Example sentences for: pickford

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  • Somewhat dubious “talent schools” sprang up, catering to small-town girls who hoped to emulate film stars such as Mary Pickford.

  • 24 Watch of Evil --An evil scientist (Edward G. Robinson) hypnotizes a woman (Mary Pickford) and makes her think that he looks like a dashing leading man.

  • It is not the first time that actors have tried to seize the reins of production--that was in 1919, when Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks joined forces with William S. Hart and D.W.

  • Hollywood Boulevard introduced lavishly exotic Chinese and Egyptian-style movie palaces, and film stars built homes to match in Beverly Hills, the most famous being the Pickfair mansion, a hunting lodge which Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford turned into a honeymoon estate.

  • They did, especially during the late 1910s and the 1920s, when a leading lady like Mary Pickford could command the then-astronomical sum of $10,000 a week, plus an annual bonus of $340,000.


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