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Mary Pickford - Later years | | Mary Pickford - Later years: Encyclopedia II - Mary Pickford - Later years | | For the last 50-odd years of her life, Pickford suffered from alcoholism, which also afflicted her first husband and both of her parents. She became somewhat of a recluse, remaining at Pickfair in her final decades, only allowing visits from Lillian Gish, her stepson Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and a few select others.
The "Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study" at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood, constructed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, opened in 1948 as a radio and television studio facility. The "Mary Pickford Theater" at the United State ...
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Mary Pickford - Later years
For the last 50-odd years of her life, Pickford suffered from alcoholism, which also afflicted her first husband and both of her parents. She became somewhat of a recluse, remaining at Pickfair in her final decades, only allowing visits from Lillian Gish, her stepson Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and a few select others.
The "Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study" at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood, constructed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, opened in 1948 as a radio and television studio facility. The "Mary Pickford Theater" at the United States Library of Congress was named in her honor.
Mary Pickford received an Academy Honorary Award for a lifetime of achievements. The Academy sent a TV crew to her house to record her reaction to the award. Her frail appearance and her nearly unintelligible speech shocked the general public (who remembered Pickford from the movies she had made in her prime). Before her death, Pickford petitioned the Canadian government to restore her Canadian citizenship which she believed had been lost when she became a U.S. citizen on her marriage to Fairbanks in 1920. Due to the byzantine immigration laws of the '20s, the Canadian government wasn't sure she had ever lost her citizenship; nevertheless, they officially declared her to be a Canadian. Thus, long before it became fashionable to do so, Pickford became a dual citizen. She died on May 29, 1979 at age 87, and lies buried in the Garden of Memory of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Buried alongside her in the Pickford private family plot are her mother Charlotte, her scandal-prone siblings Lottie and Jack Pickford and the family of Elizabeth Watson, Charlotte's sister, who had helped raise Mary in Toronto.
Mary Pickford received a posthumous star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto in 1999.
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