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...vacation in Paris, Mary Pickford, 58, was invited to the Italian embassy for a little ceremony. For her work in helping orphans and sending relief packages to Italy, Ambassador Pietro Quaroni pinned the Order of the Republic on her lapel and gave her a diplomatic buss. Whereupon a member of the audience, honeymooning Sir Charles Mendl, 79, did the same. Said he: "I always kiss Mary every time I see her; been doing it for 25 years...
Toronto's Public Works Commission was trying to decide whether to erect a $3,000 bronze statue of Mary Pickford. The design, already approved by the home-town girl who made good in Hollywood, is a four-foot-high, eight-year-old lass with dangling Pickford curls...
...Theda Bara, Rudolph Valentino, the fantastic low-taxed Hollywood salary and the uninhibited Hollywood way of life. Bill Boyd accumulated a mansion in Beverly Hills, a beach house at Malibu, a ranch in the coastal hills, numerous bootleggers, and-with his pals Wallace Reid, Jack Pickford, Rod La Rocque-paddled happily with the tide. He got married and divorced three more times, and once during a party bought a yacht because everybody wanted to go for a boat ride...
...America picked the country's ten most beautiful women. Among them: Elizabeth Taylor ("Face and grace of an angel"), Ava Gardner ("Temptingly curved bosom and hip lines"), Esther Williams ("Flawlessly formed jaws and thighs"), Ginger Rogers ("Fine bold chin"), Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt ("Shapely ears"), and Mary Pickford ("Everybody's 'favorite aunt' type...
...Charlie," exclaimed Mary Pickford as Charlie Chaplin gave her a big buss, "that's the first time you've done that in all the years we've known each other." The occasion, according to Variety: the sale, by Co-Owners Pickford and Chaplin, of 7,200 shares of United Artists stock (TIME, July...