Public Domain Movies

Cinderella (1914)
Running Time: 52 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Isabel Vernon
Based on the fairy tale: Cinderella is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, but is able to go to the royal ball through the help of the Fairy Godmother.

Heart Of The Hills (1919)
Running Time: ## mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford
This film was one of Mary Pickford's attempts to add at least a touch of maturity to her little girl characterizations. She is a Kentucky mountain girl in this romantic adventure film, and Harold Goodwin is the boy who befriends her. Sam DeGrasse was the villain. Future silent-screen idol Jack Gilbert also had a small role.

Johanna Enlists (1918)
Running Time: 72 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Anne Schaefer, Fred Huntley
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

Little American (1917)
Running Time: 65 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton, Walter Long, James Neil, Wallace Beery, Colleen Moore.
Young woman agrees to help the French against Germany when she finds out her aunt has died and her lover is fighting for the Germans. Written by Jeanie MacPherson and Cecil B. DeMille. Dir. Cecil B. DeMille.

Little Annie Rooney (1925)
Running Time: 100 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, William Hines.
Tough, Irish tomboy Pickford mothers her policeman father while getting into trouble with the ethnically diverse denizens of the ghetto. Dir. Charles Chaplin.

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
Running Time: 100 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Claude Gillingwater, Kate Price.
Pickford in dual role as the American orphan who finds out he's the heir to an English dukedom, and the Little Lord's mother (!) in this classic rendering. Dir. John Cromwell.

Love Light (1921)
Running Time: 89 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Evelyn Dumo, Raymond Bloomer
Angela maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes solace in the arms of an American sailor washed ashore. However, the sailor turns out to be a German spy, and she is torn between her love for him and her realization that he is part of the enemy force that has destroyed her family.

My Best Girl (1924)
Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford
Mary attempts to bring her new sweetheart home for dinner with disasterous results.

Pollyanna (1920)
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, J. Wharton James, Katherine Griffith, Herbert Prior.
Happy-go-lucky orphan girl is adopted by a cold-hearted, bitter aunt and tries to bring gladness to everyone she meets.

Poor Little Rich Girl (1916)
Running Time: 64 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Madeline Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks.
Title character is neglected by her fun-loving parents, and left to be raised by a harsh servant. When the servant wants an evening off, she gives the little girl an overdose of sleeping pills, making her dangerously ill.

Pride Of Clan (1916)
Running Time: 67 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Matt Moore, Warren Cook, Joel Day.
When her chieftan father dies at sea, a young woman takes command of the Clan. Dir. Maurice Tourneur.

Pride Of The Clan (1917)
Running Time: 84 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Matt Moore, Warren Cook
Donald MacTavish, the last chieftain of his clan on an island off the coast of Scotland, dies at sea. This leaves his only daughter, Marget, to assume the responsibilities of leadership. Marget's burden is partially eased by her blossoming romance with Jamie Campbell. But there is a secret from Jamie's past that neither of them know about.

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Eugene O'Brian, Helen Jerome Eddy, Marjorie Daw, Jane Wolff.
Young girl is adopted by two stern aunts to relieve her overworked mother, but her girlish ways make the austere aunts send her packing to boarding school. Dir. John Emerson.

Romance Of The Redwoods (1917)
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Elliott Dexter, Tully Marshall
A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.

Sparrows (1926)
Running Time: 81 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Roy Stewart.
Woman cares for nine orphans while trying to fend off starvation and kidnappers. Dir. Victor Saville.

Stella Maris (1918)
Running Time: 72 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Conway Tearle, Marcia Manon, Ida Waterman.
Pickford in dual role as Stella, a beloved, crippled young girl who has been brought up by adoring relatives and servants, and as Unity, a cruelly treated orphan. Dir. Charles Riesner.

Suds (1920)
Running Time: 75 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Albert Austin, Harold Goodwin, Rose Dione.
Laundress with an overactive imagination has a crush on guy who forgot his shirt at the laundry.

Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
Running Time: 118 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford
Pickford's remake of her 1914 film of the same title.

Through The Back Door (1921)
Running Time: 89 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Gertrude Astor, Wilfred Lucas
When her mother remarries, a young Belgian girl is left behind with her nurse, but when Germany invades the country, she is sent to America to find her mother.