Mary Pickford Rediscovered Rare Pictures of a Hollywood Legend

"Anyone who has seen a few of the major Pickford films knows that she was a great deal more than a cuddly little girl in ringlets and pinafores, but how much more is amply and beautifully demonstrated in ''Mary Pickford Rediscovered,'' a celebratory work of re-evaluation by the film historian Kevin Brownlow. Cushman, who is also the photographic services administrator at the academy's Margaret Herrick Library, has selected the book's exquisite photographs and movie stills, which range from Pickford at her most winsomely beautiful to her most unrecognizably, even grotesquely, plain. Brownlow, one of our most eloquent guides to silent cinema, provides fascinating background stories and appreciations of the films themselves and of Pickford's amazingly varied incarnations....Brownlow, Kevin is the author of 'Mary Pickford Rediscovered Rare Pictures of a Hollywood Legend' with ISBN 9780810943742 and ISBN 0810943743.