today's audiences - even the Hollywood film industry which she
helped create - have little knowledge of Pickford's films, let alone
of her enormous behind-the-scenes power as one of the art form's
pioneering producers and cofounder of United Artists. This first
illustrated filmography of Pickford's career accords her achievements
the recognition they deserve. Noted film historian Kevin Brownlow
(The Parade's Gone By...and Behind the Mask of Innocence)
draws on interviews with Pickford and her circle to provide entertaining
film-by-film commentaries full of wonderful anecdotes about the
silent era.
Robert Cushman, Pickford expert and curator of the Academy's Roddy
McDowall Photographic Archive, selected the photographs for the
book and offers an insightful introduction.
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Mary Pickford Rediscovered is available at Amazon.com
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