I noticed that such Lovely Lady tho

On her guard, as we all should be. It was the ....persons, and their beliefs! - that made these movies, you do realize ? Rip Mary Pickford

It is a crying shame! I blame that untalented Pia Zadora for destroying it. Why buy it if she didn't like it? If only she was smart enough to turn the house into a museum, Pia could have made a fortune! That house was pure Hollywood history. So very sad.

@@thesummerof1968 I totally agree!!!

@@thesummerof1968 Exactly. And that portrait of Ms. Pickford was absolutely beautiful.

Wow what an accomplishment😃😍😍😍

98 now and still alive

He could have watched silent movies in the cinema as a young child

2021 and Still alive

He’s 99 now. He turns 100 in November!

Nearly 84

84. She was 84 in this video.

She aged amazingly

Actually, in 90% has a plastic surgery. As you can see on this video, she struggle to move her face. Maybe that's why she was not appear in public so long after her career. Beauty medicine in her time was far away from level that we have right now.

@@Takerbdn99 Her struggle to move her face as you put it, most likely was from a stroke.

Which is precisely why she never made it in the talkies - she couldn't adapt, she didn't seem to even want to - you can't claim to be a co-creator of an art form like the movies (she really wasn't BTW) and then get snobbish as the technology moved on. Swanson managed to come back and make an absolute icon of a movie. Even Gish worked successfully until she was nearly 100, whilst always bemoaning the demise of Silent Film (though she did it incredibly humorously it has to be said), even Glady Cooper and Estelle Winwood were killing it into their 80's and 90's respectively. Pickford was arrogant, spoiled and self-important and self-destructive - don't be fooled by the doe eyed feeble old lady - she was a cow.

@@MarthaMansbridge You're right, she's no Gladys Cooper. Even Marie Dressler picked herself up, after being in straightened circumstances due to a flagging career and experienced a string of successes when she returned to the screen. That sort of strength, later in life, isn't all that common though.

I know people are going to hate this, but others have substantiated it: Mary became a drinker later in life. Certainly she was a pioneer for movies and women in film. Certainly she was talented beyond the technology available at the time. But even though she and Buddy had a very happy marriage up until the time she died, and she was feted and honoured as an actor and producer, I have heard her life wasn't entirely happy. So by the time she was presented with this Academy Award, Little Mary was as pickled as an onion.

​ @Martha Mansbridge Why are there so many Mary Pickford haters... You are literally insane. Why do you care this much about shitting on a woman who has been dead for several decades now? Did you know her personally? Are you about 120 years old?

​@@camhamster3891 I love Marie Dressler. I catch all the films of hers that I can.

Kathi Papaleo she was the second actress to win an Oscar the first was Janet Gaynor

Kathi Papaleo *started

Kathi Papaleo p

Kathi Papaleo Another great Canadian!

Terry Whelan wasn't she a British citizen first then received her American citizenship in 1920 when she married Fairbanks? After that she obtained duel citizenship with Canada.

Fun Fact : Mary Want Her Every Movie Is Burn Down . luckily They Not Do That .

You forgot her sister Lottie. Who was also an actress, who Mary said was too ugly to be in film.

@@christinash2235 she (Mary Pickford) Thought People Will Just Avoid Her Film So She Attempted To Destroyed Her own film before her death in 1979 . Elena Archer And Her Teammates Try To Restore The Film Print And It fortunately It was a success.

eneri008 If I'm one of the haters people is referring to, I have to say I don't recognize myself in my previous comment. I respect the professionals, and I love their legacy. I just found a little creepy that presentation the way it was staged.

eneri008 loved your words, indeed...

eneri008 loved your words, indeed...

eneri008 loved your words, indeed...

Beautifully said. Pickford was an all-time great, a true feminist, one of the most important women in film history.

unfortunately she died in 1979 cause by cerebral hemorrhage . It broke our heart .

​@@mustakimrozak8299 after all those years of heavy drinking it's a miracle she survived that long

Daniel. ..its that why sometimes doesnt it??.but i choose yo think kind respectful honest noble people still out there....

Nowadays all people scream is respect they wouldn’t know what respect was if it bitten them in butt people have NO MANNERS ARE RESPECT ANYMORE JUST BUNCH CRYBABIES.

A recent documentary that aired on TCM leaves no doubt about her place in the highest pantheon of Hollywood stars along with very few others. And if she was ravaged by age and other problems, well, that's a big bunch of people.

Yes she did have an alcohol problem. It ran in her family. Her father was an alcoholic as were her sister and brother. Both siblings were also movie stars of the time but both died in the early 30's from alcohol related causes.

I have not study it enough but from what I could tell it was bad timing when her transistion to talkies was happening and she seemed to retire relatively early soon after. She was also 41 and had way more than enough money. Also the transistion happened during the peak of the Great Depression. There was more money and success working as a producer too and so she probably just decided not to go down like a old wash up movie star (like Madonna) and go out with her dignity intact in the Hollywood scene. She didn't retire until 1956 from producing movies from United Artists.

@@johnj2763 Wow, that is so sad and so young to die from alcohol related damage.

@@agrey2986 I think she was very cute ,those big eyes and small mouth ,she definitely had a baby face 😊

Go watch one of her films, if you haven't already. She's a good actress, she helped write, produce and on occasion direct her projects.

Mary was 84-years-young!

'A sweet lady' - hardly. She treated her children appallingly and was tough as old boots.

Really? I didn't know that about her. If that's really true I rescind my comment.

@@williamevans9426 No kidding?? I never would've guessed. She seemed so sweet here.

Who is Pia Zadora?

​@@bettagems9209A talentless actress who was active in the early 1980s and heavily promoted by her husband, a Hollywood bigwig.

​@@bettagems9209exactly

"For her part, Zadora defended the decision: “If I had a choice, I never would have torn down this old home. I loved this home, it had a history, it had a very important sense about it and you can deal with termites, and you can deal with plumbing issues, but you can’t deal with the supernatural.”"

One night when her husband was out of town, Zadora heard a blood-curdling scream at night. It was her young daughter, who came running and crying about a woman staring at her in the bedroom. “She said, ‘Mom, I saw this very tall, white, ghost-ish woman standing above my bed when I woke up,” Zadora claimed. “My daughter described this apparition of this woman: She had a white gown on and she was looking at her and laughing.” Naturally, Zadora suspected it was just her child’s imagination or the stress of moving homes. However, it didn’t take long for her to start seeing and hearing strange things in the home herself - including the laughing woman. Legend has it that paranormal activity at Pickfair went all the way back to its original owners, Pickford and Fairbanks. The couple reportedly saw the spirit of a female servant multiple times. As time went on, others reported seeing a ghostly woman wearing white, a male spirit near the entrance, and another apparition carrying sheet music. But while previous owners apparently took these “ghosts” in stride, Zadora and her family couldn’t handle them.

And Buddy was MY cousin. Very nice to meet you.

@G F Yes, it is me.

@G F Look at the spelling of my name.

@G F My family pronounces it: Theel

Nice!!!

Here here!!

@@JJMHigner If you mean "hear, hear!" I agree.

' incredible woman' no doubt. But, all that obscene opulence leading up to that frail bewildered small baggage....? Give me a break........

@@degsbabe The video was over "the top" but that is the way Hollywood used to be! *Everybody gets old .... and ... eventually frail* Mary Pickford was not a person who craved the spotlight. For her, it just happened. After her filming days were over, she retreated into a private life of family, supporting a few charities and traveling incognito with her husband. She had made the equivalent of almost 1 billion dollars and had invested it wisely.

She sure did! Mary was a genius!

Noooooooo Not Pickfair It Must Be A Museum

Bernie Tinirau what ????????!

@Samuel Rummer ... so her hubby could build their own palace 😣😥😪😫

The vulgar Pía Zadora did it? Not surprising to me.

Yes very honorable , respectful , WONDERFUL...WHAT????!!!! Her home torn down???? Makes me sick..WHY???i kno lots people sick over it im sure like other Hollywood legends homes..Developers!! ??😡😡😡💔💔💔💔💔Can California / Hollywood do something??

From Riches to Rags

There were plenty of controversies at the Oscars back then too. And at least Black people are allowed in now.

Lol really ? How did it take for the Oscar’s to acknowledge female directors/black/Asian actors ? What will did was infantile/toxic ,but let’s not pretend “society’s class has taken a nosedive “ when some some people are still not seen as equal 🌎

@@kllwc7772 I would counter that by asking for names of specific individuals who were robbed of an Oscar on the basis of gender, race, or sexuality. I’m not contending that bigotry had never been an issue in Hollywood but there are additional metrics you aren’t considering that are conveniently referred to as under-representation when you also have to look at -who was up for the nomination, the ratio of Male to Female directors, etc. It’s not always a cut and dry incident where you can blanket-ascribe a nefarious motive. Hattie McDaniel won best supporting for Gone with the Wind in 1940. If a section of the population is already under-represented, is it much of a leap to realize that this demographic under-representation would be reflected in something as specific and exclusionary as a wealthy awards show for the top 3% of the Hollywood food chain???

@@philipdraper7284 Hattie won the award for a stereotypical role not for her acting per se.If one of the films by Oscar Micheaux had won and / one of the actress’s,that would have invariably shown how the academy were willing to embrace diversity & all that it means …

​@@SundaeExpressYou're wrong.

@@SundaeExpress Are you seriously going to try to compare revolting creatures like the Kardashians to Mary Pickford or Lillian Gish? That's a bold strategy.

@@Hampton_Doubleday_Jr I think I am going to win if we do a point by point comparison of modern versus vintage actors. Emily Blunt is a fine actress, but, if you compare her to a similar topline vintage actress, Ida Lupino, Lupino was also a brilliant film director who directed several bona fide classics. And the worst modern actors and actresses are pretty dire indeed. When you call Chaplin a "revolting creature," you're probably bothered by some aspects of his personal life, rather than his talents on screen, which most critics are going to agree were indisputable. I don't care about the morality of actors, but their talents with their work. There are too many people who are "famous for being famous" in modern Hollywood.

@@Hampton_Doubleday_Jr You probably haven't seen a movie made more than 20 years past, so your opinions on this subject are likely completely worthless, Einstein.

@@Hampton_Doubleday_Jr That's ironic considering you have yet to construct a single argument to support any of your claims and you are very likely just trolling. Please slink away in defeat, loser.

@BC Dude Cool story, great memories for you :)

I am not really sure why you wrote such garbage.

@@HumanResource-sp6fg If you are reacting to what I wrote, it has been well documented by several reliable sources that she was an alcoholic in later life. Do not misunderstand that I am saying that to question her legacy and importance in the art of the cinema. She certainly deserves every accolade.

@BC Dude. It's ashame what they did to the place after her death.

@@Lampshade51 Thanks for clearing things up because I was thinking that's what a nasty troll would say.

+Minnesotaman68 What's wrong with being Canadian? You said it like it was a bad thing

+Nicholas Alonzi nothing wrong being a Canadian in her time. My observation meant she came to the United States and achieved the American Dream as so many come here to do.

Minnesotaman68

Canada had no film industry back in post WW1 period, at all. Canada was only a self ruling country for 50 years. The population was about 7 million people, spread from coast-to-coast. While they were proud of their land and heritage, people's sense of being 'Canadian' wasn't very well self-defined, except in the lives they lived, which was mostly rural. The cities and towns were growing, but they generally supported their hinterlands, with increasing quantities of industry coming via Britain and (soon to surpass) the United States, which was based on Canada's richness in natural resources. In such circumstances, it is no wonder that when 'Canadians' wanted to be worldly, they usually associated themselves to their country of parentage, or to the glamour of it's chief colonizer, the British Empire (the Quebecois (i.e. most French Canadians) were, because of their long developed history and concentrated population, an exception to the rule). The United States were a new world power, representing youth, modernism and hope, so many Canadians identified, not so much politically as socially, with 'Americanism'. So when Canadians wanted to make it 'big', that was where they went. They still do today. When it came to film and performance arts, there was little choice but to leave. In fact, this is still somewhat true today, because the worldly center of modern English-speaking culture and finance is in the United States, and that is where an artist can be best marketed. Canadian artists today can find a niche that would allow them to remain in Canada, while making a reasonably high standard of living, but the opportunities aren't as good. However, before you folks in the States become too smug about this, American international importance really didn't start until the reparations following the Civil War, some 100 years after you became the United States of America. Prior to this, the United States was a pretty desolate place, with Britain (your main trading market) slowly lifting its post Revolutionary trading embargoes. Canada may not have the climate and inhabitable land to be a great superpower, but it does have a population which is just as enterprising and proud as the U.S., or anywhere else. The fact that they don't force their citizens to sell their homes for health care, and don't allow underprivileged urban areas to rot into dangerous slums doesn't count against them one damned bit. Please advise all your friends who support what has become of the GOP to put that one up their enema bottles.

Untrepid One...STFU !!!!!

Hello how are you doing today???

Lynn Turman she will be remembered decades to come

Shes not forgotten.

Not forgotten.

Mary Invented Star System In Hollywood . Without Her , Hollywood May Not Be The Same As what We looked today . Too Bad Some Millenials Jist ignoree her achievement and legacy for film industry .

Not forgotten just not well remembered

She claims she did it over "ghosts". No kidding.

reving19 True, she said that there were ghosts. Stupid b*tch to tear down that beautiful house. Her silly family should of just moved out.

Just another trashy talentless hollywood z llist rejected actress.

true!

It was her house to do with what she wanted. Grow up, children.

I would love to see that myself

I want to become an actor maybe ill direct, so I'll do it, if I can. I have an obssesion with Mary, mostly due to the fact that she is largley not remembered well, but never forgotten, like how can someone be that famous, do so many pioneering things and just be forgotten by people, it hurts me,

@@ahyan6681 i totaly feel what you mean, world is cruel. Good luck i hope you can make it one day.

Agreed!

People didn't really start to realize Old Hollywood was gone until the 70s, is my understanding. The Golden Era lingered to the 60s. It does seem extremely weird that someone as substantial as Pickford wasn't honored ten or twenty years before this, but the 50s were the Golden Age still, people too self absorbed and too close to the 1920s to have perspective. The 50s to the 20s is like now to the late 80s. Do you see the problem now?

@@christinash2235 she was the second actress to ever win an Oscar, a founding member of the Academy, and a founding partner of United Artists. It wasn't that she didn't get her due but that she withdrew from public life after great personal tragedies occured towards the later part of her life.

My grandfather told me some time before his death not to go to his funeral. And to remember to compliment people during their lives. Not at their graves...

Shameful indeed. Think of the great talents that went unrecognized by the Academy because they were already dead. This so-called academy is a travesty.

At least they had true artists to give HONOUR to , and Oscars meant something special too, you have no idea, today people are over their head, complaining about nothing, born to destroy!

love her

Yes. She was very pretty!

I call her baby face beauty💞😊☝️☝️

Hello how are you doing???

For millennials it's often a task to even get them to watch a black and white talkie. In their lists of the greatest films, other than perhaps The Wizard of Oz, the history of movies seems to have begun with the first Star Wars

Couldn't agree with you more

I'm 30 now, but when I was in my early 20's I was obsessing with the 1920s and had to scour the internet to find ANY silent films. My favorite channel was TCM and I always stayed up for the silent film viewing that they did at midnight once a week. I was over the moon when I finally got to watch "Cobra" on Amazon Prime because it starred my favorite silent film actress Nita Naldi! (even though she didn't get THAT much screen time) And it's very sad that some of my generation and especially kids born after the mid 90's cannot appreciate anything that doesn't involve crazy, over the top graphics (which, honestly, give me a headache), shallow plots and all action with no dialogues to speak of. You really CANNOT beat the classics! Everything is so over saturated and everyone is so over stimulated now, that it is hard to imagine how people would faint and had to be carried out after viewing "Psycho" I believe... but that's how it is.. I also remember when thrillers or horror films of 80's and 90's wouldn't even SHOW anything and everyone was petrified..now, it seems, its all about making it most gruesome and in your face, but the scariest is still the suspense. Anyways..rant over! hahaha

oh yes i watch silent movies of that era to

I'm a so called millennial and I own the Gold Rush, The Kid, Battleship Potemkin, Metropolis, Safety Last!, The Freshman, Speedy, Modern Times and City Lights. I have also seen but do not own, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Sunrise. There is hope for some of us, but definitely not all of us. I do have to utilize objective truths here. Chaplin, Fairbanks and Pickford founded United Artists by the way.

They really need to bring it back.

@Erin Walsh you wrong! They still do

WillyV it’s a separate ceremony held a couple of weeks before the actual telecast. It’s been that way for some years now.

Sadly, they just don’t have legends like they used to!

@@scottmoore1614 Robert Redford?

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Hear, hear! Their reason for cutting the honorary awards from the telecast was to cut down on the running time, but that's complete hogwash, since the telecast still runs overtime. All they did was fill in the vacancies with pointless musical numbers and montages that have nothing to do with the movies being honored that year.

However, one advantage of the separate ceremony is that each artist is now given longer tributes and has time to make their own speech without interruption. The Academy posts these events on KZfaq every year.

probably why nobody watches these modern nobodies and this tired show today.

Viewership is down year after year, Hollywood produces bad recycled talent. Recycled movies and just trash all around.

Um Mary Pickford is a foundational pillar of Hollywood. It's weird to compare her to ANYONE honestly. She had a level of influence on things that still exist today that she doesn't share with any classic actress. She was also the first world renowned mega star. She threw her money at buildings that are now historic landmarks in Los Angeles. Barbara Stynwick indeed. LOL.

Torn down by that talentless hack pia zadora,because it was "haunted".

Ruth-Elizabeth Page

Shame on her!

Its still there. Changed somewhat, but there. 1143 Summit Drive Beverly Hills.

oh i wanted to see Pickfair D;

Wikipedia says that she became an alcoholic after silent films were over and times changed, but who knows.

@@proofofalifetime488 I think she less alcoholic . What happened when Fairbanks died are she hate him during funeral .

Yes she was. Her sister died at 43, and her brother at 36, from alcoholism. Unfortunately it ran in the family.

@@brule1961 well most likely but even if she was a addict to alcohol she had her reasons. I agree on some things run in the family, I could easily become addicted to cigarettes and I like them but I'm too scared of cancer it's like saying "here comes the boogeyman "my grandpa my dad's dad is a big time smoker and I noticed that when I first tried a cigarette, you bet I felt like I seriously liked it, not a good like though, its really bad for the health

Who Call Mary America Sweetheart First ? is It A. D.W Griffith B. Adolph Zukor

What a wonderful idea!

Mary Pickford?

Phoenix Swanson What hasn't she achieved???

Unfortunately, the rules stipulate that honorees must agree to accept the award. Doris Day keeps turning them down, despite the fact that she accepted her honorary Golden Globe in person in 1989. Of course now she's 96 years old.

@@bryanismyname7583 I read that she wants to be remembered as she was when she was young.

Pickfairswacha . Pickford Fairbanks Swanson And Chaplin .

One of my favorites is Buster Keaton! All ahead of their time! ❤️

Or all the real stars that Madonna sang about in her song Vogue!

Really? because she never stopped moaning that the movie didn't stick to the old-fashioned, silent format - ahead of her time? She was stuck in the past from the minute she realised people had to hear her, and her hysterical overacting would not cut it when actors began talking and didn't need all the histrionics of the silent era. Some stars of the time managed it, she gave up and turned to drink for the last 40+ years of her life as can be seen in the clip.

@@MarthaMansbridge Ahead of her time? Nope she was massively of her time (c. 1910-25) and that was her problem. Tastes changed and she couldn't.

The first.

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Lillian gish and Mary Pickford meet again in heaven .

I call her Madame Pickford . I missed her curls .