American Experience
Season 17 Episode 6 - Mary Pickford
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
Profiling Mary Pickford, the silent-screen "sweetheart" who blazed the trail to Hollywood and became "America's first superstar." Pickford (1893-1979) was also an astute businesswoman: She founded United Artists with Charlie Chaplin and her husband-to-be Douglas Fairbanks. But, as filmmaker Sue Williams stresses here, there was no glorious sunset. As Pickford biographer Eileen Whitfield puts it, she was "the first has-been created by film."
Episodes in Season 17
1
RFK (Part 1 & 2)
55 min
2
The Fight
55 min
3
Fidel Castro
55 min
4
Building the Alaska Highway
55 min
5
Kinsey
55 min
6
Mary Pickford
55 min
NOW PLAYING
7
The Great Transatlantic Cable
55 min
8
The Massie Affair
55 min
9
Victory in the Pacific
55 min
10
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
55 min
11
Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
55 min
