- Actors: Mary Pickford
- Format: Dolby, NTSC, Surround Sound
- Language: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: St. Clair Ent.Group
- Release Date: April 15 2008
- Run Time: 297 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B0013NAMW4
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #54,291 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty good presentation for a budget release,
By Silent Girl "S-Girl" (Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mary Pickford Signature Collection (DVD)
This DVD contains 4 classic Mary Pickford films: Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917), Pollyanna (1919) and Little Annie Rooney (1925) plus a photo gallery of Mary photos, movie stills and movie promotional posters (set to some garish music). The photo gallery contains one picture that is NOT of Mary Pickford; it is a photo still of Mary Astor and Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera. (Oh, how'd that get in there?).The quality of Poor Little Rich Girl, Pollyanna, and Little Annie Rooney are very good and watchable. There are some minor picture disturbances that suggest this DVD contains VHS source transfers of these films in the making of this DVD collection. The quality of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is not the greatest; at times, the picture is fuzzy and over-exposed looking but still watchable. The music scores for 3 of the four films sounds like this weird circus organ-type sounding music that can get annoying after a while. The Rebecca film's score is more violin classic music. All in all, this is a pretty good release considering you get 4 Pickford films in decent and watchable shape. These films have not been restored or released by the better silent movie restoration companies like Image Entertainment and Kino Video. Still, if you are curious to see what these 4 films of Mary's are like and if you're a diehard fan of hers, for $5.99 this release is well worth the money.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews) 15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Four Major Pickford Films in a Low Cost Collection,
By Tee - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Mary Pickford Signature Collection (DVD)
This very inexpensive single disc DVD features four essential Mary Pickford films POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL (1917), REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (1917), POLLYANNA (1920), and LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY (1925). Print quality is fair to good, ANNIE's print is very good. This set is a great bargain and the 1917 titles are fairly rare so this is a must for any Pickford or silent movie fan. However, the musical score for three of the films is a carousel-like organ piano that is often inappropiate for the scenes in the movie, for example it happily pipes away during the segment of one film in which Mary is informed of the death of her father!! You might want to turn off the sound. This was done by a budget company so don't expect the quality of the pricier titles authorized by the Pickford estate by Image but still it's very nice to see this set on the market, one of the few silent "budget" dvd sets out there other than Chaplin or Keaton titles. The "bonus feature" is a nice collection of Pickford images including movie posters. At only a dollar a movie, you could hardly quibble about this collection and I'm happy to own a copy of it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pleasant collection,
By Readz Alot - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Mary Pickford Signature Collection (DVD)
Nice selection of Pickford films.Be aware that these films are also included in the "Silent Cinema 3 disc collection" so, if you buy that one, don't make the same mistake I did and buy this one as well. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Sweet films, Rotten copies,
By Susan Z. Swan "com prof" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mary Pickford Signature Collection (DVD)
These films are really sweet and give an excellent opportunity to see "America's sweetheart" in four of her most famous "little girl" roles. While it is lovely to have any access at all to these films, the transfers are definitely in the budget range. If you can pick this up for $4 or $5, then go for it, but don't expect more than a hint of what the films were really like. And definitely do NOT use these transfers as a model for what silent film is like--it would kill the love before it got started. The maddening calliope music for 3 of the 4 films is wretched: it is much better to turn off the sound and play different background music. Indeed, one is just as well off to head over to the Internet Archive and watch them for free--the quality there, poor as it is, is pretty much the same as on these disks.
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