100 Years of Beauty (3)
Mary Bikofu, whose original name was Gladys Smith, entered the American film industry at the age of 16 and gradually became one of the most popular actresses of the American silent film era in the films of David Griffith and others.
She has beautiful blonde hair, a slender figure, and a smile that is often admirable. Mary excelled at playing cute, innocent little girls, earning her the titles of "Sweetheart of America" and "Lover of the World."
Mary plays most of the roles of naïve girls, and she worries that the homogenization of the role will annoy the audience, and has repeatedly tried to change the direction of her standardized performance, but in the end, she can't resist the public pressure and returns to her typical role.
The audience was still fascinated by her girlish style, and as her fame grew, Mary's acting career also rose steadily, and she was the most beautiful and richest and most famous woman in the world at her peak.
After becoming famous, Mary is not satisfied with a salary of only a few tens of dollars a week in a company, she is a smart and business-minded person, fame can make her earn more, so Mary in order to higher salary and greater performance rights, constantly change the court, enter more film companies and sign with the boss to become their artists, get more performance opportunities.
Mary Beckford's fame soared, her salary doubled to $1,000 a week, and she became the world's highest-paid actress.
Mary was a talented actress, and in other respects especially for film producers and screenwriters Mary, forming a production company named after her stage name in 1916 and joining forces with Chaplin and others in 1919 to form the United American Film Company. She is also one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 1928, the 35-year-old Bi Kefu felt that it was impossible to rely on "girlish style" to attract movie fans, and decided to change his image. So she cut off her signature blonde hair, repurposed the short hair that was popular at the time, and chose an unusual character, Norma Bescent, the "modern" girl in "The Windy Woman". In the film, she plays a fashionable girl in a small southern town, who falls in love with a young man, but is strongly opposed by her father. Her father killed her lover, and she finally lost her life. Mary's performance was mesmerizing, and many viewers shed tears for her performance. But what Mary lacks is gentleness and delicacy, which limits her role to the world of innocent maidens. Although the film was not well received, it won Mary an Oscar for Best Actress.
But this award is Mary secretly canvassed to get the vote, on the eve of the award, Bi Kefu invited all the judges of the central jury to her villa for a banquet, she became the winner of the award, at this time the excited Mary was overwhelmed and even found a reporter to take a photo with her and the little golden man before the Oscars, the whole world knows the dark curtain of the Oscar awards, the american film academy is ashamed and angry, and promulgated a series of judges' rules related to fairness, putting an end to this blatant canvassing behavior.
In 1933, Mary finished filming the film "Secret", which ended in failure after the release of the film, and Mary, who was hit by many blows, planned to bid farewell to the film world. In the mid-1930s, Mary regularly broadcast on radio radio stations and published several books, including her 1955 memoir Sunshine and Shadows.
Mary Beckford has acted in hundreds of films in her life, although the roles are similar, but her interpretation of the innocence and pure love of the girl has deeply entered people's hearts.