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Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997)
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A biography of the life and career of silent-film star Mary Pickford, known during her day as "America's Sweetheart"... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Credited cast) | Whoopi Goldberg | ... | Herself - Host / Narrator |
 | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | ... | Himself |
 | Jean Firstenberg | ... | Herself (Director, AFI) |
| Samuel Goldwyn Jr. | ... | Himself |
| Cammilla Johnson | ... | Herself (former child actress) (as Cammilla Jones) |
| Fay Kanin | ... | Herself (writer, producer) |
| Miles Kreuger | ... | Himself (theatre historian) |
 | Janet Leigh | ... | Herself |
 | Leonard Maltin | ... | Himself (film critic, historian) |
 | Roddy McDowall | ... | Himself |
| Robert Mitchell | ... | Himself (silent cinema organist) (as Bob Mitchell) |
| Charles 'Buddy' Rogers | ... | Himself / Various Roles (also archive footage) |
| Edward Stotsenberg | ... | Himself (President, Mary Pickford Foundation) |
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Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1999)
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
Very good documentary that covers Pickford's life from early childhood to her work with D.W. Griffith and to becoming the first movie star. Others topics include her marriage to Douglas Fairbanks and her eventual fall from the movies. The documentary is good because it doesn't sugar coat certain matters. What I found most weird about Pickford is that she bought the rights to all of her films so that she could destroy them. She was worried people would laugh at her and in this paranoia, she bought the rights but thankfully she didn't destroy them. Hosted by Whoopi with interviews by Leonard Maltin, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Janet Leigh and others.