1. Jack Pickford was the younger brother of actresses Mary and Lottie Pickford.
24 Facts About Jack Pickford
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Jack Pickford's career declined steadily due to alcohol, drugs and chronic depression.
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John Charles Smith, known as "Jack Pickford", was born in 1896 in Toronto, Ontario, to John Charles Smith, an English immigrant odd-job man of Methodist background, and Charlotte Hennessy Smith, who was Irish Catholic.
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Jack Pickford received his education in public schools and later attended St Francis Military Academy, New York.
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In early January 1910, when the Biograph Company headed west to Los Angeles, California, only Mary was meant to go until Jack Pickford pleaded to join the company as well.
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Jack Pickford appeared in a large number of short films, prior to the mid-1910s, when his sister Mary was at the pinnacle of her fame.
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Later in 1917, Jack Pickford secured the title role in Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and the follow-up Huck and Tom.
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Jack Pickford performed so many of the very stunts that I remember in my own boyhood.
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Jack Pickford was regularly teamed up with onscreen partner Louise Huff.
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In early 1918, after the United States entered World War I, Jack Pickford voluntary joined the US Navy as an enlisted sailor and was stationed at the Third Naval District in Manhattan, New York.
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Jack Pickford became "bitterly disappointed" in the writing quality and directorial style of the film.
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Jack Pickford was determined to buy back the rights, with the intention for a future remake.
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However, Goldwyn and Jack Pickford had creative differences and parted ways.
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Jack Pickford was hired as the director in an attempt to rid him of his depression after the passing of his wife Olive Thomas a year prior.
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Jack Pickford's image was that of the All-American boy, with his sister being "America's Sweetheart".
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Jack Pickford was good friends with James Kirkwood and Bobby Harron, originating from their Biograph days.
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Jack Pickford's sister Mary's first major extravagance was a car, a Stanley Steamer EMF, and Jack nicknamed it the "Even Mama Fell" and "Every Morning Fix it".
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Jack Pickford was filmed once driving a Citroen in Hollywood, a rival of Henry Ford.
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Jack Pickford met actress and Ziegfeld girl Olive Thomas at a beach cafe on the Santa Monica Pier.
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Jack Pickford was intoxicated and tired, and took a large dose of mercury bichloride, a common item for bathroom cleaning.
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Jack Pickford was taken to the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly, where Pickford, together with his former brother-in-law Owen Moore, remained at her side until she died from the poison a few days later.
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Jack Pickford was granted an interlocutory divorce in February 1932 which had yet to be finalized at the time of Pickford's death.
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Mary Jack Pickford recalled in her autobiography that she felt a wave of premonition when watching her brother leave.
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Mary Jack Pickford arranged for his body to be returned to Los Angeles, where he was interred in the private Jack Pickford plot at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.