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It was one hundred years ago that a young Broadway actress from Canada
would hesitantly accept work in “the flickers”
at the Biograph Studios in New York in an effort to make ends meet.
Within weeks of her appearances in D.W. Griffith’s
stock company, she was already being singled out by audiences. Eventually
to become known as “America’s Sweetheart,”
Mary Pickford would emerge as one of motion pictures’ earliest and most
enduring stars and a seminal force in
early Hollywood filmmaking. The Academy, which Pickford helped found,
celebrates her filmmaking centennial with a
selection of films from her first year including “They Would Elope,” “The
Trick That Failed,” “A Midnight Adventure,”
“The Mountaineer’s Honor” and “To Save Her Soul.” All prints will be in
35mm, some newly restored, and are drawn
from the collection of the Library of Congress.
Tickets for A CENTURY AGO: THE FILMS OF 1909, THE FIRST FILMS OF MARY
PICKFORD are $5 for the general
public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid I.D. Tickets
may be purchased online at www.oscars.org and in
person at the Academy during regular business hours (9 a.m.–5 p.m.,
Monday–Friday) For additional information,
please call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org. The Linwood Dunn
Theater is located at the Academy’s Pickford
Center for Motion Picture Study, 1313 Vine Street, Hollywood.
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