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Pickfair was a sprawling estate in Beverly Hills, California purchased and further renovated in 1919 by silent film actress Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks, the "Queen and King of Hollywood." The 25-room mansion was named by combining parts of their last names ("Pick" + "fair").
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Pickfair was considered one of the most celebrated private homes of America, and became a famous symbol of Hollywood glamour and excess in the 1920s/30s. It hosted iconic parties with famous guests like Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, F. Scott Fitzgerald and presidents Coolidge and Roosevelt. Life magazine described it as “a gathering place only slightly less important than the White House… and much more fun.”
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After divorcing Douglas Fairbanks in 1936, Mary Pickford married actor Charles "Buddy" Rogers and continued living in Pickfair until her death, in 1979. A new owner, actress Pia Zadora, eventually demolished the mansion in 1990, despite some outcry. Zadora later claimed the place was haunted: “You can deal with termites, and you can deal with plumbing issues, but you can’t deal with the supernatural.”
A new mansion stands on the site bearing no resemblance to the original Pickfair.
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redhairclara · 3 months
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Mary Pickford photographed by Max Lindstedt, 1920.
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adrian-paul-botta · 1 year
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Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford (1935 at Pickfair residence)
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chaplinfortheages · 8 months
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Pickfair - Charlie, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford (on his shoulder) in the pool, in background sitting on lawn, Marilyn Miller and husband Jack Pickford, 1922.
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flynnfan-downunder · 2 years
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Mary Pickford and Errol Flynn. From the 1936 radio show PARTIES AT PICKFAIR.
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christophechoo · 2 years
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Touring Tuesday in Beverly Hills overlooking the famed Pickfair Mansion. #beverlyhills #pickfair #realtor #realtorlife #lovebevhills @lovebevhills (at Beverly Hills, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CivX2mTPCFt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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dean-boese-universe · 4 months
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In this episode, Krysta takes us into her corner to tell us about school and how holiday stress is beginning to creep in. She also talks about how hard it is to have a caregiver personality and not take time for one's self. Then we dive in and learn about Mary Pickford, aka Gladys Marie Smith. We learn about her birth, her early life, her time on the Toronto stage before coming to America to get on Broadway ere she became a queen of the silver screen! We talk her loves, her triumphs, her failures and her death in this special, man ain't ladies grand episode of the Family Plot Podcast!
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vintage-every-day · 14 days
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Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in their pool at Pickfair.
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marypickfords · 1 year
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Mary Pickford at Pickfair, photographed by James Abbe in 1925.
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the1920sinpictures · 1 year
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1926 c. Doug Fairbanks and Mary Pickford at home at Pickfair for Christmas. From America in the 1920′s, FB.
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norashelley · 1 year
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Never too busy to aid a worthy cause, many celebrities, who already have donated greatly to aid war torn England, attended the Hollywood Guild's annual garden party, proceeds of which were given to the British War Relief. Held at Mary Pickford's home, Pickfair, here with Buddy Rogers, Mrs. C.C. Youngreen, and Lillian Gish.
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airk · 1 year
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1920s.  Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford at their home Pickfair in Beverley Hills in the early 1920s
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random-racehorses · 7 months
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Random Real Thoroughbred: DR. BILLY
DR. BILLY is a bay horse born in Venezuela in 2001. By THAKIB out of PICKFAIR. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/dr+billy
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adrian-paul-botta · 1 year
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Lillian Gish and Malcolm - Beverly Hills, Pickfair residence 1939
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chaplinfortheages · 8 months
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Charlie with Lady Edwina Mountbatten and Robert M. Thompson on the set of and home of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford "Nice and Friendly" 1922.
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flynnfan-downunder · 2 years
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Mary Pickford and Errol Flynn, from the 1936 radio show PARTIES AT PICKFAIR.
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