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Famous motion picture actress Mary Pickford wrote her inspirational self-help manual "Why Not Try God?" in 1934, with the aid of her collaborator Adela Rogers St. Johns. For nearly eighty years its thoughtful approach toward spirituality has encouraged and inspired her audience. Pickford's positive approach gives anyone, believer or non-believer, a rationale on which to build faith, and a path to understanding the difficulties we face in life. It contains her most famous quote: ..".this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down," along with her prescription...

Mary Pickford's "My Rendezvous with Life" was her sequel, of sorts, to her earlier best-seller, "Why Not Try God?" Like the earlier work, this is in the form of an essay. This new edition, the first in many years, includes a new Afterword by film historian Dr. Anke Brouwers, and a comment on the unattributed poem, "The Ship," that Pickford uses to close her short book. "My Rendezvous with Life" presents Mary Pickford's thoughts on what it is to lose a loved one, and why she believes that there is an afterlife in which we may be reunited with those we have lost. It is a non-denominational...