Mary Pickford
Movie Actress
Known as America's Sweetheart, this silent film star co-founded United Artists. The American Film Institute called her the 24th-greatest actresses of all time.
She toured the country in third-rate plays with her family.
She was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
She married three times; her the longest marriage was to Charles Rogers from 1937 to 1979.
She was once married to Douglas Fairbanks Sr.