Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1999)
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
Very good documentary that covers Pickford's life from early childhood to her work with D.W. Griffith and to becoming the first movie star. Others topics include her marriage to Douglas Fairbanks and her eventual fall from the movies. The documentary is good because it doesn't sugar coat certain matters. What I found most weird about Pickford is that she bought the rights to all of her films so that she could destroy them. She was worried people would laugh at her and in this paranoia, she bought the rights but thankfully she didn't destroy them. Hosted by Whoopi with interviews by Leonard Maltin, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Janet Leigh and others.
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
Very good documentary that covers Pickford's life from early childhood to her work with D.W. Griffith and to becoming the first movie star. Others topics include her marriage to Douglas Fairbanks and her eventual fall from the movies. The documentary is good because it doesn't sugar coat certain matters. What I found most weird about Pickford is that she bought the rights to all of her films so that she could destroy them. She was worried people would laugh at her and in this paranoia, she bought the rights but thankfully she didn't destroy them. Hosted by Whoopi with interviews by Leonard Maltin, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Janet Leigh and others.