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When she married Fairbanks in 1920, the two reigned as Hollywood's king and queen in their legendary home, Pickfair. He was the athletic bon vivant, she the gracious princess. But the poetic silent picture was replaced by the prosaic talkie, and Pickford was finally too old for her girlish grit to be convincing. She made her last film in 1933 at 40, and within a few years Jack, Lottie and Doug were dead. Bereft, she quietly drank herself to oblivion, pickled in Pickfair. By her death in 1979, only a few oldsters could recall Little Mary with anything like...
These days it is a hardship even for the wealthy to build a mansion from the ground up, but they may always acquire one readymade. Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Kings, has recently bought the legendary Pickfair (Will he rename it Bussfare?). It has 22 rooms, which sounds a lot for a bachelor, but big spenders always enjoy an abundance of rooms, even when those rooms have no particular functions...
...about only through the reminiscences of their elders, that her name could, for one last time, command the front page. Mary Pickford had been absent since 1933 from the movie screen that she had once dominated. For the past 13 years of her life, she was a recluse at Pickfair, the Beverly Hills mansion she had lived in since 1920, when she married Douglas Fairbanks, one of her few peers in silent films...
...they appeared in the flesh. He thrived on it and restlessly roamed the globe as his popularity faded. The rest lessness became sexual and finally caused their divorce in 1936. By then she was 42, and all she really wanted was a chance to enjoy her winnings in comfort. Pickfair was perhaps the most comfortable great house in America, elegant and welcoming. In 1937 she married Buddy Rogers, the band leader and actor who had given her that first screen kiss. Until her final withdrawal into solitude, she occupied herself with various causes, including work for the aged...
...James Coco), whose career as a silent-film star has suffered from the coming of sound. After a five-year absence, Jolly is staging the world première of his. new comedy and inviting everyone to his Hollywood mansion. Doug and Mary are having a do over at Pickfair, however, so the Grimm guest list is mostly populated by second-raters...