49 Inspiring Vintage Photos of Extraordinary Women

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The Girl With The Golden Curls, Mary Pickford (1918)

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Widely known in her prime as “The Girl with the Golden Curls” as well as “America’s Sweetheart,” Mary Pickford was actually Canadian. The famous actress and producer was born Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto, Canada, and she and her two siblings toured the United States with their mother and performed in Broadway plays. She rose to fame from “Blondilocks” to “Queen of the Movies,” becoming one of the most popular actresses in early Hollywood in the 1910s and 1920s.

Aside from winning the second ever Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1929 drama film Coquette, Mary also received an honorary Academy Award in 1976 and was listed among the greatest female celebrities of classic Hollywood Cinema. Moreover, she co-founded the movie studio United Artists along with one of the most important figures in film history Charlie Chaplin, the most important film director of his generation D.W. Griffith, and her future husband Douglas Fairbanks.

Known for her gorgeous golden curls, Mary pulled off a Britney Spears and shocked her fans when she had her long locks shorn off after her mother died of breast cancer.