3-022-233 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Senior Sitting Together Amongst a Bed of Flowers in Paris, 1920. '...a couple that all the world seemed crazy to meet. Idols of the Silver Screen have always provided a great attraction, but no subsequent display of fan worship has ever quite come up to what those two received. A golden-haired little Hollywood actress and her romantic, acrobatic husband.. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. London, Paris - every European capital was their oyster, and wherever they went it was flowers and general hysteria. In such a new medium as the cinema was then, these two were the first real stars in the whole bright firmament. The World's Sweetheart, they called her, and to many Mary Pickford personified that whole first generation of really free women, ready to do any man's job, and maybe even do it better'. From "Time To Remember - The Plunge Into Peace", 1920 (Reel 3); events of 1920 - weddings, women's rights, industrial unrest and problems in Ireland