Editing Coquette (film) (section)

==Release==
[[File:Coquette lobby card.jpg|thumb|Lobby card]]
The film premiered in New York on April 5, 1929, at the Rivoli Theatre.<ref>New York Times, April 6, 1929</ref> A fuse blew rendering the film silent. It was rewound and shown again, this time with intermittent, bad sound. Finally technicians were able to fix the problem and the film began again for a third time.<ref name="Whitfield-262" />

Contemporary reviews were polite and warm. It was a box office success grossing $1.4 million. ''Coquette'' launched Pickford as a competent talkie star.<ref>{{harvnb|Whitfield|1997|pages=262–263}}</ref>

Complete prints of the film still exist. In the 1990s it was restored by the [[Library of Congress]] and The Mary Pickford Institute. Pickford's estate no longer owns the rights as MGM (ironically parent company of UA) bought the film for a never-made remake. ''Coquette'' was released on home video by [[MGM/UA Home Video]] in the 1990s. It is one of two United Artists' films owned by [[Turner Entertainment]] as part of [[MGM]]'s pre-1986 library and distributed by [[Warner Bros.]], and has been released on DVD via [[Warner Archive Collection]].

=== Accolades ===
Pickford was a founding member of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]], of which her husband would be the first president. She was one of only three female founding members.

The first [[Academy Awards]] were held in 1929, without any nominations for Pickford. She was nominated for Best Actress in 1930 for the [[2nd Academy Awards]]. Many have accused Pickford of unfairly winning, using her clout and standing in the industry for an award of which she was unworthy. 
Pickford did lobby hard for the Oscar, inviting the judges over for tea at her home [[Pickfair]].<ref>{{harvnb|Whitfield|1997|page=263}}</ref> However her performance was critically and publicly acclaimed. Pickford would receive another Oscar in 1976, an honorary lifetime achievement award.

In 2008, a legal battle ensued between The {{not a typo|Academy}} and [[Charles "Buddy" Rogers|Buddy Rogers]]' heirs over the sale of the ''Coquette'' Oscar. The heirs were trying to sell the award for charity, as stipulated in Rogers's second wife's will. The {{not a typo|Academy}} insisted that the Award must be offered back to them for $1, to comply with a rule made long after Pickford won her Oscar. They claimed that when she won her honorary Oscar in the 1970s she signed a contract covering the ''Coquette'' statuette as well. The heirs argued that it might not have even been her signature, as Pickford was frail at the end of her life.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/10/oscar-custody-b.html | work=The Los Angeles Times | title=L.A. Now | date=October 28, 2008}}</ref>

The {{not a typo|Academy}} won the legal battle, but announced they were willing to pursue a private agreement with the heirs. The outcome of this agreement is unknown.