Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford

Original - A lobby card from the 1921 film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy starring Mary Pickford.

Reason

A high quality historic image that serves an encyclopedic function at several articles. Mary Pickford was one of the leading film stars of the silent era and cofounded the United Artists studio. This is also an example of a lobby card that illustrates both the famous children's book Little Lord Fauntleroy and the Fauntleroy suit. Restored version of Image:MaryPickford.jpg.

Articles this image appears in

Mary Pickford, Movie poster, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 00:03, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support Excellent scan. High encylcopedic value. Well utilized in articles. smooth0⁷0₇ (talk) 02:03, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support per others. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 04:04, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Are you sure that the illustration is by Frances Hodgson Burnett? Burnett was the author of the book Little Lord Fauntleroy, and didn't even do the illustrations for that (Reginald Birch did). It seems unlikely that the author of the book (who would have been over 70 by this time) would also have illustrated advertisements for one of its film adaptations. TSP (talk) 12:56, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Right you are: this should be a lesson to me not to take bibliographic notes before morning coffee. Double checked and adjusted. :) Durova^Charge! 15:50, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support It is a good card of a lot of things, very attractive in itself, nice quality scan, compelling image for people to click on. Does anyone ever go further afield than Canada to try to give the Wikipedia main page at least a pretense of being international when it comes to poster/cards? --Blechnic (talk) 21:59, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Last month I did an Australian poster with Steve Crossin. I'm working on France. Stay tuned. :) (and fwiw generous copyright laws kinda help Yanks like me...) Durova^Charge! 22:18, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support Proposed alternate caption: "Durova securing model release from recalcitrant male." Fletcher (talk) 05:21, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support. It's beautiful (and she is/was, as well). Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 12:46, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support although I don't agree that she's at all beautiful.Greener Cactus (talk) 20:19, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:MaryPickford4.jpg MER-C 03:36, 12 July 2008 (UTC)