When Mary PIckford's marriage to Douglas Fairbanks fell apart, she increasingly turned to her friend and former co-star Buddy Rogers for support. He proposed to her and they married in 1937. Rogers ...

KEENE, N.H. Carpenter Peter Massie has come across some interesting finds over the years — antique bottles, old newspapers stuffed in walls. But his biggest discovery is the only known copy of a 1911 ...

There are very few marriages like that of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Not only were they two of the most beloved actors of the silent film era, but they are also responsible for the creation ...

In 28 days it began. In 28 weeks it spread. In 28 years it evolved.

Introduction / Molly Haskell -- The Natural: Transitions in Mary Pickford's Acting from the Footlights to Her Greatest Role in Film / Eileen Whitfield -- Childhood Revisited: An Evaluation of Mary ...

It’s virtually impossible to turn on a TV, surf the web, walk through a supermarket or spend a day in the company of others without some reminder or factoid concerning a starlet. Naturally, the modern ...

Filmmakers Mary Pickford and Lois Weber during the silent era Credit: Photo of Mary Pickford from the Library of Congress, Photo of Weber from the J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs ...

During the 1917 filming of “A Romance of the Redwoods,” the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce named a tree in Welch’s Big Tree Grove after its director Cecil B. DeMille. But when its star Mary Pickford ...