My Smeg Retro Icon is...

Hello everyone, today in english ;)

This post is my entry for Vixen Vintage's Blog lottery.   You might want to try to win yourself, go visit her wonderful blog!

 My Smeg Icon is Mary Pickford, "The girl with the curls"! 

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Pickford was believed to be the most famous woman in the world, throughout the 1910s and 1920s. A silent-film journalist described her as "the best known woman who has ever lived, the woman who was known to more people and loved by more people than any other woman that has been in all history."

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A strong, instersting, adorable and beautiful woman - and a Style-Icon!

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"I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely"

 

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"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo"

This reminds me of the movie "The Artist"...

"It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around"
 

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"Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that"

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"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down"...