MARY PICKFORD - INSCRIBED BOOK PAGE SIGNED 9/1956 - HFSID 284224

MARY PICKFORD
She inscribes a book page bearing a photo of Marie Dressler, writing of Dressler, "I knew her and loved her."
Book Page inscribed and signed: "I knew her/and loved/her Mary!/Sorry, Bill, that Buddy and I/misplaced your valuable book/September 1956",  6½x9½ book page signed in ink. Photo shows Marie Dressler mugging in army uniform at a war bonds drive for World War I. 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, a studio devoted exclusively to the making of her films. 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. Inn 1937, she established the Mary Pickford Cosmetics Company. That same year, she married former co-star Charles "Buddy" Rogers. (She has mentioned Buddy in her inscription here.) Marie Dressler (1868-1934) was a well known comic actress. Pickford, Dressler, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin toured together on a war bonds drive in 1918. Two years later Pickford divorced her first husband, Owen Moore, and married Fairbanks. Right edge torn from previous binding. Soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.