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Article: Mary Pickford.(Television Program Review)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- April 4, 2005
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Mary Pickford (Docu; PBS, Men. April 4. 8 p.m.)
Produced by Ambrica Prods. for "American Experience?' Executive producers, Judith Vecchione, Mark Samels; series producer, Sharon Grimberg; producers, Kathryn Dietz, Sue Williams. Director-writer, Sue Williams; camera, Bestor Cram; music, Tom Phillips. 90 MIN.
Narrator: Laura Linney
She was the first pop culture icon who took shape through cinema, the first Hollywood actress to produce her own pictures, the first screen queen to truly merit the label "superstar." Twenty-six years after her death, however, Mary Pickford too often is overlooked or undervalued by film historians and nostalgia buffs. ...