Word: pickford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unhappy families in Hollywood, United Artists Corp. seemed to be the unhappiest. One-third owner Mary Pickford and one-third owner Charlie Chaplin had not been on speaking terms for a year and a half. Yet last week, via counsel, they agreed to boot out one-third owner David Oliver Selznick...
...Mary Pickford films are also scarce. The New York Hat, a 1912 Griffith-directed job, is a Museum favorite. But Miss Pickford has promised to give a selection of her later films to the Library of Congress...
...found out one thing while I've been here-that anyone with guts is desperately interested in religion. The urgency of our day . . . is beginning to crystallize most mens desire to find a way of life in spiritual things." Among those who "feel the urgency": Mary Pickford ("frightfully concerned with religion"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("desperately seeking a working philosophy...
...tried to make capital out of the U.S. Blue Book charges (TIME, Feb. 18), called them undiplomatic, then himself screamed: "crude lies." To a reporter he blandly declared: "If I'm a fascist, you are Mary Pickford." But the Strong Man's attempt to make the election a personal quarrel with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden ("Perón or Braden, that is the issue"), got a jolt when Harry Truman stated flatly that, as President, he stood behind every word in the Blue Book...
Among the 275 guests were Canadian-born Mary Pickford, Walter Pidgeon, Alexander Knox, Jack Carson; British-born Greer Garson, Gary Grant, Ronald Colman; such friendly neighbors as Margaret O'Brien, Shirley Temple, Jimmy Cagney...