MARY PICKFORD - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 1930 - HFSID 16091
Price: $700.00
MARY PICKFORD
Vintage photo inscribed, signed and dated (1930) by Pickford.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Beverly/Sincerely yours/ Mary
Pickford/1930". Vintage b/w, 7½x9½. Mary Pickford (1893-1979) began
working at Biograph Studios in 1909 at $40 a week. By 1912, she was making
$500 weekly at Adolph Zukor's Famous Players. Her salary was doubled
periodically. In 1916, Pickford signed an astounding contract with Zukor for
$10,000 a week plus a $300,000 bonus plus the formation of The Mary Pickford
Company (later, The Pickford Corporation), a studio devoted exclusively to the
making of her films. She was also to share the profits in Zukor's studio.
Pickford was the first superstar of the movies. In 1919, Pickford,
Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks formed United Artists to
distribute their films. In 1920, Pickford and Fairbanks were married. They
separated in 1933, which coincided with Pickford retiring from the movies.
Pickford and Fairbanks were divorced in January 1936. Later in 1936, she became
First Vice President of United Artists and, in 1937, established the Mary
Pickford Cosmetics Company. That same year, she married former co-star Charles
"Buddy" Rogers. Pen has skipped slightly at "P" of signature. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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