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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 4,676,813 page views. Her biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Mary Pickford is the 555th most popular actor (up from 569th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Canada (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 9th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mary Pickfords by language

Over the past year Mary Pickford has had the most page views in the with 513,980 views, followed by German (49,920), and Russian (36,807). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Haitian (186.62%), Vietnamese (98.14%), and Ido (68.31%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mary Pickford ranks 555 out of 13,578. Before her are Nastassja Kinski, Jessica Tandy, Harriet Andersson, Peter Finch, Jim Broadbent, and Samy Naceri. After her are Woody Harrelson, Mr. T, Kevin Kline, Gabriel Byrne, Hildegard Knef, and Michelle Yeoh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Mary Pickford ranks 49. Before her are Bolesław Bierut, Władysław Anders, Richard Neutra, Alexandre Koyré, Nikolai Kondratiev, and V. Gordon Childe. After her are József Mindszenty, E. H. Carr, Margaret Rutherford, Hjalmar Siilasvuo, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, and Mikhail Kirponos. Among people deceased in 1979, Mary Pickford ranks 32. Before her are Robert Burns Woodward, Nur Muhammad Taraki, Agostinho Neto, Reinhard Gehlen, Wilhelm Bittrich, and Rachele Mussolini. After her are Otto Robert Frisch, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Ernst Chain, Peggy Guggenheim, Dhyan Chand, and Giulio Natta.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Mary Pickford ranks 45 out of 1,622. Before her are Oswald Avery (1877), Drake (1986), Jim Peebles (1935), Howard Shore (1946), Henry Mintzberg (1939), and John Kenneth Galbraith (1908). After her are Joni Mitchell (1943), Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (1943), Paul Anka (1941), William Vickrey (1914), Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), and Ryan Gosling (1980).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Mary Pickford ranks 9. Before her are Donald Sutherland (1935), Christopher Plummer (1929), Michael J. Fox (1961), William Shatner (1931), Pamela Anderson (1967), and Dan Aykroyd (1952). After her are Ryan Gosling (1980), Lois Maxwell (1927), Mack Sennett (1880), John Candy (1950), Mike Myers (1963), and Glenn Ford (1916).

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Television and Movie Roles

Sparrows
Molly
Molly, the eldest child of a group of orphans being used as slaves on a farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.
Sep 19o 19267.29 / 10
The Lonely Villa
A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.
Jun 10o 19096.1 / 10
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Gwen
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
Mar 5o 19175.766 / 10