America's Sweetheart

Feature · Other · 144 pages
When charming young Galdys tries help her family get out of poverty by joining the theater, she discovers her talent for performing. After moving to New York, she meets David Belasco and soon enough ‘the girl with the golden curls’ becomes Mary Pickford. But her growing success as an actress and her tenacity as a business-savvy producer comes at a p...
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Written by Leah Rifkin and Sonja Verpoort

2 Writers

Thornhill, Ontario, CA
Leah is a screenwriter and Visionscapes Realities. She is an award-winning director, producer, and author of "Beyond The Director's Chair". She has produced web series ("Wallflower", "Out Of Frame"), short films, music videos, and her latest digital content venture: "The Sonic Room". She is developing a series of hard Disclosure projects. She is als...
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Toronto, Ontario, CA
Sonja Verpoort's most recent script, Salem’s Diary, was one of two Canadian winners in the 2021 JETS competition and was a shortlisted finalist in the 2020 ScreenCraft Drama competition. Her television pilot, End of Days, was the Pilot Screenplay Competition Winner in the 2017 Atlanta Film Festival. Her short film was an official selection in the 2...
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