

This allowed her to dictate the terms of her contracts-power she seized and consolidated. Griffith's Biograph Company, and became almost unimaginably popular. She switched from stage to film at seventeen, joining D.W. Born in Toronto in 1892, Pickford began acting as a child.

In reality, Pickford was a towering figure in movie history, central to the evolution of film acting and the development of the Hollywood motion picture industry.

That's how most people remember Mary Pickford. A woman who played children, wide-eyed and gamine, skipping about in frills and long curls. "A knockout of a biography."-Newsweek A silent-film star.
