Jack Pickford — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

Jack Pickford, brother of “America’s sweetheart,” has been in motion pictures twelve years, and during that time he has been actor, author and director.

He was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1896. At a very early age he went on the stage with his mother and two sisters, Mary and Lottie Pickford, doing child parts in various stock companies.

One of his first engagements was with Chauncey Olcott in a play entitled The Three of Us. With very few intervals of rest, he played almost constantly from the age of six until the beginning of his screen career in 1910. These early days were full of the usual vicissitudes incidental to engagements with stock companies and traveling players. Although associated for the greater part of this time with his mother and the rest of his family, he often toured the country alone with no other counsel or guardians than the other members of the troupe.

His entrance into the film world was under the auspices of the old Biograph company, in New York in 1910. His first screen appearance was in the “Modern Prodigal,” produced by this company. Leaving the Biograph to join Pathé, he was starred in boy parts in several pictures. Then, for a short time, he played juvenile parts with Marguerite Clark.

In 1916 his screen career began in earnest. He was starred in a number of notable successes with the Famous Players, among which were Booth Tarkington’s Seventeen, “Great Expectations,” “The Dummy,” “Freckles,” “The Ghost House,” “The Girl at Home,” “Tom Sawyer,” “Huck and Tom,” “Bunker Bean,” “The Varmint” and “Mile-a-Minute Kendall.” Following his engagement he did three pictures under his own management.

His latest picture, “Garrison’s Finish,” was produced by the Mary Pickford company and released early in 1923.

Jack Pickford was wed during the summer of 1922 to Miss Marilyn Miller, star of Sally.

Mr. Pickford is dark, slight of build, weighing about 135 pounds. He is about five feet seven inches in height.

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Portrait by Straus Peyton • Los Angeles

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)