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RAMONA DAYS NOVEMBER 5, 2011RANCHO CAMULOS NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK Ramona Comes Home Again! 10am-4pm Rancho Camulos Museum and National Historic Landmark 5164 East Telegraph Road, Piru, CA Performances by the core cast and dancers from the world-famous Hemet Ramona Outdoor Play will highlight the fourth annual “Ramona Days” at the Rancho Camulos Museum in Piru, CA. Helen Hunt Jackson’s 1884 classic California novel Ramona will come to life at the “Home of Ramona” as we celebrate all things Ramona. In addition to seeing vignettes from the play at 11:00, 1:00, and 3:00, visitors can watch the 1910 Mary Pickford movie filmed on location at Camulos, view unique memorabilia and historic displays, experience living history, and attend presentations by Ramona experts including Ramona Memories author Dydia DeLyser and filmmaker Hugh Munro Neely. There will also be food, music, dance, art and craft sales and demonstrations, original artwork by local artists, museum and garden tours, free children’s activities and more. DOWNLOAD PDF Mary Pickford LegacyThe Mary Pickford Foundation, in association with the Mary Pickford Institute, is sponsoring an annual legacy grant to support the presentation of classic Mary Pickford films with live musical accompaniment in communities across the country. Most events are presented free of charge to the public. JUNE & JULY 2011This year the Foundation is supporting two events. In June, as part of the Grand Performances series at California Plaza in Los Angeles, CA, we will premiere Maria Newman's new score to "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." And in July, in Fort Collins, Colorado, we will recreate An Evening at the Movies, circa 1918, with the premiere of the symphonic version of the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra's classic score to Amarilly of Clothesline Alley," as performed live by the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra.
JULY 2010The Mary Pickford Foundation and the Detroit Symphony (Detroit, MI) presented a silent film "extravaganza" with silent filmmaking reenactments, a play about Mary Pickford, and a performance of Sparrows (1926), with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra performing the U.S. premiere of a new score by Jeffrey Silverman.
FEBRUARY 2010 The Mary Pickford Foundation sponsored a Silent Film Experience in Santa Clarita, CA. Mary Pickford’s timeless classic silent film Daddy Long Legs, with a contemporary score composed by Maria Newman, was accompanied by a six-piece chamber ensemble of the Santa Clarita Symphony. Guest conductor, Hugh Munro Neely. Pickford produced and starred in the 1919 film as Judy Abbott, an orphan whose college education is paid for by an anonymous trustee she knows only as “Daddy-Long-Legs.” The comic gem was one of Pickford’s greatest successes upon its original release.MAY 2009The Mary Pickford Foundation and the National Philharmonic Orchestra (Bethesda, MD) presented The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) with score by Philip Carli.
In coming years...you may find a Mary Pickford Foundation performance in many places across the nation - perhaps in your own neighborhood. For more information on applying for a Mary Pickford Foundation Legacy Grant, please contact: Andi Hicks, Director/MPI ... or
Hugh Munro Neely, Director – Archive, Library and Legacy 310-287-3700
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OUR NEW OFFICESDue to the growth of the Mary Pickford Institute and the success of our Mobile Film Classroom, we have moved to a larger facility. Our new second floor offices now includes a multi-purpose room suitable for screenings, classes and seminars. This facility will also provide researchers with more comprehensive access to our collection of films, photographs, papers and personal effects from the collection of Mary Pickford. MARY PICKFORD COLLECTIBLE CARDSDonruss Trading Card Company will feature Mary Pickford's image in each of three Hollywood Icons series of collectible trading cards called Legends of Hollywood. |
