After previously working at Biograph, both actress Mary Pickford and director Thomas H. Ince moved to a company founded by Carl Laemmle-who would later form Universal Pictures-with the initials IMP ...

After previously working at Biograph, both actress Mary Pickford and director Thomas H. Ince moved to a company founded by Carl Laemmle-who would later form Universal Pictures-with the initials IMP ...

Mary Pickford in a Pasatiempo sand trap, while Buddy Rogers looks on. (Photo courtesy Pasatiempo Historical Foundation collection) Buddy Rogers at Pasatiempo with Mary Pickford wearing a Santa ...

There were murmurs upstairs. Then Rogers walked slowly down the white steps to his visitor beneath the portrait of Mary Pickford in the spacious living room. He shrugged and shook his head.

DeMille. But when its star Mary Pickford was asked which tree she wanted, she refused them all, indicating only the smallest redwood sprout for her honor, too small to ruin with a plaque.

DeMille. But when its star Mary Pickford was asked which tree she wanted, she refused them all, indicating only the smallest redwood sprout for her honor, too small to ruin with a plaque.

This would star America’s Sweetheart herself, Mary Pickford, the first film star to be known by name. Back in 1905, Pickford played a freckled boy on stage in Hal Reid’s play “The Gypsy Girl ...