There were murmurs upstairs. Then Rogers walked slowly down the white steps to his visitor beneath the portrait of Mary Pickford in the spacious living room. He shrugged and shook his head.

DeMille. But when its star Mary Pickford was asked which tree she wanted, she refused them all, indicating only the smallest redwood sprout for her honor, too small to ruin with a plaque.

Mary Pickford in a Pasatiempo sand trap, while Buddy Rogers looks on. (Photo courtesy Pasatiempo Historical Foundation collection) Buddy Rogers at Pasatiempo with Mary Pickford wearing a Santa ...

DeMille. But when its star Mary Pickford was asked which tree she wanted, she refused them all, indicating only the smallest redwood sprout for her honor, too small to ruin with a plaque.

This would star America’s Sweetheart herself, Mary Pickford, the first film star to be known by name. Back in 1905, Pickford played a freckled boy on stage in Hal Reid’s play “The Gypsy Girl ...

in Ditmas Park, built in 1910 for silent film star Mary Pickford, is listed for $2.99 million, according to the New York Post. (Pickford never lived there, choosing to move to California instead.) ...

Picture this: a grand neo-Tudor residence in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park, built for the silent film siren Mary Pickford — the “Queen of Movies” — who never even unpacked her bags. Now ...

Digging through census records, city directories, newspapers accounts, and other primary sources didn’t turn up any mention of Pickford or any Vitagraph founders in association with the property.