The World's First Movie Star and the Woman Who Built Hollywood.

 

Overview

Long before modern celebrities, there was Mary Pickford.
 

Actress. Studio founder. Business visionary. Academy founder.
 

Michelle uncovers the remarkable story of the woman whose decisions shaped nearly every aspect of today's entertainment industry, revealing why Mary Pickford remains one of history's most influential and overlooked pioneers.

You know the name Charlie Chaplin... but what if there was someone even more powerful?
 

The woman who invented Hollywood... and almost nobody knows her name.
 

Before there were movie stars, there was Mary Pickford.
 

She wasn't simply America's Sweetheart. She was one of the most powerful women in the world, co-founder of United Artists alongside Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, a driving force behind the Academy Awards, and one of the architects of the modern film industry. She accomplished all of this before women even had the right to vote.

 

Through fascinating stories, rare photographs, surprising behind-the-scenes history, and Michelle's years of research while writing her feature screenplay The Girl Behind Hollywood, audiences discover the extraordinary woman whose influence still shapes every movie we watch today.
 

If you love Hollywood history, strong women, entrepreneurship, storytelling, or simply discovering remarkable people history somehow forgot, this presentation is for you.

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