Pickfair estate is now a museum of sorts used for film school classes. Its open to the public so you can go there and stroll the grounds. You can't go in the house but you can peer in through the windows. Back in the 70s and 80s I went there many times. Well worth visiting.
@@neilphelan145 Yes, is very sad she and her husband tore it down over a supposed ghost. It was a beautiful place, and Pickford is a true legend! I hope one day they recover all of her lost films.
Pickford and Brando actually have a lot in common. They both understood that stage work was very different from film work. That your face is magnified and amplified in a way that it is not on the stage. That any movement...gesture...even you're breathing is picked up and multiplied by 5 on film. There is no question Pickford understood the importance of an "inner life" for each character. Simply put, she applied thought and her own feelings to each scene - to each role - which Brando, Clift and Dean all did much later. She got there first. Watch the opening three minutes of this documentary and you can see she had a "process" that a Valentino, that a Pola Negri would never have understood. Clara Bow also, like Pickford, had something that her contemporaries did not. Depth. Pickford was the real deal.
@pellow22222 She was born in a house situated where the Sick Children's Hospital now stands on University Ave. in Toronto. There is a bronze bust of her outside the hospital. She visited Toronto from time to time during her retirement and did some long, interesting interviews (still extant) with the Canadian Broadcasting Company in the 1950s.
Some valid points there. I think he was overrated in The Godfather, but did some great scenes in "Last Tango in Paris" -- the wake scene with him and the body is a classic exercise for acting students, I heard. Plus, his scenes with Dennis Quaid and Jack Nicholson in "Missouri Breaks" were very well done, I think. A master's touch.
American Experience is the name of the program in question; it s public television program that airs on Monday for about 10 to 15 episodes a season here in America(Sept. thru May-June is the traditional television season in the United States). Very few people in the United States watch public television, since people prefer to watch traditional network programming and cable television.
Now the last remark I totally agree with. How many times has Queen Latifah played the same person with the head wobble and Julia Roberts the same character plus or minus a professional degree? I like them both but point taken.
@MiniArnie I don't remember the formal way of citing a documentary but it's a PBS documentary that aired in 2005 titled, An American Experience: Mary Pickford. An American Experience is a documentary series on PBS that does bios on a bunch of famous people.
I love silent film including Mary Pickford yet this PBS Doc. makes it sound as if the only thing she didn't do in Hollywood is walk on water. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed this Doc. but she was arm in arm with Chaplin and Fairbanks and at that time (not to sound chauvinist ) but it was still a mans world in American. Chaplin and Fairbanks I believe helped her a lot, But all said, I do love and miss her so. A pic of her is on my theater room wall among other greats. Great Actress. Ty 4 post
An interesting video but Mary Pickford never dreamt of stardom and acting,she had no other option when she was a child because her father deserted home and her mother put Mary and her siblings on stage to earn money.She was the head breadwinner when she was a teenager and had no chilldhood.She was a very good actress in silent films especially and she had an incredible presence on the screen but she lost her grace in talking movies. i think that she was made for silent films only like many actresses at that time. Anyway she lived very long and died at 87 years old in 1979 unlike her brother John or Jack Pickford who died in january of 1933 from neuritis and heavy drinking.
Yes, in the 1930s we forgot her. Her Taming of the Shrew was a box office dud, and in Hollywood, you're only as good as your last film. Me moved on to Claudette Colbert and never looked back. By 1940, pick Ford was something you did in an auto lot. As Mary hit the bottle.
@ranchai100 I don't think anyone is saying that a Canadian can't be famous, but it is a very small, discouraging market for developing individual talents. -"tarotworldtour"
Fascinating! Uprated and shared. My French husband is fascinated by all this.
Pickfair estate is now a museum of sorts used for film school classes. Its open to the public so you can go there and stroll the grounds. You can't go in the house but you can peer in through the windows. Back in the 70s and 80s I went there many times. Well worth visiting.
The estate was torn down years ago when Pia Zidora purchased it circa 1988
@@migue4793 You're probably correct. I based my comment on the fact that I used to go there often in the 70s and early 80s.
@@neilphelan145 Yes, is very sad she and her husband tore it down over a supposed ghost. It was a beautiful place, and Pickford is a true legend! I hope one day they recover all of her lost films.
Great clip! 5 stars! She had a big influence on the future of acting
Pickford and Brando actually have a lot in common. They both understood that stage work was very different from film work. That your face is magnified and amplified in a way that it is not on the stage. That any movement...gesture...even you're breathing is picked up and multiplied by 5 on film. There is no question Pickford understood the importance of an "inner life" for each character. Simply put, she applied thought and her own feelings to each scene - to each role - which Brando, Clift and Dean all did much later. She got there first. Watch the opening three minutes of this documentary and you can see she had a "process" that a Valentino, that a Pola Negri would never have understood. Clara Bow also, like Pickford, had something that her contemporaries did not. Depth. Pickford was the real deal.
love her 😊
@pellow22222 She was born in a house situated where the Sick Children's Hospital now stands on University Ave. in Toronto. There is a bronze bust of her outside the hospital. She visited Toronto from time to time during her retirement and did some long, interesting interviews (still extant) with the Canadian Broadcasting Company in the 1950s.
Some valid points there. I think he was overrated in The Godfather, but did some great scenes in "Last Tango in Paris" -- the wake scene with him and the body is a classic exercise for acting students, I heard. Plus, his scenes with Dennis Quaid and Jack Nicholson in "Missouri Breaks" were very well done, I think. A master's touch.
There's a bust of her at 555 University Avenue in Toronto, right out front of SickKids Hospital old entrance by the benches.
She was so beautiful
American Experience is the name of the program in question; it s public television program that airs on Monday for about 10 to 15 episodes a season here in America(Sept. thru May-June is the traditional television season in the United States). Very few people in the United States watch public television, since people prefer to watch traditional network programming and cable television.
Now the last remark I totally agree with. How many times has Queen Latifah played the same person with the head wobble and Julia Roberts the same character plus or minus a professional degree? I like them both but point taken.
Thanks for this video
Very interesting
@MiniArnie I don't remember the formal way of citing a documentary but it's a PBS documentary that aired in 2005 titled, An American Experience: Mary Pickford.
An American Experience is a documentary series on PBS that does bios on a bunch of famous people.
I love silent film including Mary Pickford yet this PBS Doc. makes it sound as if the only thing she didn't do in Hollywood is walk on water. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed this Doc. but she was arm in arm with Chaplin and Fairbanks and at that time (not to sound chauvinist ) but it was still a mans world in American. Chaplin and Fairbanks I believe helped her a lot, But all said, I do love and miss her so. A pic of her is on my theater room wall among other greats. Great Actress. Ty 4 post
Her signature is interesting. It indicates an equally masculine AND feminine personality.
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The name of the film between 00:32 and 00:37 is called Amarilly of Clothes Line Alley
@pellow22222 Yes she was born in Toronto
There`s an autographed photo of her in my local antique store for $300.00
An interesting video but Mary Pickford never dreamt of stardom and acting,she had no other option when she was a child because her father deserted home and her mother put Mary and her siblings on stage to earn money.She was the head breadwinner when she was a teenager and had no chilldhood.She was a very good actress in silent films especially and she had an incredible presence on the screen but she lost her grace in talking movies. i think that she was made for silent films only like many actresses at that time. Anyway she lived very long and died at 87 years old in 1979 unlike her brother John or Jack Pickford who died in january of 1933 from neuritis and heavy drinking.
Did you see Brando in "Streetcar named Desire"? That's acting, in case you missed it.
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shes canadian right?
i have a drama project and i wish this helps me, now i am ging to watch it hoping
tell u what i think after i have finished watching
No, I can name several famous Canadians. Jim Carrey, Alanis Morissette, and Mike Myers, to name a few.
How could i cite this in my project?
I watched this for my drama class.... 😑
Annika Robinson did it help?
By 1952, movie actors were still a bit theatrical, and Marlon Brando reinvented film acting, though.
Yes, in the 1930s we forgot her. Her Taming of the Shrew was a box office dud, and in Hollywood, you're only as good as your last film. Me moved on to Claudette Colbert and never looked back. By 1940, pick Ford was something you did in an auto lot. As Mary hit the bottle.
There’s no wonder she became insecure
adorable ..but she drank too much Angel Zuñiga once said to me
@ranchai100 I don't think anyone is saying that a Canadian can't be famous, but it is a very small, discouraging market for developing individual talents. -"tarotworldtour"