Word: pickford
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Divorced. Mrs. Marilynn Miller Pickford, 29, famed musical comedy actress, from Jack Pickford, 31, cinemactor and brother of Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks; in Versailles. She charged desertion, incompatibility. Her first husband was Actor Frank Carter who died in 1920 in an automobile accident. Said she last June: "Paris divorces are easy to get!" French legal circles were vexed, the Pickford divorce suit was deferred to October...
...York Times: "Composed of the same eminently saleable materials that have made Abie's Irish Rose, mammy songs, Mary Pickford and the comic strips such inexhaustible institutions of our national life." Romancing 'Round. "Fun in the Navy" might be an appropriate subtitle for this selection. It is set on the Brooklyn water front; and a young woman is enamored of one of the sailors. She has a former lover and an irascible father of impeccable lineage. These splatter the stage with farce and melodrama to a happy, if firmly foregone, conclusion. Helen McKellar, called to the part...
Soon after Marilynn Miller sued Jack Pickford for divorce, tempestuous Frenchmen raised their voices in angry protest. An investigation followed, which established that U. S. citizens made false claims of French residence after a stay of only a few weeks in a hotel or a furnished apartment; that they illegally claimed residence in a U. S. state where the conditions of divorce favored their case. For example, it was stated that many people obtained divorces on the ground of incompatibility and claimed residence in those states where such ground is sustained, no French divorce being granted that conflicts with...
California. The Hollywood Home of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford was offered by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce...
Consternation reigned in Reno. Paris and even Vera Cruz or Mexico City had charms outrivalling those of the Nevada beauty spot beloved of Mary Pickford. Tom Mix and others of the beau monde, who just love American home life--the more homes the better. Reno Rotarians felt that something had to be done...