Biografia

One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

She had intended to have all of her films destroyed after her death, fearing that no one would care about them. She was convinced not to do this.

She was the first movie actress to receive a percentage of a film's earnings

First star (along with husband Douglas Fairbanks) to officially place hand and footprints in the cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre (April 30, 1927). Hollywood legend has it that the very first star to do so, unofficially, thus inspiring the ensuing tradition, was Norma Talmadge when she accidentally walked onto the wet cement prior to the official opening of the Theatre

Was Joan Crawford's mother-in-law, while Crawford was married to Pickford's son, Douglas Fairbanks Jr..

We were pioneers in a brand-new medium. Everything's fun when you're young.

I'm sick of Cinderella parts, of wearing rags and tatters. I want to wear smart clothes and play the lover.

We maniacs had fun and made good pictures and a lot of money. In the early years, United Artists was a private golf club for the four of us.

If you have made mistakes... and there is always another chance for you... you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.

I never liked one of my pictures in its entirety.

Heart o' the Hills (1919) - $350,000

The Hoodlum (1919) - $350,000

Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) - $350,000

Stella Maris (1918) - $250,000

The Little American (1917) - $68,666 .66