On 2008-02-24 Nicoletta Carlone, Los Angeles wrote: I have seen this documentary twice, first on PBS, and then on DVD. Mary Pickford´s life was one that was both remarkable, beautiful and tragic. She came from a very poor back round working class family and managed through plays, and then movies to become Hollywood´s first starlet. She also was a very feisty business woman and started her own distributing company, United Artists with Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin. After a failed marrige, her married Douglas Fairbanks, and for a while then had a fairytale hollywood romance. Her life also had much tragedy after the loss of her mother, her divorce from her husband, and reliezing loosing her career due to her aging and became almost a recluse until her death. The documentary is well down, but there is a sort of gloomy,depressing quality to it, even when the documentary is talking about the happy times of her career. The music through out is very sad. I would have liked to see more of her happy times show as happy, and the sad parts shown as sad, this would have given more contrast to the film. Over all though, a very good documentary about an extrodinary woman.. And summed up by saying A nice documentary on Hollywood´s first female star. Currently Mary Pickford has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Sue Williams claimed It was the golden age of silent film, and she was the world´s most celebrated actress. Known as America´s sweetheart, Mary Pickford was famous for playing darling girls and feisty young women in wildly popular films seen around the globe. Her love affair with Hollywood´s leading man, Douglas Fairbanks, turned her into an icon of glamour and romance, the Hollywood dream come true. But, as Mary would learn in the most painful way, fame is fickle and life at the top is precarious.
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