Pauline Starke

Born: 1901-01-10

Pauline Starke (January 10, 1901 – February 3, 1977) was an American silent-film actress born in Joplin, Missouri. She made her acting debut appearing as a dance extra in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance (1916). She continued to play bit parts until director Frank Borzage started casting her in leading roles, beginning in 1917. Selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922, Starke starred in a number of films from 1916 to 1935. She had been introduced into the film industry by a friend following the completion of her education. She scored several lead roles in films, establishing her as a prominent silent-film actress during the 1920s. She married twice in her lifetime. She first married producer/director Jack White in 1927 and later married actor George Sherwood. She died from the aftermath of a stroke on February 3, 1977 in Santa Monica, California. Pauline Starke has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6125 Hollywood Blvd, for her contributions to Motion Pictures. --From Wikipedia


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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

as Favorite of the Harem (uncredited)
Released: 1916-09-04

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven...

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Camille: The Fate of a Coquette

as Nan
Released: 1926-01-01

A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls...

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Adventure

as Joan Lackland
Released: 1925-04-26

David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of...

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The Untamed

as Kate Cumberland
Released: 1920-08-29

A cowpuncher by the name of Whistling Dan is adopted by a rancher, Joe Cumberland (James O....

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The Mysterious Island

as (uncredited)
Released: 1929-10-05

On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and...

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Lost Angel

as Bobby's Mother (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-23

Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest...

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Dangerous Days

as Delight Haverford
Released: 1920-03-14

Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to...

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Forbidden Paradise

as Anna
Released: 1924-01-02

Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

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The Life Line

as Ruth Heckett
Released: 1919-10-05

Jack Hearne, known as the Romany Rye, prefers living with the gypsies rather than claiming the...

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The Broken Butterfly

as Marcene Elliot
Released: 1919-11-01

A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for...

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Dante's Inferno

as Marjorie Vernon
Released: 1924-09-07

The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to...

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Eyes of Youth

as Rita Ashling
Released: 1919-11-29

A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to...

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The Devil's Cargo

as Far Sampson
Released: 1925-02-02

John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a...

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The Courage of Marge O'Doone

as Marge O'Doone
Released: 1920-05-30

Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One...

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What Men Want

as Lee Joyce
Released: 1930-07-12

A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town....

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

as Sandy
Released: 1921-03-13

In 1921, a young man, having read Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, dreams that he...

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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

as Melissa
Released: 1920-02-01

An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from...

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Bright Lights

as Patsy Delaney
Released: 1925-11-15

Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an...

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Love's Blindness

as Vanessa Levy
Released: 1926-12-04

A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in...

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The Viking

as Helga Nilsson
Released: 1928-11-02

In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first...

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Little Church Around the Corner

as Hetty Burrows
Released: 1923-03-09

A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he...

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A Royal Romance

as Countess von Baden
Released: 1930-03-17

A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his...

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Flower of the North

as Jeanne D'Arcambal
Released: 1921-12-04

Two men, Philip Whittemore (Henry B. Walthall) and Thorpe (Harry Northrup) both go to the...

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Eyes of the Forest

as Ruth Melier
Released: 1923-12-30

The Rangers use airplanes to catch the bad guys in this Tom Mix Western filmed on location in...

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As No Man Has Loved

as Anne Bissell
Released: 1925-02-11

Also known as The Man Without a Country

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Streets of Shanghai

as Mary Sanger
Released: 1927-12-15

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Women Love Diamonds

as Mavis Ray
Released: 1927-02-12

A young woman can't marry a millionaire because she was born illegitimately.

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War Paint

as Polly Hopkins
Released: 1926-10-09

An Indian chief of the Arapahoe escapes the reservation where he has been living and takes along...

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Man, Woman and Wife

as Julia / Rita
Released: 1929-01-13

Helen Brandon, an unhappily married woman, marries former suitor Jack Mason when her husband,...

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My Wild Irish Rose

as Moya
Released: 1922-08-30

Based on the play The Shaughraun, this is the story of Robert Ffolliat, a young Irish lad, who...

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Sun-Up

as Emmy
Released: 1925-09-20

When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a...

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Captain Salvation

as Bess Morgan
Released: 1927-05-14

A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own...

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Soldiers of Fortune

as Hope Langham
Released: 1919-11-22

Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron...

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The Arizona Express

as Katherine Keith
Released: 1924-03-23

A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister...

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Cheerful Givers

as Abigail Deady
Released: 1917-04-21

A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.

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Hearts of Oak

as Chrystal
Released: 1924-10-05

Terry Dunniva, a retired sea-captain living in Marblehead, Massachusetts, adopts two children,...

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The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922

as Self
Released: 1922-03-15

The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western...

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Irish Eyes

as Pegeen O'Barry
Released: 1918-12-15

Pretty Irish lass Pegeen O'Barry lives in a small fishing village on the cost with her kind but...

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Daughter Angele

as Angele
Released: 1918-08-25

Mary Brenton, daughter of wealthy Anthony Brenton, marries a man her father doesn't approve of,...

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Seeds of Vengeance

as Ellen Daw
Released: 1920-08-19

In the mountains of West Virginia, Alderson Cree is mortally wounded in an ambush by Kip...

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Snowblind

as The Girl
Released: 1921-03-22

Hugh Garth hides from the law in the frozen Canadian northwest along with his young brother Pete...

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Until They Get Me

as Margy
Released: 1917-12-02

In an effort to reach his wife's deathbed, Kirby is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He is...

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Whom the Gods Would Destroy

as Julie
Released: 1919-04-15

After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm...

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