The Movie Rating System with Karina Longworth
You're Wrong About
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What Happened to Mary Pickford?
Jack Pickford and his wife, Olive Thomas, who is the flapper, they go to Paris for like a belated hunting moon and she dies. She accidentally grabbed these tablets that he was using topically to treat his syphilis and swallowed one of those. It became this way for people to point fingers at Hollywood and say like even Mary Pickford is associated with all of this depraved shit.
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