Pearl White
Born: 1889-03-04 in Green Ridge, Missouri, USA
Died: 1938-08-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Pearl Fay White (March 4, 1889 – August 4, 1938) was an American stage and film actress. White began her career on the stage at the age of six, and later moved on to silent films appearing in a number of popular serials. Dubbed the "Queen of the serials", White was noted for doing the majority of her own stunts in several film serials, most notably in The Perils of Pauline. In 1910, White was offered a role by Pathé Frères in The Girl From Arizona, the French company's first American film produced at their new studio in Bound Brook, New Jersey. She then worked at Lubin Studios in 1911 and several other of the independents, until the Crystal Film Company in Manhattan gave her top billing in a number of slapstick comedy shorts from 1912 to 1914. White then took a vacation in Europe. Upon her return, she signed with Eclectic Film Company, a subsidiary of Pathé in 1914. Pathé director Louis J. Gasnier offered her the starring role in film serial The Perils of Pauline. By 1919, White had grown tired of film serials and signed with Fox Film Corporation with the ambition to appear in dramatic roles. Over the next two years, White appeared in ten drama films for Fox but her popularity had begun to wane. Pearl White's place in film history is important in both the evolution of cinema genres and the role of women. Like many silent film actors, many of White's films are now considered lost. The Perils of Pauline is only known to exist in a reduced nine-reel version released in Europe in 1916, but The Exploits of Elaine survives and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. All of her films were made at East Coast studios as White reportedly never visited Hollywood. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Pearl White has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6838 Hollywood Blvd. The 1947 Paramount Pictures film The Perils of Pauline, starring Betty Hutton, is a fictionalized biography of Pearl White.
Filmography
2014
- A Night at the Cinema in 1914 as (archive footage)
1962
1961
- Days of Thrills and Laughter as Self (archive footage)
1955
- All in Good Fun as Archive Footage
1924
- Terreur as Hélène Lorfeuil
1923
- Plunder as Pearl Travers
1922
- Without Fear as Ruth Hamilton
- Any Wife as Myrtle
- The Broadway Peacock as Myrtle May
1921
- Know Your Men as Ellen Schuyler
- A Virgin Paradise as Gratia Latham
- The Mountain Woman as Alexander McGiverns
- Beyond Price as Sally Marrio
1920
- The Thief as Mary Vantyne
- The White Moll as Rhoda, The White Moll
1919
- The Lightning Raider as The Lightning Raider
- The Black Secret as Evelyn Ereth
1918
- The House of Hate as Pearl Grant (Waldon) / Jenny Acton
1917
- The Fatal Ring as Violet Standish
- Mayblossom as Anabel Lee
1916
- The Iron Claw as Margery Golden
- Pearl of the Army as Pearl Date
- The King's Game as Catherine Dardinilis
1915
- The New Exploits of Elaine as Elaine Dodge
- The Romance of Elaine as Elaine Dodge
1914
- The Exploits of Elaine as Elaine Dodge
- The Perils of Pauline as Pauline Marvin
- The Ring as Mrs. Gray
1913
- Will Power as Pearl
- Lost in the Night as Pearl Barry
- Pearl As A Clairvoyant as Pearl
- A Night in Town as Nellie Thomas - the Housemaid
- The Hall-Room Girls as Pearl
- Pearl's Dilemma as Pearl Howell
1911
- Cupid’s Monkey Wrench
- The Lost Necklace as The Sleepwalking Heroine
- For Massa's Sake
1910
- The Daughter of Niagara as Red Doe
- The Woman Hater