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Mary Pickford

1892 - 1979

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Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian and American film actress and producer. A pioneer in the American film industry with a Hollywood career that spanned five decades, Pickford was one of the most popular actresses of the silent film era. Beginning her film career in 1909, Pickford became Hollywood's first millionaire by 1916, and, at the height of her career, had complete creative control of her films and was one of the most recognizable women in the world. Due to her popularity, unprecedented international fame, and success as an actress and businesswoman, she was known as the "Queen of the Movies". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Pickford is the 25th most popular actor (up from 555th in 2019), the most popular biography from Canada (up from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Actor.

Mary Pickford was an actress in the early 1900s. She was one of the first people to become a movie star and she was the first person to be called a movie star.

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Among actors, Mary Pickford ranks 25 out of 13,578. Before her are James Stewart, Richard Burton, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Patrick Swayze, Louis de Funès, and Jackie Chan. After her are Amitabh Bachchan, Sarah Bernhardt, Sean Connery, Yul Brynner, Gene Hackman, and Morgan Freeman.

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Among people born in 1892, Mary Pickford ranks 7. Before her are J. R. R. Tolkien, Haile Selassie, Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, Edward Victor Appleton, and Louis de Broglie. After her are Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, Manfred von Richthofen, and Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Among people deceased in 1979, Mary Pickford ranks 3. Before her are Josef Mengele, and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. After her are Park Chung-hee, Giuseppe Meazza, John Wayne, Ernst Chain, Nino Rota, Dennis Gabor, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Renoir, and Jean Monnet.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Mary Pickford ranks 1 out of 1,622. After her are Leonard Cohen (1934), Justin Trudeau (1971), Leslie Nielsen (1926), Donald Sutherland (1935), Albert Bandura (1925), Mary Simon (1947), Celine Dion (1968), Christopher Plummer (1929), Jordan Peterson (1962), James Cameron (1954), and William Giauque (1895).

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Among actors born in Canada, Mary Pickford ranks 1. After her are Leslie Nielsen (1926), Donald Sutherland (1935), Christopher Plummer (1929), Jim Carrey (1962), Michael J. Fox (1961), William Shatner (1931), Pamela Anderson (1967), Catherine O'Hara (1954), Elliot Page (1987), Eugene Levy (1946), and Dan Aykroyd (1952).

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