Word: pickfair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...reelers and 52 feature films, she played the kind of waifs and orphans and ingenues who broke America's heart. And after Mary Pickford married Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in 1920 at the peak of her career, they reigned at "Pickfair" for ten idyllic years, entertaining foreign royals. But behind the simper, Mary, who went into show business at the age of four, possessed the brain of a Harvard Business School graduate. In Sweetheart, the first full-length biography of Pickford, published this week, Author Robert Windeler tots up Mary's present fortune to more than $50 million...
...Welcome to Pickfair," said the thin, halting voice on the tape recorder. "Thank you for the good things you've said about me in the past." Mary Pickford-superstar of the century's teens and 20s, whose ringlets and little-girl look and marriage to Fellow Superstar Douglas Fairbanks made her "America's Sweetheart"-was greeting reporters at her Beverly Hills mansion. But not in person. Now 77 and operated on two years ago for cataracts, she carefully stayed out of sight while her husband of 33 years, Bandleader Buddy Rogers, 64, announced the re-release...