Alondra Ayala P. 3 12/12/17 Helen Will During the 1920s Helen Wills was a marvelous American tennis player. Wills was the first female athlete to become a global celebrity. She was most known around the world in the late 20s for being the top female competitor in the world, she held that title for eight years from 1927-33, 1935-38. In the early 1920s she won both the California Women's Championship and the National Junior Tournament. By the end of that year she was ranked third among American women, she was only 17 then. By the age of 19 Wills entered the Olympic games and represented the United States. Wills eventually proceeded to win and earn a gold medal. Wills was actually far more advanced than the female competitors at that time that she played and beat some of the top ranked men in her time. On top of that Hills also won 31 Grand Slam titles, 180 straight matches without losing a single set, and two olympic medals. Mary Pickford …show more content…
She was known as “America’s Sweetheart” and was a famous actress in both silent films and talkies which were movies with a soundtrack. Pickford actually began acting at the age of five. She began to be recognized after she made her Broadway debut on The Warrens of Virginia. Pickford was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress, Honorary Academy Award, and was titled the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood Cinema. One of her famous talkie film was Coquette, which received a lot a talk after Pickford cut her hair into a 1920s bob, it became a symbol for female virtue and made the cover in The New York Times. After scoring many box-office hits, Pickford went on to help establish the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Mary Pickford had become so famous, and loved that she was known, back then, as the “Queen of