Pauline Starke
Date of birth: 1901-01-10
Place of birth: Joplin, Missouri, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Pauline Stark
Biography
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
Movie Credits
The Courage of Marge O'Doone
1920-05-30
Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One wint
Eyes of the Forest
1923-12-30
The Rangers use airplanes to catch the bad guys in this Tom Mix Western filmed on location in Santa
The Untamed
1920-08-29
A cowpuncher by the name of Whistling Dan is adopted by a rancher, Joe Cumberland (James O. Barrows)
Soldiers of Fortune
1919-11-22
Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits i
The Devil's Cargo
1925-02-02
John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a newspap
Love's Blindness
1926-12-04
A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchang
Seeds of Vengeance
1920-08-19
In the mountains of West Virginia, Alderson Cree is mortally wounded in an ambush by Kip Ryerson, af
Sun-Up
1925-09-20
When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter a
Snowblind
1921-03-22
Hugh Garth hides from the law in the frozen Canadian northwest along with his young brother Pete and
The Little Girl Next Door
1923-04-28
Captain Salvation
1927-05-14
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standi
Until They Get Me
1917-12-02
In an effort to reach his wife's deathbed, Kirby is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He is arre
Eyes of Youth
1919-11-29
A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see
As No Man Has Loved
1925-02-11
Also known as The Man Without a Country
The Viking
1928-11-02
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viki
Lost and Found on a South Sea Island
1923-02-17
Faulke, a swindling white trader who persuaded Madge to leave Captain Blackbird, insists that her da
Dangerous Days
1920-03-14
Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give
Forbidden Paradise
1924-01-02
Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirato
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1921-03-13
In 1921, a young man, having read Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, dreams that he himse
Adventure
1925-04-26
David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fe
War Paint
1926-10-09
An Indian chief of the Arapahoe escapes the reservation where he has been living and takes along som
My Wild Irish Rose
1922-08-30
Based on the play The Shaughraun, this is the story of Robert Ffolliat, a young Irish lad, who is do
The Kingdom Within
1922-12-24
Silent film directed by Victor Schertzinger
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916-09-04
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
1920-02-01
An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morga
The Mysterious Island
1929-10-05
On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientis
Hearts of Oak
1924-10-05
Terry Dunniva, a retired sea-captain living in Marblehead, Massachusetts, adopts two children, Chrys
Cheerful Givers
1917-04-21
A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
Madame Bo-Peep
1917-05-26
A 1917 film directed by Chester Withey.
Lost Angel
1943-12-23
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest sto
Flower of the North
1921-12-04
Two men, Philip Whittemore (Henry B. Walthall) and Thorpe (Harry Northrup) both go to the Northwest
Little Church Around the Corner
1923-03-09
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn
Dante's Inferno
1924-09-07
The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit su
What Men Want
1930-07-12
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complicatio
A Royal Romance
1930-03-17
A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his serv
Bright Lights
1925-11-15
Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invent
Irish Eyes
1918-12-15
Pretty Irish lass Pegeen O'Barry lives in a small fishing village on the cost with her kind but alco
Women Love Diamonds
1927-02-12
A young woman can't marry a millionaire because she was born illegitimately.
The Arizona Express
1924-03-23
A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
1926-01-01
A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. A
The Life Line
1919-10-05
Jack Hearne, known as the Romany Rye, prefers living with the gypsies rather than claiming the right
Daughter Angele
1918-08-25
Mary Brenton, daughter of wealthy Anthony Brenton, marries a man her father doesn't approve of, and
The Broken Butterfly
1919-11-01
A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for inspiration,
His Last Race
1923-08-01
Wife Against Wife
1921-09-12
Man, Woman and Wife
1929-01-13
Helen Brandon, an unhappily married woman, marries former suitor Jack Mason when her husband, Ralph,
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
1922-03-15
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association
Streets of Shanghai
1927-12-15
Whom the Gods Would Destroy
1919-04-15
After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce
The Atom
1918-09-15
Jennie is a slavey in a theatrical boarding house. To her the actors are all wonderful, but Montague
Puppets
1916-09-10
A modern story of Commedia dell'Arte's Pierrot and Columbine.
In the Palace of the King
1923-10-28
King Philip of Spain is jealous of his more popular brother, Don John, and sends him into battle aga
If You Believe It, It's So
1922-07-02
The story of a crook who achieves regeneration through association rather than reformation through f
The Shoes That Danced
1918-03-03
Shopgirl Rhoda Regan is in love with the Harmony Lad, the leader of a New York street gang called th
The Perfect Sap
1927-01-23
Wealthy young Herbert Alden, a would-be detective, is practicing housebreaking with his valet, an ex
Silent Years
1921-11-27
Jo Morey, who lives in the St. Lawrence River Valley, inherits her father's barren farm and devotes
Innocent's Progress
1918-03-24
Tessa Fayne, unhappy in her life as a clerk in a small town candy store, leaves her Aunt Lottie and
The Regenerates
1917-11-25
Mynderse Van Dyun, a wealthy old New York aristocrat, has one goal in life, to see his granddaughter