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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...
...money-wise axis of Walter Wanger, Sol Lesser and Edward Small; the Crosby, Cagney and Leo (Going My Way) McCarey companies; and many of the profitable B producers. And perennially on the verge of making another picture are such formidable pioneers of independence as Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, who helped found United Artists Corp...
...Winner? Last week Goldwyn, trailing publicity men and photographers, arrived in Reno to help drive the last nail into the floor. Antimonopolist Mary Pickford, who helped found United Artists in 1919 to fight the big distributors in early Hollywood days, drove the nail herself. That night, Up in Arms opened triumphantly...
...Mary Pickford and her Navy lieutenant husband, Buddy Rogers, adopted a second child, two-year-old Roxanne. Said mother Mary: "We plan to have at least two more and maybe four when we get out of the Navy...
...name, carried on in an elegant office while Dr. Smilie stayed home. Schireson advertised himself as a kind of super-beautician: he claimed to have glorified Greta Garbo, Peaches Browning (face fixed and fat legs pared), the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Lady Diana Manners, Mary Pickford and a politician listed as "Mr. X."* Most of these people had never heard of Schireson. But his bona fide patients claim that Schireson's surgical methods are terrifying. He even used hammers to whack noses into shape...