Big eyes, a luscious mouth, Oscar-winning star of dozens of movies, fame on an enormous, worldwide scale, the daughter of actor parents, a feisty, independent and ambitious nature, one half of an enviously beautiful Hollywood power couple, trailed by fans and paparazzi.
Sounds like Angelina Jolie, right?
Actually, it also describes the woman who, many years earlier, when movies were black-and-white, emotionally gut-punching and entirely silent, staked her claim as “America’s sweetheart” and paved the way for Jolie, for Brangelina, for Hollywood as we know it: Mary Pickford.
You may hear Pickford’s name more and more these days,...
Sounds like Angelina Jolie, right?
Actually, it also describes the woman who, many years earlier, when movies were black-and-white, emotionally gut-punching and entirely silent, staked her claim as “America’s sweetheart” and paved the way for Jolie, for Brangelina, for Hollywood as we know it: Mary Pickford.
You may hear Pickford’s name more and more these days,...
- 9/4/2012
- by Solvej Schou
- EW - Inside Movies
In the early days of movies, Mary Pickford was the original "America's Sweetheart." Now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Mary Pickford Foundation are partnering on a multi-year initiative to bring fresh attention to the Oscar-winning actress and her girlish charm in such films as "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" and "Pollyanna," Academy CEO Dawn Hudson said Tuesday. The partnership will include an annual silent film screening, silent film preservation initiatives and the digitization of parts of the Academy's collection of her films. To kick off this partnership, and to...
- 8/14/2012
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Late acting legend Mary Pickford is returning to the big screen as the subject of a new biopic produced by Al Pacino's daughter.
Producers at Poverty Row Entertainment have won the rights to Eileen Whitfield's biography Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood, and now studio bosses are hoping to recreate the Pollyanna star's life story in a new movie about her career and marriage to screen idol Douglas Fairbanks.
A statement released by company executives Julie Pacino and Jennifer DeLia reads, "With no intention of creating a conventional biopic, we will use the language of film to hopscotch through time, in order to tell the story of a woman so ahead of her time who was living one of the most romantic love stories of all-time.
"Mary Pickford's story is one of intense emotion, astute intuition, dedicated artistry, and about the creation of Hollywood."
Pacino and DeLia, who will direct the film, are hoping to sell the project to financiers at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in France.
Casting has yet to be announced.
Producers at Poverty Row Entertainment have won the rights to Eileen Whitfield's biography Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood, and now studio bosses are hoping to recreate the Pollyanna star's life story in a new movie about her career and marriage to screen idol Douglas Fairbanks.
A statement released by company executives Julie Pacino and Jennifer DeLia reads, "With no intention of creating a conventional biopic, we will use the language of film to hopscotch through time, in order to tell the story of a woman so ahead of her time who was living one of the most romantic love stories of all-time.
"Mary Pickford's story is one of intense emotion, astute intuition, dedicated artistry, and about the creation of Hollywood."
Pacino and DeLia, who will direct the film, are hoping to sell the project to financiers at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in France.
Casting has yet to be announced.
- 5/4/2012
- WENN
The great movie pioneer D.W. Griffiths once said “we do not want now and we shall never want the human voice with our films.” Shame he failed to realise that film-making is a technical medium that will always develop. In the last 100 years we have had the introduction of colour, trick photography, 3D and CGI, among other numerous innovations such as CinemaScope - and even Smellovision. But none of these compare to the most revolutionary of cinematic changes: sound.
The silent era of the twenties holds little more than curiosity-value for many modern film fans. Other than a few notable exceptions such as Nosferatu (1922) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925), it’s become a long-forgotten part of cinema history. But back then we had the Brad Pitts and Angelina Jolies of their day! Big stars and talented actors who sadly failed to survive the test of time.
The coming of sound was controversial,...
The silent era of the twenties holds little more than curiosity-value for many modern film fans. Other than a few notable exceptions such as Nosferatu (1922) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925), it’s become a long-forgotten part of cinema history. But back then we had the Brad Pitts and Angelina Jolies of their day! Big stars and talented actors who sadly failed to survive the test of time.
The coming of sound was controversial,...
- 3/7/2012
- Shadowlocked
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