Mary Pickford: The Child-Woman

Watch a 2-minute video featuring America's first movie star "America's Sweetheart," silent actress Mary Pickford (a Canadian actually), who rose to fame portraying little girls well into her thirties.

As the YouTube poster notes, over-sized sets were built to accentuate her already petite frame in order to make her look as childlike as possible.

At the age of 26, she portrays both child and woman in the 1919 feature, Daddy-Long-Legs, to be screened this Friday, March 30, 7:30PM at Page Hall, University at Albany downtown. Free as always.