Mary Pickford and starlets pose for a Motion Picture Relief Fund charity event, Los Angeles, circa 1929 |

Mary Pickford and starlets pose for a Motion Picture Relief Fund charity event, Los Angeles, circa 1929 Here we have little Mary Pickford (and I do mean little, she was only 5’1’’) standing in front of a magnificent Cord L-29 that had been donated in 1929 as a fundraiser for a worthwhile and much-needed project Motion Picture Relief Fund which in turn built the Motion Picture Country House, which provides full-time living accommodation for older people who worked in the film and television industry. Mary spearheaded it (along with Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, and Charlie Chaplin, with whom she created United Artists) when they saw a need for those working in movies who were down on their luck. Their slogan was “Taking Care of Our Own,” which shows us how Mary cared about giving back to the industry that gave her so much.