Fairly scarce (I've seen one other,) hand-signed Mary Pickford correspondence card. "Miss Mary Pickford wishes to express her thanks for your charming letter of appreciation of her work. She trusts you will continue to enjoy her pictures and she encloses her photograph with best wishes and kindest regards. Mary Pickford. 108 St. Andrews Place, Los Angeles, California." 1914. Part of NZ Photo Album.
As a side note, Mary and her mother leased the property for 6 months in early-1914. They were subsequently sued, for $111.44, by the owner of the property, Florence S. Porter, for skipping out one month's rent, allowing her dog “to sleep on some costly tapestried cushions,” damaging a brick column with her car, and damaging the hardwood floors -- the plaintiff's lawyer also noting, “Late revelries and orgies.” Mary argued the house was unsafe due to sewer gas, her wardrobe was ruined by leaking plumbing, she contracted a cold when the furnace out of commission due to a flooded basement, and she “missed an important engagement when her automobile was held by a cavein of the cement driveway.” Mary ultimately won the suit but her mother had to pay a $6.40 water bill.
The house was located at 108 South St. Andrews Pl. and has since been demolished. There are several photos of both the inside and outside of this house out there in the world, often erroneously noted as being a supposed house at 1403 N. Western Ave. (which itself is a mystery... but that is whole other story.) The two photos seen here from AMPAS are for reference only and not part of this collection.
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