Still, he had kind words for Mary Pickford. "I miss my mother," he would say in 2003. "Things didn't work out that much. You know. But I'll never forget her. I think that she was a good woman." ...

Her mother disapproves of Moore ... which becomes one of Hollywood's foremost studios. Adolph Zukor woos Mary Pickford for his company, Famous Players, at $500 a week (over $9000 in 2003 dollars).