Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood
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1997 in literature
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biography
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of actress Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
(1892–1979) written by Eileen Whitfield. The acclaimed biography took ten years to complete and was published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross in Canada
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and by the University Press of Kentucky
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in the United States
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. The book won the UBC President's Medal in Biography.
Of it, Library Journal
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said: "there have been other biographies of Pickford, this will stand as the definitive one. Highly recommended."
In this book, at the end she dies.