On 2008-05-10 30307, Atlanta, GA United States wrote: Pickford is a fascinating woman. I could explore all of her many gifts, but recommend you watch this film for that. I am writing because I watched this and another recent documentary concerning Mary Pickford within a one-week period. Both documentaries were fascinating, but, in the end, I found this particular film to be much more compassionate toward the aging Mary Pickford. Had I based my opinion of Mary Pickford on the other documentary, and not seen this film, I would have perceived Mary Pickford as being a pathetic has-been in her later years. It seemed that the other documentary portrayed Pickford´s life as being ´washed up´ after the 1930´s. The film carried an air of cattiness toward the aging Pickford. So I was surprised to learn, while watching this film, of Pickford´s kindness and contribution in her later years and to see with my own eyes that, yes, Pickford grew to be even more beautiful as she aged. She had her issues, true, but her life didn´t exactly end in the 1930´s --- not according to this documentary, anyway.
I enjoy biographical interpretations, but, at the same time, am wary of them. We love to tell stories about other people but, too often, our own inner life and opinions are projected out on the very people we tell stories about. It´s hard to know what is truth. Having said that, this documentary was kinder to Pickford, and the world needs more of that. Five stars.. And summed up by saying Excellent Biography. Currently Mary Pickford - A Life on Film has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Charles ´Buddy´ Rogers claimed By the age of seventeen, Mary Pickford had become the first actress to achieve international superstardom. By the time she was thirty, she was the first and only woman ever to own a major movie studio, the only woman to be the highest-paid actor in Hollywood and the first actress to have complete control in making her films. With comedic talents equal to Keaton, Lloyd or Chaplin, the tragic range of Gish and Swanson and business acumen to rival any Hollywood mogul, Mary Pickford was the consummate movie star of the 20th Century. ´Mary Pickford: A Life on Film´ is the definitive documentary on the most powerful woman in the history of cinema. Hosted and narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.
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