Mary Pickford - Cecil B. Demille - Wallace Reid - Lasky Home Guard - Photograph - 1917

Mary Pickford in her Lady Duff Gordon ensemble (which incidentally can be seen in The Little American.) and the Lasky Home Guard. Typed on verso, "HOLLYWOOD 1917 -- When the time comes for a historian to chronicle the events of Hollywood, he will undoubtedly give more than passing attention to the remarkable story of the studio home guard, which was formed at the outbreak of the World War on the old Paramount lot, then known as Famous Players-Lasky Corp. Photo shows organization ceremonies. Left to right, Henry Woodward, actor; Cecil B. DeMille, director; Mary Pickford, actress and honorary colonel; David Archer, electrician; Wallace Reid, actor and color bearer, and J. S. Stembridge, actor. Six hundred men were trained." Gifted from the Pamela Short Collection.