Editing Pickfair (section)

== History ==
Located at 1143 Summit Drive in [[San Ysidro Canyon]] in Beverly Hills, the property was a hunting lodge<ref name="LawsonRufus2000" /> when purchased by Fairbanks in 1919 for his bride-to-be, [[Mary Pickford]]. In the 1920s, the newlyweds extensively renovated the lodge, transforming it into a four-story, 25-room<ref name="Inc1947">{{cite magazine|title=Life Visits Pickfair|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1EgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA158|accessdate=20 August 2012|date=17 November 1947|magazine=Life|page=158|issn=0024-3019}}</ref> mansion complete with stables, servants quarters, tennis courts, a large guest wing, and garages.

Remodeled by [[Wallace Neff]] in a [[mock Tudor]] style,<ref name="Wanamaker86" /> it took five years to complete. Ceiling frescos, parquet flooring, wood-paneled halls of fine mahogany and bleached pine, gold leaf, and mirrored decorative niches, all added to the authentic charm of Pickfair. The property was said to have been the first private home in the Los Angeles area to include an in-ground swimming pool, in which Pickford and Fairbanks were famously photographed paddling a canoe.<ref name="Basinger2000">{{cite book|first=Jeanine|last=Basinger|title=Silent Stars|url=https://archive.org/details/silentstars00basi|url-access=registration|accessdate=20 August 2012|date=1 November 2000|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-6451-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/silentstars00basi/page/56 56]}}</ref>

Pickfair featured a collection of early 18th-century English and French period furniture, decorative arts, and antiques. Notable pieces in the collection included furniture from the [[Barberini Palace]], the [[Baroness Burdett-Coutts]] estate in London, and [[Louis XVI furniture]] from the Countess Rodezno and Lord Leverhulme collections.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Erb |first1=William |title="Pickfair" Means Personality |journal=Western Decorator |date=1929 |volume=1 |issue=5 |pages=16–20 |publisher=Keystone Publishing}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sully |first1=Martha |title=A Visit To "Pickfair" - Home Of Mary And Douglas Fairbanks |journal=The Silent Hostess |date=1930 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=14–16 |publisher=The General Electric Company}}</ref> The highlight of any visit to Pickfair was a large collection of Chinese objets d'art collected by Fairbanks and Pickford on their many visits to the Orient. The Pickfair art collection was wide and varied and included paintings by [[Philip Mercier]], [[Guillaume Seignac]], [[George Romney (painter)|George Romney]], and [[Paul de Longpré]].

The mansion also featured an Old West-style saloon complete with an ornate burnished mahogany bar obtained from a saloon in [[Auburn, California]], and paintings by Frederic Remington. In the 1970 Volume 2, Number 10 issue of ''Mankind Magazine'' it states there were twelve Remingtons from 1907 purchased from the Cosmopolitan Publishing Company that "were Mary Pickford's gift to her husband, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers". The interior of Pickfair was decorated and updated throughout the years by Marilyn Johnson Tucker, Elsie De Wolfe, [[Château Élysée|Marjorie Requa]],<ref>
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</ref> Tony Duquette, and Kathryn Crawford.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sherman |first1=Rebecca |title=More Always More: Tony Duquette |url=https://www.papercitymag.com/home-design/designer-toby-duquette-dawnridge-beverly-hills-texas-design-week-houston/#197892 |website=Paper City |accessdate=14 May 2020}}</ref>

During the 1920s, the house became a focal point for Hollywood's social activities, and the couple became famous for entertaining there. An invitation to Pickfair was a sign of social acceptance into the closed Hollywood community. In 1928, [[Will Rogers]] said "My most important duty as mayor of Beverly Hills is directing people to Mary Pickford's house".<ref name=Pickobit>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Daily Variety]]|date=May 30, 1979|page=1|title=Mary Pickford, 86, First Great Film Star, Dies Five Days After Massive Stroke}}</ref>

Dinners at Pickfair became legendary; guests included [[Charlie Chaplin]] (who lived next door), the [[Duke of Windsor]] and [[Duchess of Windsor]], [[Dorothy Gish|Dorothy]] and [[Lillian Gish]], [[Mildred Harris]], [[Greta Garbo]], [[George Bernard Shaw]], [[Albert Einstein]], [[Elinor Glyn]], [[Helen Keller]], [[H.G. Wells]], [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Lord Louis Mountbatten]], [[Fritz Kreisler]], [[Tony Duquette]], [[Amelia Earhart]], [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], [[Joan Crawford]], [[Noël Coward]], President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], [[Pearl S. Buck]], [[Charles Lindbergh]], [[Max Reinhardt]], [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Thomas Edison]], [[Gloria Swanson]], the Duke and [[Duchess of Alba]], the King and [[Queen consort of Siam|Queen of Siam]], [[Austen Chamberlain]], [[Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko]],<ref name="BertenssonFryer2004">{{cite book|first1=Sergei|last1=Bertensson|first2=Paul|last2=Fryer|first3=Anna|last3=Shoulgat|title=In Hollywood with Nemirovich-Danchenko, 1926–1927: the memoirs of Sergei Bertensson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-q7vtY7jXUC&pg=PA47|accessdate=19 July 2010|year=2004|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-4988-4|pages=47–}}</ref> the spiritual teacher [[Meher Baba]], and Sir [[Harry Lauder]]. Lauder's nephew, Matt Lauder Jr., a professional golfer whose family had a property at [[Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California]], taught Fairbanks to play golf.

Fairbanks and Pickford divorced in January 1936, but Pickford continued to reside in the mansion with her third husband, actor and musician [[Charles "Buddy" Rogers]],<ref name="Inc1947" /> until her death in 1979. Pickford received few visitors in her later years, but continued to open up her grand home for charitable organizations and parties, including an annual Christmas party for blind war veterans, mostly from [[World War I]].<ref name=Pickobit/>

In 1976, Pickford received a second Academy Award for contribution to American film. The [[Academy Honorary Award]] was presented to her in the formal living room of Pickfair, and televised on the [[48th Academy Awards]]. Introduced and narrated by [[Gene Kelly]], it gave the public a rare glimpse inside the fabled mansion.<ref>{{cite AV media | title = Mary Pickford receiving an Honorary Oscar at The 48th Annual Academy Awards | date = March 29, 1976 | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vXhqrbSeOE}}</ref>