Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart

New York: Donald I Fine, 1990. First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Very Good/Good. 6" x 9 1/2. 342 Pages Indexed. Flawless book with the feel of one never opened. Dust jacket with unclipped $19.95 price has 3 inch tear to back cover and minor shelf scuffs. Center section with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Contents in Fifteen Chapters plus Introduction, Acknowledgments, Bibliography, and Filmography. The author looks beneath the facade of the portrait within to reveal a woman 50 years ahead of her time: a woman who acted, wrote and produced; who created the star system inn Hollywood; who along with Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, founded United Artists. She was also a woman whose career made it impossible for her to live with the man she loved, and who paid and paid for her prodigious success, paving the way for the the later successes of such stars as Jane Fonda and Jessica Lange. The highest opaid and most famous woman of her era, she never appeared before the camera after age forty, opting instead to produce films in the last 15 years of her career for United Artists. Eyman examinse and recreates thelife of Mary Pickford, interviewing countless men and women who knew her well. Included is an intimate portrait of her marriage to Douglas Fairbanks, whom she never stopped loving, and to Buddy Rodgers. It is a living biograhy.