Mary Pickford (Used to Eat Roses)

"Mary Pickford" is a song written and produced by Mike Batt for the Georgian-born, British singer Katie Melua. It is Melua's tenth single and the second from her third album, Pictures. It was originally inspired by a daily facts calendar owned by Batt that one day featured the fact that Mary Pickford used to eat roses.

The lyrics talk about the 1910s film actress Mary Pickford and other founders of United Artists. Mentioned in the song are Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, United Artists and Pickfair.^[1]

The song can be seen as a pastiche of the classic silent era Joseph H. Santly song At the Moving Picture Ball since they have a similar rhythm, similar subject matter and indeed they list the same silent-era movie stars.

References

↑ Mary Pickford Lyrics

External links

Katie Melua

Studio albums	Call Off the Search Piece by Piece Pictures The House Secret Symphony Ketevan

Compilation albums	The Katie Melua Collection

Live albums	Live at the O² Arena

Singles	"The Closest Thing to Crazy" "Call Off the Search" "Crawling up a Hill" "Nine Million Bicycles" "I Cried for You"/"Just Like Heaven" "Spider's Web" "It's Only Pain" "Shy Boy" "If You Were a Sailboat" "Mary Pickford" "If the Lights Go Out" "Toy Collection" "Two Bare Feet" "The Flood" "A Happy Place" "To Kill You With A Kiss" "Gold in them Hills" "The Bit That I Don't Get" "Better Than a Dream" "Moonshine" "The Walls of the World" "Forgetting All My Troubles" "I Will Be There"

Other singles	"What a Wonderful World" (with Eva Cassidy)

Related	Discography Dramatico