Mary Pickford Rediscovered
Rare Pictures of a Hollywood Legend
by Robert Cushman; Kevin Brownlow
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Editions of Mary Pickford Rediscovered
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Harry N Abrams Inc |
Date 1999 |
Price $18.00 |
 GOOD CONDITION |
Publisher Notes
"America's Sweetheart" is the subject of this lavish tribute, illustrated with fabulous film stills, rare production shots, and personal photographs--most never before published. 232 illustrations.
Media Reviews
"Anyone who has seen a few of the major Pickford films knows that she was a great deal more than a cuddly little girl in ringlets and pinafores, but how much more is amply and beautifully demonstrated in ''Mary Pickford Rediscovered,'' a celebratory work of re-evaluation by the film historian Kevin Brownlow. Cushman, who is also the photographic services administrator at the academy's Margaret Herrick Library, has selected the book's exquisite photographs and movie stills, which range from Pickford at her most winsomely beautiful to her most unrecognizably, even grotesquely, plain. Brownlow, one of our most eloquent guides to silent cinema, provides fascinating background stories and appreciations of the films themselves and of Pickford's amazingly varied incarnations...."
First Line
Shortly after I began working at the Academy Library in 1972, I first contacted Mary Pickford (officially, in writing) about the possibility of her collection of still photographs and papers coming to the institution. She responded that, although she didn't have "very much left," she would eventually give what remained to the Academy. When the Academy held the grand opening of its new Wilshire Boulevard building in 1975, we decided to feature a huge Pickford exhibit (on two floors) to commemorate the event. Not only was she one of the great figures of film history and a founder of the Academy, it was (and is) widely believed that the concept for the Academy was originally her idea.
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