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Order Number	00106849
Title	Mary Pickford and husband
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 1009
Date	Circa 1947
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;27 x 22 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Historical Data	Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born silent film actress, famously known as "America's sweetheart" co-founder of American Artists film studio, and one of the original founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Buddy Rogers was an actor and a jazz musician.; When United Artists was formed in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith, they did not intend to have an actual studio; the company was solely a distribution company whose mission was to release films made by independent producers. Pickford and Fairbanks owned an 18-acre property, which came to be known as the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio. Over time United Artists began to lure independent producers away from the large studios, so producers like Samuel Goldwyn and Joseph Schenck rented offices and stages on the property. It was later renamed the United Artists Studio in the late 1920s, however, it operated as a separate entity from the United Artists distribution company. When Goldwyn left United Artists in 1940, the lot was renamed the Samuel Goldwyn Studio. This name change resulted in a lengthy court battle with Mary Pickford, who still owned half of the studio. Eventually Goldwyn became the sole owner of the property. The studio known as the Samuel Goldwyn Studio until 1980, when it was purchased by Warner Bros.
Description	Photograph caption reads"Mary Pickford, 'Americas sweetheart', of the silent screen, today lost her 5-year fight to gain possession of the old United Artists studio lot when Samuel Goldwyn Productions outbid her in a court sale conducted by Superior Court judge Paul Mourse."
Subject	Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979. Pickford, Mary,--1892-1979--Trials, litigation, etc. Rogers, Buddy,--1904-1999. Samuel Goldwyn, Inc.--Trials, litigation, etc. Motion picture actors and actresses--United States. Trials--California--Los Angeles. Motion picture studios--California--Los Angeles. Couples--California--Los Angeles. Jazz musicians--United States. Motion picture studios--Ownership--California--Los Angeles. Women--California--Los Angeles. Men--California--Los Angeles. Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection