Mary Pickford signed DW Griffith FDC Motion Pictures actress Academy Award UA

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1975 first day cover honoring film pioneer D.W. Griffith, personally autographed by silent and sound movie legend and Academy Award winner, Mary Pickford. A COA from Hudson Valley Autographs accompanies this item.
Mary Pickford
(April 8, 1892 – May 29,1979) was a Canadian-American film actress and producer with a career thatspanned five decades. A pioneer in the American film industry, sheco-founded
Pickford–Fairbanks Studios
and
United Artists
,and was one of the 36 founders of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts andSciences
.
Cited as "America's Sweetheart" during the
silent film
era, andthe "girl with the curls". She was one of the
Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood
anda significant figure in the development of film acting. She was one of theearliest stars to be billed under her own name, and was one of the mostpopular actresses of the 1910s and 1920s, earning the nickname "Queen ofthe Movies". She is credited with having defined the
ingénue
type in cinema.
She was awarded the second
Academy Award for Best Actress
forher first sound film role in
Coquette
(1929),and she also received an
Academy Honorary Award
in 1976 inconsideration of her contributions to American cinema. The
American Film Institute
ranked her as24th in its 1999 list of
greatest female stars
of classicHollywood Cinema.