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...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...
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford built their fabled 14-acre "Pickfair" and proposed that the community be walled off from the outside world, when the Basil Rathbones ordered snow one slow summer day, provided sleds and skis for a couple of hundred friends. Beverly Hills was then, and is now, the most glamorous suburb...
Tackles & Buttons. As the movies flourished, so did the hotel. Its patrons built their homes around it: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford set their Pickfair high in the hills above it, so did Barrymore, Harold Lloyd and Tom Mix. Will Rogers and Darryl Zanuck played polo nearby, stopped so often at the hotel bar that it was and is still called the Polo Lounge. There were off-screen sporting events: Tom Mix once was sent to the carpet in a flying tackle by an autograph hound; Cartoonist George McManus unscrewed a button marked "Press" from a men's room...
Traveling from Indianapolis where they campaigned for the local Civic Theatre, Cinemactress Mary Pickford and Husband Buddy Rogers stepped off a train in Manhattan. Said she: "Buddy and I are planning a new home. . . . It won't be as pretentious as Pickfair. Mercy, no! Only four master bedrooms, and of course tennis courts, swimming pool and things like that...