1889-03-04 Green Ridge, Missouri, USA
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.
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A Night at the Cinema in 1914 | (archive footage) | 2014-08-01 |
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Days of Thrills and Laughter | Self (archive footage) | 1961-03-21 |
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Terreur | Hélène Lorfeuil | 1924-05-01 |
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Plunder | Pearl Travers | 1923-01-28 |
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Without Fear | Ruth Hamilton | 1922-04-16 |
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Any Wife | Myrtle | 1922-01-22 |
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The Broadway Peacock | 1922-02-19 | |
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The Thief | Mary Vantyne | 1920-12-11 |
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The White Moll | Rhoda, The White Moll | 1920-07-24 |
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The Lightning Raider | The Lightning Raider | 1919-01-02 |
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The Black Secret | Evelyn Ereth | 1919-01-02 |
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The House of Hate | Pearl Grant (Waldon) / Jenny Acton | 1918-01-02 |
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The Fatal Ring | Violet Standish | 1917-07-07 |
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Mayblossom | Anabel Lee | 1917-04-08 |
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The Iron Claw | Margery Golden | 1916-02-28 |
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Pearl of the Army | Pearl Date | 1916-01-02 |
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The King's Game | Catherine Dardinilis | 1916-01-07 |
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The New Exploits of Elaine | Elaine Dodge | 1915-04-05 |
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The Romance of Elaine | Elaine Dodge | 1915-06-14 |
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The Perils of Pauline | Pauline Marvin | 1914-03-31 |
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The Exploits of Elaine | Elaine Dodge | 1914-12-29 |
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The Ring | Mrs. Gray | 1914-01-11 |
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Pearl's Dilemma | Pearl Howell | 1913-07-13 |
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Lost in the Night | Pearl Barry | 1913-09-06 |
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A Night in Town | Nellie Thomas - the Housemaid | 1913-03-02 |
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The Hall-Room Girls | Pearl | 1913-07-19 |
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Will Power | Pearl | 1913-06-22 |
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Pearl As A Clairvoyant | Pearl | 1913-04-06 |
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Cupid’s Monkey Wrench | 1911-04-01 | |
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For Massa's Sake | 1911-01-02 | |
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The Woman Hater | 1910-09-26 | |
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The Daughter of Niagara | Red Doe |
