Pearl White
Date of birth: 1889-03-04
Place of birth: Green Ridge, Missouri, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Pearl Fay White
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.
Movie Credits
The Romance of Elaine
1915-06-14
The heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X, ali
The Perils of Pauline
1914-03-31
The Perils of Pauline is a motion picture serial shown in weekly installments featuring the actress
The Woman Hater
1910-11-26
A man is captured by Indians after swearing off all women.
Pearl's Dilemma
1913-07-13
Pearl mistakes a janitor for a member of the Black Hand.
The Exploits of Elaine
1914-12-29
Elaine Dodge is the beautiful young daughter of Taylor Dodge, president of the Consolidated Insuranc
The White Moll
1920-07-24
Desperate because a wealthy man has reduced her father to thievery, Rhoda agrees to rob the poor box
Lost in the Night
1913-09-06
Pearl White as a sleepwalking jewel thief.
The Ring
1914-01-11
Though Mr. and Mrs. Gray are supposed to be in comfortable circumstances, the husband has met busine
The Hall-Room Girls
1913-07-19
Pearl White & Chester Barnett want to go on a date and have nothing to wear, so they borrow some clo
The Daughter of Niagara
1910-04-29
Esoomgit tries to stop Red Doe from sacrificing herself for their tribe.
The Iron Claw
1916-02-28
Only Episode 7, "The Hooded Helper," of this 20-Episode Serial is known to survive. All other episod
For Massa's Sake
1911-01-02
Short directed by Joseph A. Golden.
The King's Game
1916-01-07
The story tells of the adventures of an unusual young duke, whose father, the old Grand Duke of Kiev
The Fatal Ring
1917-07-07
A silent movie serial directed by George B. Seitz.
Pearl of the Army
1916-01-02
A 1916 movie serial.
The House of Hate
1918-01-02
A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murder
The Black Secret
1919-01-02
Adventures of an American Secret Service-girl in search of an important German secret during the war
The Lightning Raider
1919-01-02
A beautiful young woman is a daring master thief. She meets the young millionaire Thomas Babbington
A Night at the Cinema in 1914
2014-08-01
Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses
Any Wife
1922-01-22
Without Fear
1922-04-16
Ruth Hamilton, from a wealthy aristocratic family, cares little for society or its conventions and r
A Night in Town
1913-03-02
A maid and butler take advantage of their employers' absence and have a party.
The Thief
1920-12-11
When jealousy and envy lead Mary Vantyne to make a foolish decision and commit an impulsive act she
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961-03-21
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr
Plunder
1923-01-28
Various groups of people, both well-intentioned and otherwise, search for a buried treasure that is
Terreur
1924-05-01
Terreur (Terror) is historically significant as Pearl White's last film.
Will Power
1913-06-22
Pearl's father disapproves of her sweetheart, Chester, and tries to use a mind-over-matter technique
Pearl As A Clairvoyant
1913-04-06
Released as a split reel along with the comedy Almost a Winner (1913)
Cupid’s Monkey Wrench
1911-04-01
A young woman calls in a plumber to fix her radiator, igniting a string of romantic complications.
Mayblossom
1917-04-08
In this tale of the South in the mid-1800s, Annabel Lee and Warner Richmond get married, but they ke
The New Exploits of Elaine
1915-04-05
One of many Pearl White silent action movie serials. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Serpent Sign; 2. The Cry
The Broadway Peacock
1922-02-19
A cabaret hostess falls for a young aristocrat, ignoring her friend's warning that the affair will e
The Lost Necklace
1911-01-01
A young girl is presented, on her birthday, with a beautiful pearl necklace, the oldest heirloom in
The Tiger's Cub
Queen of the serials Pearl White gets herself into plenty of trouble up Klondike way as a young maid
Know Your Men
1921-03-13
Warren Schuyler, a wealthy widower in a small Eastern town, is highly-respected until the citizens a
The Great Chase
1962-12-20
A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences
All in Good Fun
1955-01-01
Bob Monkhouse introduces the golden age of slapstick comedy.
A Virgin Paradise
1921-09-04
Pearl White is a child living alone on a South Seas island after the death of her missionary father.
The Mountain Woman
1921-01-23
In the hills of Kentucky, Alexander McGivens, known as "the girl in pants," is reared by her father
Beyond Price
1921-05-08
Sally Marrio, neglected wife of a prominent shoe designer, has three wishes: to be a millionaire's w