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Show C-9 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, April 2-5, 2005 KUED plans show on 'Mary Pickford' lings. But Gladys had talent and the glow that critics call star power. At 15, she landed a part in one of impresario David Belasco's Broadway productions and took a glamorous new name: Mary Pickford. It was the golden age of silent Soon Mary left Broadway for film, and she was the world's the scandalous new medium of most celebrated actress. Known silent movies. At the top New as "America's Sweetheart," York film company, Biograph Mary Pickford was famous for Studios, she charmed director playing darling girls and feisty D.W. Griffith into hiring her as young women in wildly popular an extra at a salary of $10 a day films seen around the globe. Her - double the going rate. love affair with Hollywood's Pickford's electric on-screen leading man, Douglas Fairbanks, presence won her major film turned her into an icon of glam- roles. It was the start of almost our and romance, the Hollywood two decades of rocketing box dream come true. But, as office success, which Pickford Pickford would learn, in the most astutely parlayed into ever-larger painful and public way, fame is salaries. At 23, • she joined fickle and life at the top precari- Adolph Zukor's Famous Players ous. Film Company, earning an astonAmerican Experience pres- ishing $500 a week, close to what ents the CINE Golden Eagle most Americans earned in a year. Award-winning "Mary The lead role in Zukor's Tess of Pickford," a special that charts the Storm Country catapulted the rise and fall of the actress Pickford to a level of stardom who became the most powerful never before seen. The film woman in Hollywood. "Mary played on four continents to Pickford," airing on KUED- adoring crowds, and fan mail Channel 7 Monday, April 4 at 8 poured in from every corner of p.m., is the first in-depth look at the world. her remarkable career and her In Hollywood, Pickford was as impact on today's Hollywood well known for her business culture. Oscar-nominated actress skills as she was for her acting. Laura Linney narrates. Her 1916 salary negotiations She began as plain Gladys made headlines: She won Smith of Toronto. At just seven $500,000 a year and her own proyears old, she made her stage duction unit. Zukor also set up a debut; by age nine she was the separate company to distribute family breadwinner, touring in her films, and they shared the cheap melodramas to support profits. her widowed mother and sib- But even as her career soared. "She set the parameters for movie stardom, and she was the first to pay the price - and it's a terrible price, " - Scott Eytnan, author, Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart WOOD The previous record holder was "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," which came out in 2003 with a first run of 6.8 million. "We have worked very closely with all of our accounts to anticipate the level of demand for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,'" Scholastic Children's Books president Barbara Marcus said Wednesday in a statement. "Once again, we are hearing from our accounts that the pre-orders BLIND SALE! BEST PRICES IN TOWN I I I 24-year-old Pickford struggled to union fell apart; they divorced in I hide the misery of her personal 1936. life. Five years earlier, she had As the Jazz Age ushered in a I married secretly, and now, as her new generation of stars - daring I www. diamondparking. com 7-Setf Parking ? 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But her fans king and queen of Hollywood, forgot her, and Pickford began lo Pickford and Fairbanks made drink heavily and became more their home in a spectacular and more of a recluse. Beverly Hills estate, Pickfair. By the 1960s, she rarely left Pickford and Fairbanks were Pickfair. When she received an also business partners. In a dar- honorary Oscar at the 1976 ing and risky move, they teamed Academy Awards, the public was with Charlie Chaplin and shocked. Age. seclusion and alcoGriffith to create United Artists. holism had taken a devastating Now the stars, who put up the toll on the girl with the radiant money to produce films that they smile and tumbling golden curls. controlled, gained an unprece- She would live only three more dented amount of creative free- years. dom. Pickford's business savvy "Mary Pickford was first in so made her a movie mogul in what many ways: Hollywood's first was rapidly becoming one of woman executive, the first interPINEBROOK PERFECTION! • $369,900 America's most profitable indus- national superstar, the first to pay CALLUS tries. the price of extravagant global FOR FREE says director Sue MARKET The advent of sound in 1927 fame," ANALYSIS! presented a tremendous chal- Williams. "Her story is extraordilenge to many silent stars, even narily relevant for today's celebriMary Pickford. Her fans.didn't ty-obsessed culture. At the same understand a "talking" Mary. time, it draws us back to the And her marriage was in trouble. romantic era of the silver screen, At 46, Fairbanks strained to per- when the cinema was new and form the extraordinary physical exciting, and everyone loved a stunts that were his trademark. fresh, young beauty, Mary He filled his time with travel - Pickford."" and an affair with English "Mary Pickford" airs on We don't just list your property...we SELL it! socialite Lady Sylvia Ashley. KUED-Channei 7 Monday, April Pickford and Fairbanks' fairytale 4 at 8 p.m. j Thinking of Buying or Selling? NOW is the Time! Bells, whistles announced for new Potter book NEW YORK (AP) You already know a new Harry Potter book is coming this summer. Here are some bells and whistles. First, expect enough books out there to fill all of Hogwarts. Scholastic Inc., the U.S. publisher of J.K. Rowling's fantasy series, has announced a first printing of 10.8 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince/1 the largest such printing for a hardcover release in this country. I Choices! are phenomenal." "Half-Blood Prince" has topped the best seller lists of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com ever since its release was announced in December. To make sure that nobody could miss the book's arrival. Scholastic also announced Wednesday a range of marketing gimmicks, including a Harry Potter crossword puzzle in The New York Times in July, promotional spots on the Times Square billboard, Google ads and video commercials on domestic flights of Continental Airlines and American Airlines. Bookstores already are planning their traditional parties to mark the midnight, July 16 publication of "Half-Blood Prince." the sixth of seven planned books. Worldwide sales have topped 250 million for the fantasy series, which has been translated into 62 languages. TERRY &LANNIE SCOPES. 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