Mary was the first star to put her hands and footprints at Grauman's Chinese theatre in hollywood

To all the people who are criticizing this video and Ms. Pickford: This is 1976, color was practically new, fashion was different and television and trends certainly were as well. Why do you hate? She was old, she looked lost and that is part of being old. Does that take away her achievements? United Artists, Motion Picture Retirement Fund and over 150 films. She was a pioneer, a hard working woman who came from nothing and reached the stars. Nothing can humiliate her anymore and haters will hate, that's what they do and while this video doesn't insult her memory your hateful comments sure do.

@joancarlestomas

9 жыл бұрын

eneri008 If I'm one of the haters people is referring to, I have to say I don't recognize myself in my previous comment. I respect the professionals, and I love their legacy. I just found a little creepy that presentation the way it was staged.

@MegaBarc

8 жыл бұрын

eneri008 loved your words, indeed...

@MegaBarc

8 жыл бұрын

eneri008 loved your words, indeed...

@MegaBarc

8 жыл бұрын

eneri008 loved your words, indeed...

@jayiijay

7 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said. Pickford was an all-time great, a true feminist, one of the most important women in film history.

Every American actress who as won an OSCAR owes it to this great lady. She stated it all for women in film.

@ccmp18

6 жыл бұрын

Kathi Papaleo she was the second actress to win an Oscar the first was Janet Gaynor

@bobthebear1246

6 жыл бұрын

Kathi Papaleo *started

@armaldoleite

6 жыл бұрын

Kathi Papaleo p

@terrywhelan6651

5 жыл бұрын

Kathi Papaleo Another great Canadian!

@josephdockemeyer4807

5 жыл бұрын

Terry Whelan wasn't she a British citizen first then received her American citizenship in 1920 when she married Fairbanks? After that she obtained duel citizenship with Canada.

4:08 adorable how her actions, eye movement, mannerisms still remained even after silent film era 😍

@rustyruss2962

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed that such Lovely Lady tho

@lindaclark9925

Жыл бұрын

On her guard, as we all should be. It was the ....persons, and their beliefs! - that made these movies, you do realize ? Rip Mary Pickford

It’s a crying shame that this beautiful home no longer exists. It’s great however, that they didn’t wait until she was gone to honor her. There is an old song that goes: “Give me the roses while I live”. So many times people go unappreciated while they are still living.

@thesummerof1968

2 жыл бұрын

It is a crying shame! I blame that untalented Pia Zadora for destroying it. Why buy it if she didn't like it? If only she was smart enough to turn the house into a museum, Pia could have made a fortune! That house was pure Hollywood history. So very sad.

@junegirl9378

2 жыл бұрын

@@thesummerof1968 I totally agree!!!

@ConnieHeartsValentino

25 күн бұрын

@@thesummerof1968 Exactly. And that portrait of Ms. Pickford was absolutely beautiful.

at 80 years she is still glowing. beautiful. stunning. a natural beauty.

@RollinRocker

7 жыл бұрын

Nearly 84

@CasiodorusRex

5 жыл бұрын

84. She was 84 in this video.

@joanthemad5894

4 жыл бұрын

She aged amazingly

@Takerbdn99

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, in 90% has a plastic surgery. As you can see on this video, she struggle to move her face. Maybe that's why she was not appear in public so long after her career. Beauty medicine in her time was far away from level that we have right now.

@GypsyFairy85

3 жыл бұрын

@@Takerbdn99 Her struggle to move her face as you put it, most likely was from a stroke.

In terms of importance, she is the female equivalent of Chaplin. She is the most important woman in the entire history of film. Without her, there would be no movies as we know them. She started it all. She was very ill, and she did have an alcohol problem. I don't think there ever was a question of her attending. She was in a wheelchair and she didn't want anyone to see her like that. So this presentation was arranged. it was a richly deserved honor, many the next day wrote awful articles because they felt she had been exploited but I don't think that was the case.

@telephilia

7 жыл бұрын

A recent documentary that aired on TCM leaves no doubt about her place in the highest pantheon of Hollywood stars along with very few others. And if she was ravaged by age and other problems, well, that's a big bunch of people.

@johnj2763

6 жыл бұрын

Yes she did have an alcohol problem. It ran in her family. Her father was an alcoholic as were her sister and brother. Both siblings were also movie stars of the time but both died in the early 30's from alcohol related causes.

@agrey2986

5 жыл бұрын

I have not study it enough but from what I could tell it was bad timing when her transistion to talkies was happening and she seemed to retire relatively early soon after. She was also 41 and had way more than enough money. Also the transistion happened during the peak of the Great Depression. There was more money and success working as a producer too and so she probably just decided not to go down like a old wash up movie star (like Madonna) and go out with her dignity intact in the Hollywood scene. She didn't retire until 1956 from producing movies from United Artists.

@angelaloof852

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnj2763 Wow, that is so sad and so young to die from alcohol related damage.

@MonicaRodriguez-uj3di

4 жыл бұрын

@@agrey2986 I think she was very cute ,those big eyes and small mouth ,she definitely had a baby face 😊

Interesting fact: the man that gave the Oscar to Mary is still alive (Walter Mirisch, 97 yo)

@dylanpsinakis7930

3 жыл бұрын

Wow what an accomplishment😃😍😍😍

@JarredWrightMusic

3 жыл бұрын

98 now and still alive

@malfattio2894

3 жыл бұрын

He could have watched silent movies in the cinema as a young child

@multoc

3 жыл бұрын

2021 and Still alive

@Damon759

3 жыл бұрын

He’s 99 now. He turns 100 in November!

I love how she's still mugging with all the silent film facial expressions. She was, deservedly, treated like Hollywood royalty here. It was a thrill to see inside Pickfair.

@MarthaMansbridge

4 жыл бұрын

Which is precisely why she never made it in the talkies - she couldn't adapt, she didn't seem to even want to - you can't claim to be a co-creator of an art form like the movies (she really wasn't BTW) and then get snobbish as the technology moved on. Swanson managed to come back and make an absolute icon of a movie. Even Gish worked successfully until she was nearly 100, whilst always bemoaning the demise of Silent Film (though she did it incredibly humorously it has to be said), even Glady Cooper and Estelle Winwood were killing it into their 80's and 90's respectively. Pickford was arrogant, spoiled and self-important and self-destructive - don't be fooled by the doe eyed feeble old lady - she was a cow.

@camhamster3891

4 жыл бұрын

@@MarthaMansbridge You're right, she's no Gladys Cooper. Even Marie Dressler picked herself up, after being in straightened circumstances due to a flagging career and experienced a string of successes when she returned to the screen. That sort of strength, later in life, isn't all that common though.

@andrewthornhill7042

Жыл бұрын

I know people are going to hate this, but others have substantiated it: Mary became a drinker later in life. Certainly she was a pioneer for movies and women in film. Certainly she was talented beyond the technology available at the time. But even though she and Buddy had a very happy marriage up until the time she died, and she was feted and honoured as an actor and producer, I have heard her life wasn't entirely happy. So by the time she was presented with this Academy Award, Little Mary was as pickled as an onion.

@tenderinterval

Жыл бұрын

​ @Martha Mansbridge Why are there so many Mary Pickford haters... You are literally insane. Why do you care this much about shitting on a woman who has been dead for several decades now? Did you know her personally? Are you about 120 years old?

@thenewcenturyhomeste

Жыл бұрын

​@@camhamster3891 I love Marie Dressler. I catch all the films of hers that I can.

What an incredible woman, she fiercely provided for her family ever since she was a little child and pulled them out of poverty. Mary Pickford is responsible for the invention of acting for the film, rejecting the horrible overacting pantomime style she found in the film industry and making it genuine and real. She's my hero!

@JJMHigner

2 жыл бұрын

Here here!!

@akrenwinkle

Жыл бұрын

@@JJMHigner If you mean "hear, hear!" I agree.

@degsbabe

8 ай бұрын

' incredible woman' no doubt. But, all that obscene opulence leading up to that frail bewildered small baggage....? Give me a break........

@here_we_go_again2571

8 ай бұрын

@@degsbabe The video was over "the top" but that is the way Hollywood used to be! *Everybody gets old .... and ... eventually frail* Mary Pickford was not a person who craved the spotlight. For her, it just happened. After her filming days were over, she retreated into a private life of family, supporting a few charities and traveling incognito with her husband. She had made the equivalent of almost 1 billion dollars and had invested it wisely.

@Chutney1luv

8 ай бұрын

She sure did! Mary was a genius!

This was a truly remarkable woman. She pioneered and grew up with the medium. As a child she was exposed to and worked with the giants of the industry; Griffith, DeMille, Chaplin, and Frances Marion. With next to no formal education- she formed her own production company, became a shrewd businesswoman, was one of the founders of United Artists- and became one of the most famous women of her generation. Sadly- alcoholism ran in her family. It killed her father and contributed to her brother's demise. In later years- she apparently fell victim to it, as well. Regardless- today, she is largely forgotten. She shouldn't be. She is one of the most pivotal figures in the history of film.

@mustakimrozak8299

5 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact : Mary Want Her Every Movie Is Burn Down . luckily They Not Do That .

@christinash2235

5 жыл бұрын

You forgot her sister Lottie. Who was also an actress, who Mary said was too ugly to be in film.

@mustakimrozak8299

4 жыл бұрын

@@christinash2235 she (Mary Pickford) Thought People Will Just Avoid Her Film So She Attempted To Destroyed Her own film before her death in 1979 . Elena Archer And Her Teammates Try To Restore The Film Print And It fortunately It was a success.

Mary Pickford earned her way, ALL THE WAY! She worked for what she had. True talent, she is immortalized for it. This is an old woman showing grace, something that seems to be lacking. Back only 37 years ago, 1980; nobody would dare criticize her! Not publicly. Your career would be over to do what people say publicly today about anyone. Its a shame that in 38 years after her death, this country has come to this, hating each other and no respect for one's opinion...

@karenhill3970

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel. ..its that why sometimes doesnt it??.but i choose yo think kind respectful honest noble people still out there....

@rustyruss2962

2 жыл бұрын

Nowadays all people scream is respect they wouldn’t know what respect was if it bitten them in butt people have NO MANNERS ARE RESPECT ANYMORE JUST BUNCH CRYBABIES.

Mary Pickford was on one of the founders of the Motion Picture Retirement Fund, in Woodland Hills, California. Many amazing elderly people from the Hollywood industry now call this beautiful place their home. Thank you Mary.

Mary Pickford was my cousin. A source of family pride.

@mattrowe9056

4 жыл бұрын

And Buddy was MY cousin. Very nice to meet you.

@PeterThieledigital

4 жыл бұрын

@G F Yes, it is me.

@PeterThieledigital

4 жыл бұрын

@G F Look at the spelling of my name.

@PeterThieledigital

4 жыл бұрын

@G F My family pronounces it: Theel

@dylanpsinakis7930

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!!!

Imagine going from this to Will Smith/Chris Rock in 4 decades? Not only the Oscar’s ceremony, but society’s class, has really taken a nosedive.

@garymarzuki8391

Жыл бұрын

From Riches to Rags

@SundaeExpress

Жыл бұрын

There were plenty of controversies at the Oscars back then too. And at least Black people are allowed in now.

@kllwc7772

Жыл бұрын

Lol really ? How did it take for the Oscar’s to acknowledge female directors/black/Asian actors ? What will did was infantile/toxic ,but let’s not pretend “society’s class has taken a nosedive “ when some some people are still not seen as equal 🌎

@philipdraper7284

Жыл бұрын

@@kllwc7772 I would counter that by asking for names of specific individuals who were robbed of an Oscar on the basis of gender, race, or sexuality. I’m not contending that bigotry had never been an issue in Hollywood but there are additional metrics you aren’t considering that are conveniently referred to as under-representation when you also have to look at -who was up for the nomination, the ratio of Male to Female directors, etc. It’s not always a cut and dry incident where you can blanket-ascribe a nefarious motive. Hattie McDaniel won best supporting for Gone with the Wind in 1940. If a section of the population is already under-represented, is it much of a leap to realize that this demographic under-representation would be reflected in something as specific and exclusionary as a wealthy awards show for the top 3% of the Hollywood food chain???

@kllwc7772

Жыл бұрын

@@philipdraper7284 Hattie won the award for a stereotypical role not for her acting per se.If one of the films by Oscar Micheaux had won and / one of the actress’s,that would have invariably shown how the academy were willing to embrace diversity & all that it means …

I agree she aged well. She still has those amazing eyes and such a sweet smile. It makes me sad that Pia Zadora tore down Pickfair. She robbed all of us from the chance to lay eyes upon the historic residence where so many early stars celebrated.

@bettagems9209

7 ай бұрын

Who is Pia Zadora?

@julianhermanubis6800

7 ай бұрын

​@@bettagems9209A talentless actress who was active in the early 1980s and heavily promoted by her husband, a Hollywood bigwig.

@lioness7582

5 ай бұрын

​@@bettagems9209exactly

@MilesBellas

Ай бұрын

"For her part, Zadora defended the decision: “If I had a choice, I never would have torn down this old home. I loved this home, it had a history, it had a very important sense about it and you can deal with termites, and you can deal with plumbing issues, but you can’t deal with the supernatural.”"

@MilesBellas

Ай бұрын

One night when her husband was out of town, Zadora heard a blood-curdling scream at night. It was her young daughter, who came running and crying about a woman staring at her in the bedroom. “She said, ‘Mom, I saw this very tall, white, ghost-ish woman standing above my bed when I woke up,” Zadora claimed. “My daughter described this apparition of this woman: She had a white gown on and she was looking at her and laughing.” Naturally, Zadora suspected it was just her child’s imagination or the stress of moving homes. However, it didn’t take long for her to start seeing and hearing strange things in the home herself - including the laughing woman. Legend has it that paranormal activity at Pickfair went all the way back to its original owners, Pickford and Fairbanks. The couple reportedly saw the spirit of a female servant multiple times. As time went on, others reported seeing a ghostly woman wearing white, a male spirit near the entrance, and another apparition carrying sheet music. But while previous owners apparently took these “ghosts” in stride, Zadora and her family couldn’t handle them.

Mary Pickford in 1976 still looked gorgeous ...

@mustakimrozak8299

5 жыл бұрын

unfortunately she died in 1979 cause by cerebral hemorrhage . It broke our heart .

@nondescript2892

Жыл бұрын

​@@mustakimrozak8299 after all those years of heavy drinking it's a miracle she survived that long

I don't know how old she is there but she looks fabulous!! You can tell the sound of her voice, she is a sweet lady who is very humbled and gracious by receiving her award. A very classy lady to the very end.

@JenniferBrigitteOpticalVortex

2 жыл бұрын

Mary was 84-years-young!

@williamevans9426

2 ай бұрын

'A sweet lady' - hardly. She treated her children appallingly and was tough as old boots.

@helenhines2712

2 ай бұрын

Really? I didn't know that about her. If that's really true I rescind my comment.

@sluggzmcgee6272

2 ай бұрын

@@williamevans9426 No kidding?? I never would've guessed. She seemed so sweet here.

She looks fantastic at 80! She seems to have had a stroke and had difficulty speaking at a regular clip but her charm still came through. Old movie stars never forget how to pose, do they? (her posing with her Oscar at the end).

Man this was AWESOME! I’ve never seen a film of hers. However, this was done with such grandeur. This is how you honor a legend. The Academy really needs to give the honorary Oscar during the telecast.

@stanedwards309

8 ай бұрын

Go watch one of her films, if you haven't already. She's a good actress, she helped write, produce and on occasion direct her projects.

After retiring from the screen, Pickford became an alcoholic and a recluse. In the 1960s and 1970s, she almost never left her house and refused to see most of her old friends. She was not in good shape by 1976, but pulled herself together as best she could for this extremely rare appearance in her later years.

@peppersander2457

3 жыл бұрын

@BC Dude Cool story, great memories for you :)

@HumanResource-sp6fg

3 жыл бұрын

I am not really sure why you wrote such garbage.

@Lampshade51

3 жыл бұрын

@@HumanResource-sp6fg If you are reacting to what I wrote, it has been well documented by several reliable sources that she was an alcoholic in later life. Do not misunderstand that I am saying that to question her legacy and importance in the art of the cinema. She certainly deserves every accolade.

@michaelanthony9773

3 жыл бұрын

@BC Dude. It's ashame what they did to the place after her death.

@chucksellers8422

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lampshade51 Thanks for clearing things up because I was thinking that's what a nasty troll would say.

She looks so sweet receiving her award. Truly a shame that lovely home was torn down.

@mustakim7876

5 жыл бұрын

Noooooooo Not Pickfair It Must Be A Museum

@DavidThomas-tw6my

4 жыл бұрын

Bernie Tinirau what ????????!

@jeanoboyle2439

4 жыл бұрын

@Samuel Rummer ... so her hubby could build their own palace 😣😥😪😫

@valentinasantos1474

4 жыл бұрын

The vulgar Pía Zadora did it? Not surprising to me.

@karenhill3970

4 жыл бұрын

Yes very honorable , respectful , WONDERFUL...WHAT????!!!! Her home torn down???? Makes me sick..WHY???i kno lots people sick over it im sure like other Hollywood legends homes..Developers!! ??😡😡😡💔💔💔💔💔Can California / Hollywood do something??

Mary Pickford - screen legend.

I did not expect this to bring tears to my eyes. Even before I saw the one welling up in hers. She was a beautiful lady (despite the spiteful comments I'm seeing here) and it was touching to finally hear her voice.

An Amazing woman. She came from nothing and and succeeded beyond most of our wildest dreams. For all her flaws she was a true star who was there at the birth of Hollywood. She is a poster child for the American Dream. She may have been Canadian but she came to U.S and made her dreams come true.

@nicholasalonzi8268

8 жыл бұрын

+Minnesotaman68 What's wrong with being Canadian? You said it like it was a bad thing

@Minnesotaman68

8 жыл бұрын

+Nicholas Alonzi nothing wrong being a Canadian in her time. My observation meant she came to the United States and achieved the American Dream as so many come here to do.

@pickfairguy

7 жыл бұрын

Minnesotaman68

@Libertyjack1

7 жыл бұрын

Canada had no film industry back in post WW1 period, at all. Canada was only a self ruling country for 50 years. The population was about 7 million people, spread from coast-to-coast. While they were proud of their land and heritage, people's sense of being 'Canadian' wasn't very well self-defined, except in the lives they lived, which was mostly rural. The cities and towns were growing, but they generally supported their hinterlands, with increasing quantities of industry coming via Britain and (soon to surpass) the United States, which was based on Canada's richness in natural resources. In such circumstances, it is no wonder that when 'Canadians' wanted to be worldly, they usually associated themselves to their country of parentage, or to the glamour of it's chief colonizer, the British Empire (the Quebecois (i.e. most French Canadians) were, because of their long developed history and concentrated population, an exception to the rule). The United States were a new world power, representing youth, modernism and hope, so many Canadians identified, not so much politically as socially, with 'Americanism'. So when Canadians wanted to make it 'big', that was where they went. They still do today. When it came to film and performance arts, there was little choice but to leave. In fact, this is still somewhat true today, because the worldly center of modern English-speaking culture and finance is in the United States, and that is where an artist can be best marketed. Canadian artists today can find a niche that would allow them to remain in Canada, while making a reasonably high standard of living, but the opportunities aren't as good. However, before you folks in the States become too smug about this, American international importance really didn't start until the reparations following the Civil War, some 100 years after you became the United States of America. Prior to this, the United States was a pretty desolate place, with Britain (your main trading market) slowly lifting its post Revolutionary trading embargoes. Canada may not have the climate and inhabitable land to be a great superpower, but it does have a population which is just as enterprising and proud as the U.S., or anywhere else. The fact that they don't force their citizens to sell their homes for health care, and don't allow underprivileged urban areas to rot into dangerous slums doesn't count against them one damned bit. Please advise all your friends who support what has become of the GOP to put that one up their enema bottles.

@gossamerwings3632

7 жыл бұрын

Untrepid One...STFU !!!!!

she was adorable even when she was an old women

Pure class. Something that is severely lacking in Hollywood today.

@julianhermanubis6800

7 ай бұрын

​@@SundaeExpressYou're wrong.

@julianhermanubis6800

7 ай бұрын

@@SundaeExpress Are you seriously going to try to compare revolting creatures like the Kardashians to Mary Pickford or Lillian Gish? That's a bold strategy.

@julianhermanubis6800

7 ай бұрын

@@Hampton_Doubleday_Jr I think I am going to win if we do a point by point comparison of modern versus vintage actors. Emily Blunt is a fine actress, but, if you compare her to a similar topline vintage actress, Ida Lupino, Lupino was also a brilliant film director who directed several bona fide classics. And the worst modern actors and actresses are pretty dire indeed. When you call Chaplin a "revolting creature," you're probably bothered by some aspects of his personal life, rather than his talents on screen, which most critics are going to agree were indisputable. I don't care about the morality of actors, but their talents with their work. There are too many people who are "famous for being famous" in modern Hollywood.

@julianhermanubis6800

7 ай бұрын

@@Hampton_Doubleday_Jr You probably haven't seen a movie made more than 20 years past, so your opinions on this subject are likely completely worthless, Einstein.

@julianhermanubis6800

7 ай бұрын

@@Hampton_Doubleday_Jr That's ironic considering you have yet to construct a single argument to support any of your claims and you are very likely just trolling. Please slink away in defeat, loser.

Tears are welling in her eyes as she says “i will treasure it always”

well said -- when she looks at the Oscar and touches it and says thank you, near the end of the clip....god, it brings you to tears

Did you ever think, she is that woman who had seen the raise of Hollywood industry. She is the woman who had seen so many legends of his time including Chaplin. 💓

Unbelievable that Pia Zadora with one of her rich husband's knocked this famous beautiful house down, with all the famous people who'd been thru its doors, most countries would have given it protected status. Tellingly the new Zadora home when a visited the guest would be confronted in the foyer by a huge painting of Zadora in the nude. Money doesn't buy you class and as Fairbanks son said why buy the house if you intended to knock it down.

@reving19

10 жыл бұрын

She claims she did it over "ghosts". No kidding.

@haroldsgirl5043

10 жыл бұрын

reving19 True, she said that there were ghosts. Stupid b*tch to tear down that beautiful house. Her silly family should of just moved out.

@ladywhistledownton

8 жыл бұрын

Just another trashy talentless hollywood z llist rejected actress.

@haroldsgirl5043

7 жыл бұрын

true!

@ryanburgos9164

7 жыл бұрын

It was her house to do with what she wanted. Grow up, children.

2024 this Is very emotional.Mary Pickford was on my sticker book of old Hollywood when i was just a child. I was so fascinated by her beauty and her wonderful curls.For me, she will always be a friendly figure in all my life although i dont know why

How wonderful. She never lost her sweet expression. A true icon.

One of the most famous people ever to walk the face of the earth. She was HUGE in her time. Take the fame of today's top 10 stars then double it. That'll give you some idea how big she was. And now she's all but forgotten. All is vanity.

@blueheaven2135

6 жыл бұрын

Lynn Turman she will be remembered decades to come

@agrey2986

6 жыл бұрын

Shes not forgotten.

@dahmasdeals1710

4 жыл бұрын

Not forgotten.

@m.syauqiabdurahman2798

3 жыл бұрын

Mary Invented Star System In Hollywood . Without Her , Hollywood May Not Be The Same As what We looked today . Too Bad Some Millenials Jist ignoree her achievement and legacy for film industry .

@ahyan6681

3 жыл бұрын

Not forgotten just not well remembered

It is really sad that those who watched this when it aired only took away that "Mary got old." She looked no older than Chaplin looked when he received his honorary Oscar (no knock on Chaplin, whose clip still makes me emotional.) Props to Nicholson during his acceptance speech for reminding people of Mary's accomplishments.

I amazed at how contemporary she was in silent films. I never saw anyone that charismatic.

This makes me tear up to see those tears in her eyes. I'm sitting here in her home town, what we both called home, and she's in my thoughts. What a wonderful, legendary movie star. A true professional. Amazing.

America's Original Sweetheart , even though she was Canadian. She has done soo much for film, the industry would not be the same without her. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were the Original Brangelina . She is the legend of all legends.

There couldn't have been a better person to give the award to her than Walter Mirisch a nd how gracious of her to be thanking all the people she did so much to help. All the things she did that are in place today would fill a whole page or many pages, this is a star ! Mary we miss you more everyday.

Still Pretty, after all those years !

@blueheaven2135

6 жыл бұрын

love her

@MrJoeybabe25

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. She was very pretty!

@MonicaRodriguez-uj3di

4 жыл бұрын

I call her baby face beauty💞😊☝️☝️

The shame here is that we wait until people are very old or dead before we honor them.

@christinash2235

5 жыл бұрын

People didn't really start to realize Old Hollywood was gone until the 70s, is my understanding. The Golden Era lingered to the 60s. It does seem extremely weird that someone as substantial as Pickford wasn't honored ten or twenty years before this, but the 50s were the Golden Age still, people too self absorbed and too close to the 1920s to have perspective. The 50s to the 20s is like now to the late 80s. Do you see the problem now?

@paytonpowell1078

4 жыл бұрын

@@christinash2235 she was the second actress to ever win an Oscar, a founding member of the Academy, and a founding partner of United Artists. It wasn't that she didn't get her due but that she withdrew from public life after great personal tragedies occured towards the later part of her life.

@nimriffirmin4937

4 жыл бұрын

My grandfather told me some time before his death not to go to his funeral. And to remember to compliment people during their lives. Not at their graves...

@jeffallcock4561

4 жыл бұрын

Shameful indeed. Think of the great talents that went unrecognized by the Academy because they were already dead. This so-called academy is a travesty.

@Cassiopea456

4 жыл бұрын

At least they had true artists to give HONOUR to , and Oscars meant something special too, you have no idea, today people are over their head, complaining about nothing, born to destroy!

Very moving and well deserved. She was the first true movie star and her legacy should never be forgotten.

Pickford is a pioneer of the movies. Because of her and the others who set up United Artists, she paved the way for every future star to take a little control over their career as best they could. She is a great example of what a 'movie star' is. An exceptional talent!!!

wonderful and very friendly actress, unfortunately she went through difficult times with alcoholism and illness, but she is still very charismatic and cute

She was the most powerful woman in the entire history of the movies.

@anthonythomas6734

3 жыл бұрын

Hello how are you doing today???

Still attractive and dignified at that age. Great lady. Such a shame Pickfair was torn down.

@ladywhistledownton

8 жыл бұрын

Torn down by that talentless hack pia zadora,because it was "haunted".

@cutygirlscutygurls4180

7 жыл бұрын

Ruth-Elizabeth Page

@alexmeyer5260

7 жыл бұрын

Shame on her!

@uckmoo835

6 жыл бұрын

Its still there. Changed somewhat, but there. 1143 Summit Drive Beverly Hills.

@hollyodell2916

6 жыл бұрын

oh i wanted to see Pickfair D;

WOW Mary Pickford. OMG. Always read about her. Didn't know she would have been around during the time in this video. And PickFair. Only ever read about that place as well. And here we are going to the front door of the house and up the stairs and omg there she is! A living legend of the silent screen era! Sitting there in the living room of PickFair. ALL of old Hollywood has been entertained at this house. If only the walls could take us back to those star-studded get-togethers in this house!!! Can't believe this video. Amazing.

From what I've read, she never got over Douglas Fairbanks. He had asked her later on, for them to reconcile - but she declined his offer. After all, he had left her for the other woman, Lady Ashley. In later years, Mary became a recluse and voluntarily bedridden. She refused to leave her bed and had the servants wait on her and even carry her around until she could no longer walk on her own. She constantly thought of Douglas and his betrayal of their matrimony.

The most touching Oscar clip I have ever seen in my life!

She changed the tone of films and achieved great accomplishments at a time when women were not considered equal to men. She brought realism to the screen when other actors were simply doing pantomime. She was also the first female to be given screen credit and she also brokered for better pay opening the door for women in films. She was the first women to start an independent production company along with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, United Artists. Her great achievements earned this award. Her performance here was indicative of the time she grew up in. She never dropped character when on film, never. In her later years she was plagued with self doubt and drank heavily to ease the pain she felt inside from the feeling she had been rejected by the very industry she had helped create. It’s a sad ending for such a great woman but we are all human and not immune to the pain of feeling forgotten. She, however will not be forgotten, her story lives on.

if everyone who likes movies, took the time to watch a silent movie, maybe you would appreciate movies even more!!!!!!!!!!!!

@telephilia

7 жыл бұрын

For millennials it's often a task to even get them to watch a black and white talkie. In their lists of the greatest films, other than perhaps The Wizard of Oz, the history of movies seems to have begun with the first Star Wars

@johnmagill3072

7 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree with you more

@ksy4747

6 жыл бұрын

I'm 30 now, but when I was in my early 20's I was obsessing with the 1920s and had to scour the internet to find ANY silent films. My favorite channel was TCM and I always stayed up for the silent film viewing that they did at midnight once a week. I was over the moon when I finally got to watch "Cobra" on Amazon Prime because it starred my favorite silent film actress Nita Naldi! (even though she didn't get THAT much screen time) And it's very sad that some of my generation and especially kids born after the mid 90's cannot appreciate anything that doesn't involve crazy, over the top graphics (which, honestly, give me a headache), shallow plots and all action with no dialogues to speak of. You really CANNOT beat the classics! Everything is so over saturated and everyone is so over stimulated now, that it is hard to imagine how people would faint and had to be carried out after viewing "Psycho" I believe... but that's how it is.. I also remember when thrillers or horror films of 80's and 90's wouldn't even SHOW anything and everyone was petrified..now, it seems, its all about making it most gruesome and in your face, but the scariest is still the suspense. Anyways..rant over! hahaha

@hater38100

5 жыл бұрын

oh yes i watch silent movies of that era to

@jetblach

5 жыл бұрын

I'm a so called millennial and I own the Gold Rush, The Kid, Battleship Potemkin, Metropolis, Safety Last!, The Freshman, Speedy, Modern Times and City Lights. I have also seen but do not own, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Sunrise. There is hope for some of us, but definitely not all of us. I do have to utilize objective truths here. Chaplin, Fairbanks and Pickford founded United Artists by the way.

It saddens me seing mary like that.she still has the young mary look but looks so sad.i hope where ever she is shes happy again and the way she was 60 years before she got this oscar.and at her happiest momemt in time time Godbless you Mary you are not forgotten Amen.❤🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊📽📽📽📽🎬🎬🎬🎬🌟👏🌟🌟👏🌟👏🌟👏🌟👏🌹🌟💐🙏

My parents went to Pickfair once back in the mid 50's for a dinner party with Mary and Buddy. Everyone was served martini's from a large pitcher & the glasses were refilled constantly until everyone was quite tipsy. My parents loved it.

Mary Pickford, the importance of bê Mary Pickford. A fundamental Mother of the industry. Beauty, huge actress, a true Diva, but above everything a Lady. RIP Mary Pickford and thanks for ALL you've done while you were among us.

At the present time, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would not dream of interrupting their money generating ceremony in February to present an honorary Oscar to a pioneer of the industry, such as Mary Pickford, or Barbara Stanwyck, or Myrna Loy. They would be relegated to the November Governor's Awards, which are seen by virtually no one. It is a disgrace to the industry that the producers of the Oscars would rather have a twenty minute production number, or a monologue by Chris Rock, or Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, or Whoopi Goldberg, than honor those actors and actresses, directors, writers and cinematographers that made the movies great.

@musicaltheatergeek79

8 жыл бұрын

Hear, hear! Their reason for cutting the honorary awards from the telecast was to cut down on the running time, but that's complete hogwash, since the telecast still runs overtime. All they did was fill in the vacancies with pointless musical numbers and montages that have nothing to do with the movies being honored that year.

@bryanismyname7583

5 жыл бұрын

However, one advantage of the separate ceremony is that each artist is now given longer tributes and has time to make their own speech without interruption. The Academy posts these events on KZread every year.

@justthink5854

5 жыл бұрын

probably why nobody watches these modern nobodies and this tired show today.

@riverice7

5 жыл бұрын

Viewership is down year after year, Hollywood produces bad recycled talent. Recycled movies and just trash all around.

@christinash2235

5 жыл бұрын

Um Mary Pickford is a foundational pillar of Hollywood. It's weird to compare her to ANYONE honestly. She had a level of influence on things that still exist today that she doesn't share with any classic actress. She was also the first world renowned mega star. She threw her money at buildings that are now historic landmarks in Los Angeles. Barbara Stynwick indeed. LOL.

Mary Pickford, Louis B Mayer, Mack Sennett, Jack Warner are all Canadians and Hollywood founders. Scores of actors like Faye Wray, Walter Huston, Yvonne DeCarlo, Marie Dressler, Norma Shearer and countless others. Pretty crazy.

When is her story going to be brought to the big screen.

@sjk6101983

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see that myself

@ahyan6681

2 жыл бұрын

I want to become an actor maybe ill direct, so I'll do it, if I can. I have an obssesion with Mary, mostly due to the fact that she is largley not remembered well, but never forgotten, like how can someone be that famous, do so many pioneering things and just be forgotten by people, it hurts me,

@garycooper7988

2 жыл бұрын

@@ahyan6681 i totaly feel what you mean, world is cruel. Good luck i hope you can make it one day.

@JJMHigner

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

The curls and the smiles hid a razor sharp mind and a will to match that of anyone. Most accounts of her paint a picture of a charming and elegant lady with a strong sense of fair play and a lady not afraid of anyone. This lady set the scene for every other actress to follow.

Class!...A Woman from an era that will never exist again!!..an artist, true to her craft!...humble/respectful/honored and grateful!....

I can't believe they don't telecast honorary awards anymore! I love watching Hollywood legends.

@keeganthorpe

4 жыл бұрын

They really need to bring it back.

@alejogeovanny

4 жыл бұрын

@Erin Walsh you wrong! They still do

@keeganthorpe

3 жыл бұрын

WillyV it’s a separate ceremony held a couple of weeks before the actual telecast. It’s been that way for some years now.

@scottmoore1614

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly, they just don’t have legends like they used to!

@suave-rider

Жыл бұрын

@@scottmoore1614 Robert Redford?

She had balls! She also had Douglas Fairbanks Sr. What a life she had and what a woman!

@anthonythomas6734

3 жыл бұрын

Hello how are you doing???

Love Mary Pickford's silent films! She was the QUEEN! This video made me cry.. it's so emotional! Thanks for posting this!

She still looks beautiful. A class act.

What a beautiful, classy, talented lady! She accepted with such a gracious spirit. Her husband, Buddy Rogers, was equally talented, classy, and a well known humanitarian, They were married for 42 years until her death in 1979. Thank you for posting.

When she,was married to Douglas Fairbanks he was such a catch! Handsome, physically fit, funny to the bone and and they were best friends with Charlie Chaplin. I watched on TCM a documentary on Pickford and the beginning of silents. I loved all those early footages of Mary, Douglas, D.W. Griffith, Chaplin, what a way to shape the world but through acting and passion for it!

@anthonythomas6734

3 жыл бұрын

Hello how are you doing today???

She was even adorable in her elder years ❤️🥰

One of the greatest talents ever--and such a dynamic woman.

OMG She wasn't a alcoholic! She was 84 yrs old here! Damn can this woman just not be old?! Get your fact's straight! Fairbanks was the alcoholic not her. Y'all disrespect her memory by saying she had an addiction problem when she never did. She died 3 yrs after this. With all she's achieved in her life & the road's she's paved for actresses & movie's by that time she deserved to sit at home & them come to her. When I'm 84 I guarantee I won't be doing a damn thing I don't want or can't do. It's so annoying when people post comments when they don't know what they're talking about. Love & Respect this woman! And anyone who loves movie's should have mad respect for her. If it wasn't for her movie's wouldn't be what they are today. RIP Mary Pickford

@proofofalifetime488

6 жыл бұрын

Wikipedia says that she became an alcoholic after silent films were over and times changed, but who knows.

@mustakimrozak8299

5 жыл бұрын

@@proofofalifetime488 I think she less alcoholic . What happened when Fairbanks died are she hate him during funeral .

@brule1961

5 жыл бұрын

Yes she was. Her sister died at 43, and her brother at 36, from alcoholism. Unfortunately it ran in the family.

@MonicaRodriguez-uj3di

5 жыл бұрын

@@brule1961 well most likely but even if she was a addict to alcohol she had her reasons. I agree on some things run in the family, I could easily become addicted to cigarettes and I like them but I'm too scared of cancer it's like saying "here comes the boogeyman "my grandpa my dad's dad is a big time smoker and I noticed that when I first tried a cigarette, you bet I felt like I seriously liked it, not a good like though, its really bad for the health

She was such a Cool Canadian...She never did take out American Citizenship and insisted that she had Canadian Citizenship all her life right to the end...She was from Downtown Toronto...God Bless you Mary born Gladys Marie Smith...I am suprised we don't see her movies anymore even in the Movie Art House...Hug to Mary :)

She's so cute, well-deserved honor!

I think she's darling!

The Academy ought to let go of some of the silly animated pieces in the telecast and go on location to present the life time achievement award to Doris Day in 2017!

@MarcusDaGrand

7 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful idea!

@erinwalsh7318

7 жыл бұрын

Mary Pickford?

@diva1675

7 жыл бұрын

Phoenix Swanson What hasn't she achieved???

@bryanismyname7583

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, the rules stipulate that honorees must agree to accept the award. Doris Day keeps turning them down, despite the fact that she accepted her honorary Golden Globe in person in 1989. Of course now she's 96 years old.

@angelaloof852

5 жыл бұрын

@@bryanismyname7583 I read that she wants to be remembered as she was when she was young.

Mary---a true treasure of the movie industry !!! RIP, Mary.

There's no question of who were the most popular stars of all time- Pickford, Fairbanks, Swanson, Chaplin... or the so-called stars of today.

@mustakim7876

5 жыл бұрын

Pickfairswacha . Pickford Fairbanks Swanson And Chaplin .

@kellycannobbio746

5 жыл бұрын

One of my favorites is Buster Keaton! All ahead of their time! ❤️

@JJMHigner

2 жыл бұрын

Or all the real stars that Madonna sang about in her song Vogue!

Oh geez, that moved me to tears...just lovely 🌹

Very touching.

Mary Pickford is a true legend of the silent era. It is a pity that pickfair was demolished. Why was it not heritage listed? it is a terrible shame that this piece of history was destroyed.

What people should take into consideration is the fact that she was a silent screen actress. A time when actors used their facial expressions to convey emotions without words.This required exaggerated eye and head movements. Plus she was ancient. I would much rather see this than the sad sad decrepit condition of Bette Davis in THE WHALES OF AUGUST any day. Mary, you rocked it gal!

@r.v.3540

6 жыл бұрын

Bette was cast alongside legendary silent siren, Lillian Gish. It's interesting to note that the former looked so elderly, she portrayed Gish's older sister. (!)

@bryanismyname7583

5 жыл бұрын

Davis had a stroke. That she could still give a wonderful performance after that is amazing!

@brule1961

5 жыл бұрын

@@r.v.3540 Lillian Gish was a dear friend to Mary, and one of the few people Mary would let visit her in her final years.

@christinash2235

5 жыл бұрын

Why you have to hate on Bette now?

@caraqueno

Жыл бұрын

@@bryanismyname7583 No one mentioned presence of Ann Sothern in "The Whales of August", who not only was a legend in her own right and a contemporary of Bette Davis, she was the only member of the cast nominated for an Oscar. She looked more youthful than anyone else there.

A star, pioneer of movie making and worthy of the award. Seeing Pickfair in all its glory was a treat.

What a beautiful tribute! Thank you for the upload.

Oh my gosh....She is such a CHARM...

We miss you, Mary.

@mustakimrozak8299

5 жыл бұрын

Who Call Mary America Sweetheart First ? is It A. D.W Griffith B. Adolph Zukor

She never lost that sparkle in her eye. So beautiful.

She's gesticulating and giving facial expressions like she's still in front of the cameras acting out a scene in a silent movie.

This is just beautiful, when you had real movie stars.

Que bom que temos a internet pra ver esses momentos

Been a fan since i first seen her face from a silent film before I was !0-it was perfect to draw-the more I learned about her the more I admired her as a great woman and person.R.I.P Mary love you.

I love her more than words can express. Such a shame what happened to that beautiful home.

Mary Pickford is a true talent forever.

It was very moving to see tears in her eyes as she accepted her Oscar! She knew in the end that she had not been forgotten. Lovely woman.

She was such a wonderful actress that was a pioneer in the silent movie industry. Thank you for sharing these wonderful memories of her with all of us!

A very Great LADY !

I love her so much x3

one of the very first movie idols

@christinash2235

5 жыл бұрын

The first.

Pickfair is gone now so it is a great pleasure to see it as it was. Seeing Mary Pickford in the home she loved is wonderful.

God Bless Maty Pickford and all silent movies era

@mustakimrozak8299

5 жыл бұрын

Lillian gish and Mary Pickford meet again in heaven .

What a precious piece this is. May she RIP, she was a talent ahead of her time.

@MarthaMansbridge

4 жыл бұрын

Really? because she never stopped moaning that the movie didn't stick to the old-fashioned, silent format - ahead of her time? She was stuck in the past from the minute she realised people had to hear her, and her hysterical overacting would not cut it when actors began talking and didn't need all the histrionics of the silent era. Some stars of the time managed it, she gave up and turned to drink for the last 40+ years of her life as can be seen in the clip.

@johnvonundzu2170

5 ай бұрын

@@MarthaMansbridge Ahead of her time? Nope she was massively of her time (c. 1910-25) and that was her problem. Tastes changed and she couldn't.

Mary a pioneer, a force of greatness. Thank you.

@anthonythomas6734

3 жыл бұрын

Hello how are you doing today??

Oh my gosh! She is as beautiful in this clip as she ever was!

@anthonythomas6734

3 жыл бұрын

Hello how are you doing today???

Why is she so underrated ? She was contributing at the birth of the golden Age of Hollywood !