Tribute to Mary Pickford

[Washington DC]: The American Film Institute Theatre. Very Good+. 1970. First Edition. Stapled wraps. [some age-toning at edges, light soiling to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) 20-page booklet (including covers), issued in conjunction with a Mary Pickford film series -- the first such retrospective of her work, I believe -- presented by the American Film Institute, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, in conjunction with the Mary Pickford Foundation. In addition to the Appreciation, it also includes a one-page essay on Pickford's Biograph shorts, and notes on nine feature films: THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL (1917); REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (1917); STELLA MARIS (1918); DADDY LONG-LEGS (1919); POLLYANNA (1920); LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY (1921); SPARROWS (1926); MY BEST GIRL (1927); and THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (1929). There is also a full filmography, although crammed onto two pages and therefore with only minimal credits. Miss Pickford had no greater fan than Robert Cushman (1946-2009), author of the textual material in this booklet, who would go on to a long career as the photograph curator at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library -- which also happens to be the archival repository of the Mary Pickford papers and (thanks in large measure to Mr. Cushman's efforts) home to the most comprehensive collection of Mary Pickford photographs in the world. .