Shield, Blanche

Mary Pickford, America's Sweetheart, was a star of both stage and film. Born in Toronto, Canada in 1893 she is best known as a star of silent films. Her first film was with Biograph studio where she was taken on by D. W. Griffith. Among her films are The Little American (1917), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921), and Rosita (1923). Her career in sound films was short-lived and included an Oscar winning performance in Coquette (1929), and The Taming of the Shrew (1929). She was married to Owen Moore, Douglas Fairbanks and Charles "Buddy" Rogers. She died in 1979.

Charles "Buddy" Rogers was born in Olanthe, Kansas in 1904. A leading man in early Hollywood films, Rogers appeared opposite Mary Pickford in My Best Girl (1927). Other films include Wings (1927), Abie's Irish Rose (1928), and The Road to Reno (1931) to name a few. He married Mary Pickford in 1935 and was her husband until her death in 1979.