Mary Pickford and a sort of scary smiley face friend - c. 1920s
Happy Birthday, Mary Pickford (April 8th, 1892 - May 29th, 1979)
“I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart’s blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I’ve loved mine, there can be no short cuts.”
still-she-haunts-me-phantomwise:
Walt Disney purchased the rights to the Tenniel illustrations in 1931. He considered a live-action/animation version of the story, starring Mary Pickford as Alice, and in 1933 some color screen tests were made of her. He registered the title with the Motion Picture Association of America in 1938. (Lenny’s Alice in Wonderland Site)
Mary Pickford and a little friend
A Technicolor Film Test of Mary Pickford. (1926)
The original can containing the nitrate camera negative of this film was labeled “Pickford and Fairbanks Technicolor Test.” This film is Pickford’s costume, hair and makeup color test for her very small, but important role in The Black Pirate (1926.) Although Pickford was not cast in the film, she stood in for leading lady Billie Dove in one key scene: A kiss with real-life husband Fairbanks on the deck of his ship at the film’s finale. The color system featured here, Technicolor Process No. 2, demonstrated a leap forward in terms of technology and was considered far superior to other color techniques of the time. Difficulties with the thickness of the prints, caused by red and green positive images glued together back to back, shrinkage, and adhesive problems, made it difficult to keep the film in focus and the search for a stable, life-like color film system continued.
