Exclusive | Brooklyn home built for legendary film titan lists for $3M but she never actually lived there

Picture this: a grand neo-Tudor residence in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park, built for the silent film siren Mary Pickford — the “Queen of Movies” — who never even unpacked her bags.Now, this storied slice of Hollywood history at 1320 Ditmas Ave.is up for grabs at $2.99 million, beckoning buyers with its vintage swagger and a whisper of Tinseltown glamour, The Post has learned.Listed by Corcoran’s Karen Talbott, Kyle Talbott and Scott Sternberg, the 5,000-square-foot home is a love letter to Victorian Flatbush, blending old-school charm with modern pizzazz.The six-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom residence, built in 1910 by Vitagraph Film Studios, was meant to house Pickford, dubbed “America’s Sweetheart” for her ingénue roles and unrivaled fame, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.“The seller believes, based on her research, that this home was originally built for Mary as part of a contract negotiation.

However, she ultimately decided to move to California instead,” Karen Talbott told The Post.Though she never moved in, neighborhood locals and film buffs still call it “Mary Pickford’s house.”A co-founder of United Artists with Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks (who became her second husband) and D.W.Griffith in 1919, Pickford redefined stardom and studio power.“This is actually one case in which it’s very easy to say something that is pretty much inarguable, which is that she was the first female movie star,” Michael Cramer, a film history professor at Sarah Lawrence College, told The Post.

“She’s the most famous woman, the most famous movie star in the world in the 1910s.”Pickford died at the age of 87 in 1979.Despite the grandeur of her earlier years, she became a recluse in her later ones at Pickfair, the California estate she built with Fairbanks — staying there with her third husband.Still, like her career, this Brooklyn home dazzles in its own right.A sweeping foyer flows into a sprawling living room and an octagonal dining room,...