Mary Pickford short films – collection #2
In April 1909, Mary Pickford performs in her first film – a small role as a ten-year-old girl in the short “Her Frist Biscuits”, directed by D.W. Griffiths. She signs on with the Biograph Company at $10 per day. On this day, she also meets future husband, fellow Biograph actor Owen Moore.
Griffith made 138 films in 1909 and Mary was in 45 of them. Together, they broke new ground as they innovated filmmaking; Griffith through camera angles and movement, crosscutting, close-ups and fade-outs and Mary by bringing a naturalness to the screen as she played children, married women, waifs, Native Americans, and housemaids.
This collection brings seven short films made in 1912 by D.W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford:
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills, A Lodging for the Night, Friends, The Mender of Nets, My Baby, So Near Yet So Far, The School Teacher and the Waif.
These films are generously presented by Mary Pickford Foundation
Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes