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Pickford

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Pick·ford  (pkfrd), Mary Originally Gladys Mary Smith. 1893-1979.
Canadian-born American actress who received an Academy Award for her performance in Coquette (1929). She was a founder of the United Artists Corporation (1919).
Pickford [ˈpɪkfəd]
n
(Biographies / Pickford, Mary (1893-1979) F, USnational of birth: Canadian, FILMS AND TV: actress) Mary, real name Gladys Mary Smith. 1893-1979, US actress in silent films, born in Canada
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Noun1.PickfordPickford - United States film actress (born in Canada) who starred in silent films (1893-1979)
Gladys Smith, Mary Pickford


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This was because one of them had told the other that Elizabeth was Mary Pickford.
Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
I know the Misses Osborne were excellent critics of a Cashmere shawl, or a pink satin slip; and when Miss Turner had hers dyed purple, and made into a spencer; and when Miss Pickford had her ermine tippet twisted into a muff and trimmings, I warrant you the changes did not escape the two intelligent young women before mentioned.
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