{"id":18679,"date":"2019-08-28T07:12:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=18679"},"modified":"2019-08-28T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T00:20:01","slug":"mary-pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-royal-air-force-students-at-pickfair-beverly-hills-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2019\/08\/28\/mary-pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-royal-air-force-students-at-pickfair-beverly-hills-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Pickford (in the white suit) entertains young Royal Air Force students at Pickfair, Beverly Hills, 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18680\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2019\/08\/28\/mary-pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-royal-air-force-students-at-pickfair-beverly-hills-1944\/mary-pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-royal-air-force-students-at-her-estate-in-hollywood-in-1944\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary-Pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-Royal-Air-Force-students-at-her-estate-in-Hollywood-in-1944.png?fit=1576%2C1122&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1576,1122\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mary Pickford (in the white suit) entertains young Royal Air Force students at Pickfair, Beverly Hills, 1944\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary-Pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-Royal-Air-Force-students-at-her-estate-in-Hollywood-in-1944.png?fit=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary-Pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-Royal-Air-Force-students-at-her-estate-in-Hollywood-in-1944.png?fit=640%2C456&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18680 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary-Pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-Royal-Air-Force-students-at-her-estate-in-Hollywood-in-1944.png?resize=640%2C456&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mary Pickford (in the white suit) entertains young Royal Air Force students at Pickfair, Beverly Hills, 1944\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary-Pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-Royal-Air-Force-students-at-her-estate-in-Hollywood-in-1944.png?resize=1024%2C729&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary-Pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-Royal-Air-Force-students-at-her-estate-in-Hollywood-in-1944.png?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary-Pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-Royal-Air-Force-students-at-her-estate-in-Hollywood-in-1944.png?resize=768%2C547&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary-Pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-Royal-Air-Force-students-at-her-estate-in-Hollywood-in-1944.png?w=1576&amp;ssl=1 1576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary-Pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-Royal-Air-Force-students-at-her-estate-in-Hollywood-in-1944.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>When Mary Pickford was married to Douglas Fairbanks (1920 to 1936) their palatial estate, Pickfair, was filled with visiting royalty and A-list stars of stage and screen. After they split up, and Mary later married Buddy Rogers (1937 to her death in 1979,) Pickfair wasn\u2019t nearly so often packed with luminaries. But if this photo is anything to go by, Mary did what she could for the servicemen passing through Los Angeles en route to the war by opening up the house for their enjoyment. This photo was taken in 1944 on a day when she entertained Royal Air Force students. What British trainee pilots would be doing in LA I\u2019m not really sure, but they sure seem to be having a whale of a time.<\/h3>\n<h3>Manuel D. said: &#8220;<span dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"_3l3x\"><em>RAF flight cadets were trained at contract flight schools at various locations in the USA. Several groups were trained at flight schools in San Bernadino and Riverside counties<\/em>.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mary Pickford was married to Douglas Fairbanks (1920 to 1936) their palatial estate, Pickfair, was filled with visiting royalty and A-list stars of stage and screen. After they split up, and Mary later married Buddy Rogers (1937 to her &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2019\/08\/28\/mary-pickford-in-the-white-suit-entertains-young-royal-air-force-students-at-pickfair-beverly-hills-1944\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,18,48],"class_list":["post-18679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beverly-hills","tag-movie-stars","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-4Rh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18689,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18679\/revisions\/18689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}