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Mary Pickford

1892 - 1979

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Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian actress resident in the U.S., and also producer, screenwriter, and film studio founder. She was a pioneer in the American film industry, with a Hollywood career that spanned five decades. Alongside her future husband, actor-producer Douglas Fairbanks, Pickford founded Pickford–Fairbanks Studios and United Artists, and was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Pickford has received more than 4,721,688 page views. Her biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Mary Pickford is the 569th most popular actor (down from 506th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 36th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Canadian Actor.

Mary Pickford was an actress in the early 1900s. She was one of the first people to become a movie star and she was the first person to be called a movie star.

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  • 82

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mary Pickford ranks 569 out of 9,996. Before her are Famke Janssen, Daniela Bianchi, Marion Cotillard, La Belle Otero, Burt Young, and Benedict Cumberbatch. After her are Emma, Lady Hamilton, Powers Boothe, Alida Valli, Michèle Morgan, Dean Stockwell, and Courteney Cox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Mary Pickford ranks 50. Before her are Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Bolesław Bierut, E. H. Carr, Nikolai Kondratiev, V. Gordon Childe, and Oswald Pohl. After her are Margaret Rutherford, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, József Mindszenty, Erich Auerbach, Johannes Frießner, and Mikhail Kirponos. Among people deceased in 1979, Mary Pickford ranks 36. Before her are Ernst Chain, Agostinho Neto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Francisco Macías Nguema, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, and Peggy Guggenheim. After her are Pier Luigi Nervi, Nicholas Ray, Edvard Kardelj, Louis Chiron, Giulio Natta, and Feodor Lynen.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Mary Pickford ranks 42 out of 1,350. Before her are René Angélil (1942), William Giauque (1895), Joni Mitchell (1943), Paul Anka (1941), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), and Denis Villeneuve (1967). After her are Jim Peebles (1935), Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), Lois Maxwell (1927), Ryan Reynolds (1976), Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), and Charles Taylor (1931).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Mary Pickford ranks 8. Before her are Donald Sutherland (1935), Jim Carrey (1962), Christopher Plummer (1929), Michael J. Fox (1961), William Shatner (1931), and Dan Aykroyd (1952). After her are Lois Maxwell (1927), Ryan Reynolds (1976), Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), Geneviève Bujold (1942), Pamela Anderson (1967), and Glenn Ford (1916).

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