Product Details

• Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jean Firstenberg, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Cammilla Johnson
• Directors: Hugh Munro Neely
• Writers: Rita Mae Brown
• Producers: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Hugh Munro Neely, Edward Stotsenberg, Elaina Archer, Hugh M. Hefner
• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Milestone Video
• VHS Release Date: January 8, 2002
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305938989
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #386,572 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as detailed as I thought it would be..., March 21, 2003

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Silent Girl "S-Girl" (Ontario) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mary Pickford - A Life on Film (DVD)

For an Image Entertainment production, I thought this biography of Mary Pickford would have been much meatier than it actually was. Overall, this biography gives a pretty good outline of Mary Pickford's life. One thing that annoyed me about the film was how they kept referring to Mary as being American; she was a CANADIAN from Toronto and during her middle age she was concerned about losing her Canadian citizenship and renewed it in honour of her parents who were Canadians. CBC did a Pickford documentary as part of their Life and Times series which was very good and only an hour long. I wish CBC would release their documentary on DVD.

They should have included commentary from Eileen Whitfield who wrote a wonderful biography of Pickford in 1997: "Pickford: the Woman Who Made Hollywood". Since Whitfield spent many years doing research for this book, I think she would have been able to give better insight into Mary than someone like Leonard Maltin and the other people who had commentaries in this documentary.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pickford Program Perfection minus 1 * !, May 4, 2005

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Lori Ann (California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mary Pickford - A Life on Film (DVD)

If you have never seen Pickford in action, this is the biography to watch for it is chock full of short footage of the incomparable Mary doing her screen antics. Displaying scenes from her rare unseen silents & talkies, "A Life on Film" made me want to go out searching for Pickford reels to spin for myself. I especially love the scenes of Mary from "Cinderella," "Rosita" (A rare Lubitsch classic) and "Hoodlum!" not to mention "Secrets" which is a Pickford's last talkie. Another thing I love is the home movie footage of Pickford, Chaplin and Douglas. I gave it Minus 1 * because the menu is sparse and there is no extras included. I would have liked a Pickford "Biograph" short to be included or a feature just to wet the appetite of the viewer more but oh well . . . (NOTE TO MILESTONE: Keep those Pickford Pictures coming!!)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "She lives in the movies; it is there that you will find her.", February 25, 2008

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bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mary Pickford - A Life on Film (DVD)

This is an excellent biographical documentary on Mary Pickford (Gladys Smith.) Much more than just a biography of one of the most powerful women in the film industry or in the world for that matter, this presentation depicts the interworking of the film industry of the time.

We see previously unreleased film portions from Mary's personal archive. We also get to watch the highlights of many marvelous films without sitting through the complete viewing. Who would have suspected "The Taming of the Shrew?" Some of the films you will want for your own collection.

The presentation does go in chronological order and even tough we bounce back and forth from diffident presenters as Whoopi Goldberg, and Charles "Buddy" Rogers you do not feel that you are being bombarded with sound bites.

The Taming of the Shrew - Mary Pickford