Cast: Mary Pickford

Direction Kevin Brownlow · Michael Kloft

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Charles Chaplin · Sydney Chaplin · Walter Bernstein

Synopsis A fascinating documentary that explores the making of Charles Chaplin's first "talkie" The Great Dictator (1940) and draws many things that between Chaplin and Hitler had in common. The film contains colour home movie footage of the film's production which...

Direction Sam Taylor

Cast Mary Pickford · Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Sunshine Hart · Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Arthur V. Johnson · Linda Arvidson · Gladys Egan · Mary Pickford

Synopsis In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Kate Bruce · Adele DeGarde · Gladys Egan · Rose King

Synopsis While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken...

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Mary Pickford · Roy Stewart · Mary Louise Miller · Gustav von Seyffertitz

Synopsis Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Mary Pickford · Holbrook Blinn · Irene Rich · George Walsh

Synopsis The King of Spain falls for Rosita, a street singer in love with Don Diego, a penniless nobleman who defends her when she is arrested for singing a song jibing the King. Rosita and Don Diego are thrown into prison...

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Mary Pickford · Milla Davenport · Percy Haswell · Fay Lemport

Synopsis Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that...

Direction Marshall Neilan

Cast Mary Pickford · Ida Waterman · Herbert Standing · Conway Tearle

Synopsis Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do. Unity...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Mary Pickford · Charles Hill Mailes · Kate Bruce · Lionel Barrymore

Synopsis When Mrs. Harding dies, she leaves a mysterious letter to her pastor. The note tells how her cold, miserly husband worked her to death. She asks the pastor to administer a small trust which she has bequeathed her daughter so...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Mary Pickford · Elliott Dexter · Tully Marshall · Raymond Hatton

Direction Paul Powell

Cast Mary Pickford · Wharton James · Katherine Griffith · Helen Jerome Eddy

Synopsis When Pollyanna is orphaned, she is sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England home town are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna's incurable optimism - exemplified...

Direction Maurice Tourneur

Cast Mary Pickford · Madlaine Traverse · Charles Wellesley · Gladys Fairbanks

Synopsis Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position....

Direction Chuck Workman

Cast Peter Coyote · Robert Altman · Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle · Fred Astaire

Synopsis Documentary based on the first anniversary of the most important exporter of films in the world as it is Hollywood, this story is told by actors and actresses as well as writers and other people who made life in this...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast David Miles · Marion Leonard · Mary Pickford · Gladys Egan

Synopsis A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Mary Pickford · Leslie Howard · C. Aubrey Smith · Blanche Friderici

Direction Cecil B. DeMille · Joseph Levering

Cast Mary Pickford · Jack Holt · Raymond Hatton · Ben Alexander

Synopsis A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand. f

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Mary Pickford · Charles West · Charles Hill Mailes · Mabel Normand

Synopsis A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Mary Pickford · Henry B. Walthall · Francis J. Grandon · Kate Bruce

Direction James Kirkwood

Cast Mary Pickford · Owen Moore · Isabel Vernon · Georgia Wilson

Synopsis Based on the fairy tale: Cinderella is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, but is able to go to the royal ball through the help of the Fairy Godmother.

Direction Sam Taylor

Cast Mary Pickford · Douglas Fairbanks · Edwin Maxwell · Joseph Cawthorne

Synopsis In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. But Baptista will not allow the two to get married until his eldest daughter, the extremely headstrong Katherine, is betrothed. This task seems impossible because of Katherine's shrewish...