Pickford by Eileen Whitfield7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() of Kentucky), a knockout of a biography on sale next month, Eileen Whitfield shows a rare gift for making sense of acting styles, and for bringing to life the world of silent movies. Despite her winsome on-screen persona, she became the first actress to produce her own films, a cofounder of United Artists, and a major shaper of film acting. ![]() In 1909, when she landed her first movie job, Pickford was just scraping by in 1915, she was one of the world’s best-known women. Women wrote and directed some stars had a measure of control over their movies that a Julia Roberts can only dream of today.Īmong the most influential early film women were Mary Pickford and Mae West. ![]() In the early part of the century, before the movie business outgrew its seedy origins, it was one of the rare fields where an ambitious woman could hope to make a professional mark. ![]()
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