"Will you come back tomorow? Our pay for everyone is five dollars a day..." " I'm a David Belasco actress,Mr. Griffith,and I must have ten"
Hello! My name is Mary Pickford. I am one of the most famous silent movie stars of the 20th century. You may know me by my nickname "America's Sweetheart" from my many years of acting and producing. I entertained Americans in the hard times of war, and even the good times in between. At only fifteen I made it to Broadway in David Belasco's " The warrens of Virginia" after being just any old teenage road performer. Only a few years after that I stared in silent films such as "The Poor Little Rich Girl" and "Rebecca of Sunny brook Farm". In the year of 1909 alone, I starred in fifty one movies. In April of 1909 I walked up to the Brooklyn brownstone where the American biography company was set up and asked for a job. They provided me with makeup, set up a screen test and gave a small part in a scene. D. W. Griffith asked me to come back the next day and offered me a pay of five dollars a day. I declined and said that I was a “Belasco actress and artist” and demanded ten dollars. To my advantage he agreed. And I rose to stardom from there
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Sunshine and Shadow. Garden City, New York: Double and Company inc., 1955. Print
I really like this photo. There is so much intensity in it.
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