Pauline Starke

Pauline Starke

Born: January 10, 1901
Died: February 3, 1977
in Joplin, Missouri, USA
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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Lost Angel
Title: Lost Angel
Character: Bobby's Mother (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
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What Men Want
Title: What Men Want
Character: Lee Joyce
Released: July 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
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A Royal Romance
Title: A Royal Romance
Character: Countess von Baden
Released: March 17, 1930
Type: Movie
A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be Countess von Baden, hiding in a secret chamber with her son, whom the court has awarded to her divorced husband.
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The Mysterious Island
Title: The Mysterious Island
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1929
Type: Movie
On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his sister Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.
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Man, Woman and Wife
Title: Man, Woman and Wife
Character: Julia / Rita
Released: January 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Helen Brandon, an unhappily married woman, marries former suitor Jack Mason when her husband, Ralph, is killed in action. The report of Ralph's death is false; he returns to the States, a deserter, under an assumed name and becomes a derelict.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1930)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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The Viking
Title: The Viking
Character: Helga Nilsson
Released: November 2, 1928
Type: Movie
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same woman.
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Streets of Shanghai
Title: Streets of Shanghai
Character: Mary Sanger
Released: December 15, 1927
Type: Movie
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Captain Salvation
Title: Captain Salvation
Character: Bess Morgan
Released: May 14, 1927
Type: Movie
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.
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Women Love Diamonds
Title: Women Love Diamonds
Character: Mavis Ray
Released: February 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A young woman can't marry a millionaire because she was born illegitimately.
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Love's Blindness
Title: Love's Blindness
Character: Vanessa Levy
Released: December 4, 1926
Type: Movie
A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the girl is Jewish, her new "husband" lets her know that the marriage is strictly a business matter and that he could never have romantic feelings for one of "her kind".
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War Paint
Title: War Paint
Character: Polly Hopkins
Released: October 9, 1926
Type: Movie
An Indian chief of the Arapahoe escapes the reservation where he has been living and takes along some of his warriors. The cavalry is sent out for them.
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Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Title: Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Character: Nan
Released: January 1, 1926
Type: Movie
A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Paris and New York.
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Character: Patsy Delaney
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and go to the city. There he will show Patsy that he can be just what he thinks she wants: a city slicker. But Patsy yearns for the simple pleasure of her country boy, Tom, and is shocked at what shows up at her door.
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Sun-Up
Title: Sun-Up
Character: Emmy
Released: September 20, 1925
Type: Movie
When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to kill the deserter who she learns is the son of a murderous revenue agent.
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Adventure
Title: Adventure
Character: Joan Lackland
Released: April 26, 1925
Type: Movie
David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackland, a female soldier of fortune, arrives by schooner in the islands. With the help of her Kanaka crew, she protects David from an attack by the natives who are led by Googomy. Joan nurses David back to health and becomes his business partner, protecting his mortgaged property from two avaricious moneylenders. Seeking vengeance, the moneylenders incite the natives to revolt.
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As No Man Has Loved
Title: As No Man Has Loved
Character: Anne Bissell
Released: February 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Also known as The Man Without a Country
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The Devil's Cargo
Title: The Devil's Cargo
Character: Far Sampson
Released: February 2, 1925
Type: Movie
John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a newspaper. He is determined to clear the town of the low-down mining camp types who are flaunting their freewheeling ways. When Joyce meets Faro Sampson, he falls in love, believing that she is the daughter of a minister. Actually she's the daughter of the man who runs a gambling den, "Square Deal" Sampson.
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Hearts of Oak
Title: Hearts of Oak
Character: Chrystal
Released: October 5, 1924
Type: Movie
Terry Dunniva, a retired sea-captain living in Marblehead, Massachusetts, adopts two children, Chrystal and Ned. As the girl grows to womanhood, Terry realizes his fatherly-love had grown to something stronger. He asks her to become his wife. Chrystal, who is in love with her foster-brother, consents rather than destroy Terry's happiness. On the day of their marriage, Ned returns from a long voyage with the intent of making Chrysal his wife. And, he, too, rather than destroy the happiness of his adopted-father, leaves to embark on an Artic voyage that might mean his death. When Terry learns of the sacrifice both Chrystal and Ned are making on behalf of his happiness, he takes Ned's place on the voyage and gets both to pledge that if he does not return, they will marry each other.
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Dante's Inferno
Title: Dante's Inferno
Character: Marjorie Vernon
Released: September 7, 1924
Type: Movie
The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder and executed, and is afterward taken by demons to the Hell where he will spend the rest of eternity. .
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The Arizona Express
Title: The Arizona Express
Character: Katherine Keith
Released: March 23, 1924
Type: Movie
A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and a mail clerk who's helping her discover information that may clear him, but they have to get to the governor in time to present their new evidence and get a stay of execution.
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Forbidden Paradise
Title: Forbidden Paradise
Character: Anna
Released: January 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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Eyes of the Forest
Title: Eyes of the Forest
Character: Ruth Melier
Released: December 30, 1923
Type: Movie
The Rangers use airplanes to catch the bad guys in this Tom Mix Western filmed on location in Santa Cruz, California.
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His Last Race
Title: His Last Race
Released: August 1, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Little Girl Next Door
Title: The Little Girl Next Door
Character: Mary Slocum
Released: April 28, 1923
Type: Movie
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Little Church Around the Corner
Title: Little Church Around the Corner
Character: Hetty Burrows
Released: March 9, 1923
Type: Movie
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, along with the mine's owner.
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Lost and Found on a South Sea Island
Title: Lost and Found on a South Sea Island
Character: Lorna
Released: February 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Faulke, a swindling white trader who persuaded Madge to leave Captain Blackbird, insists that her daughter, Lorna, marry Waki, a native leader, although Lorna loves Lloyd Warren. While in search of a doll for his other daughter, Baby Madge, Captain Blackbird comes to Pago Pago and gruffly refuses to aid Lloyd and Lorna, whom he does not recognize. A chance encounter with Faulke, however, reveals the trader's evil doings and Lorna's identity. The captain and his men rush to the island and rescue Lorna from the warring natives.
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The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Title: The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Character: Self
Released: March 15, 1922
Type: Movie
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, which honored 13 (15 in 1932) young actresses each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. 1922 was the first.
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Flower of the North
Title: Flower of the North
Character: Jeanne D'Arcambal
Released: December 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Two men, Philip Whittemore (Henry B. Walthall) and Thorpe (Harry Northrup) both go to the Northwest to gain the right-of-way for their railroad company from D'Arcambal (Emmett King). Whittemore arrives first and D'Arcambal refuses to meet with him until he saves his daughter, Jeanne (Pauline Starke) from going over the rapids. Then Thorpe arrives and tries to use force by kidnapping Jeanne and insisting that he is her father.
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Wife Against Wife
Title: Wife Against Wife
Released: September 12, 1921
Type: Movie
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Snowblind
Title: Snowblind
Character: The Girl
Released: March 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Hugh Garth hides from the law in the frozen Canadian northwest along with his young brother Pete and Pete's former nurse, Bella, who loves Hugh unrequitedly. When a lost and snowblind girl stumbles into their camp, Hugh falls in love with her and misleads her as to the age and relationship of Pete and Bella, in hopes of keeping the girl's attentions directed at himself. But when the girl's sight returns, she realizes the truth and discovers that Pete has fallen in love with her. But Hugh's cruel nature now threatens them both.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Character: Sandy
Released: March 13, 1921
Type: Movie
In 1921, a young man, having read Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, dreams that he himself travels to King Arthur's court, where he has similar adventures and outwits his foes by means of very modern inventions including motorcycles and nitroglycerine.
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The Untamed
Title: The Untamed
Character: Kate Cumberland
Released: August 29, 1920
Type: Movie
A cowpuncher by the name of Whistling Dan is adopted by a rancher, Joe Cumberland (James O. Barrows). His daughter, Kate is immediately attracted to Dan, but Cumberland discourages the union since he thinks the young man is too wild for her.
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Seeds of Vengeance
Title: Seeds of Vengeance
Character: Ellen Daw
Released: August 19, 1920
Type: Movie
In the mountains of West Virginia, Alderson Cree is mortally wounded in an ambush by Kip Ryerson, after Kip's wife, Martha, seeks refuge at the Crees's home for herself and her stepdaughter, Eileen. Cree makes his young son, David, promise to avenge his death once he has grown into manhood. As David Cree runs for help, Alderson recants and instructs Martha Ryerson to release his son from his promise. However, to eliminate her brutal spouse, Martha Ryerson remains silent, and George Hedrick, the local storekeeper, leads a crowd to drive Kip out of town. Hedrick later announces Kip's death, relieving David of his obligation to his father. Years pass, and David, now an adult, is engaged to Mary Reddin. When Kip Ryerson returns to town, David's mother demands that he keep his promise to avenge his father.
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The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Title: The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Character: Marge O'Doone
Released: May 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One winter day, while on a journey, Michael meets with an accident and fails to return home. Believing that he is dead, Margaret goes into a state of delirium which enables Buck Tavish, a long-time admirer, to carry her away to his cabin. When she finally comes to her senses she flees in search of Michael, leaving Marge behind.
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Dangerous Days
Title: Dangerous Days
Character: Delight Haverford
Released: March 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semi-documentary to cruel melodrama.
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Title: The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Character: Melissa
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morgan's raiders. He learns his real identity when he returns after the war.
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Eyes of Youth
Title: Eyes of Youth
Character: Rita Ashling
Released: November 29, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see what results would come from her choice of of the options. After she sees her future along three of the roads, she makes her choice.
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Soldiers of Fortune
Title: Soldiers of Fortune
Character: Hope Langham
Released: November 22, 1919
Type: Movie
Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza, the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract.
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The Broken Butterfly
Title: The Broken Butterfly
Character: Marcene Elliot
Released: November 1, 1919
Type: Movie
A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for inspiration, who comes to find it in her and the star-crossed romance that develops between them.
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The Life Line
Title: The Life Line
Character: Ruth Heckett
Released: October 5, 1919
Type: Movie
Jack Hearne, known as the Romany Rye, prefers living with the gypsies rather than claiming the right to his part of his half brother Phillip Royston's country estate, Cragsnest. When he saves Ruth Heckett, the daughter of his friend Joe, a London bird shop owner and burglar, from a theater fire, however, he changes his mind and marries her. As Ruth and Jack board a steamer for America to find witnesses to his parents' wedding for proof of his inheritance, Joe's partner Bos gives Ruth a Bible that he stole from Cragsnest, as a present.
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Irish Eyes
Title: Irish Eyes
Character: Pegeen O'Barry
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Pretty Irish lass Pegeen O'Barry lives in a small fishing village on the cost with her kind but alcoholic father and her vicious stepmother Moll. When her father is killed during a drunken brawl, a stunned Pegeen wanders down to the shore in her grief. She is noticed by Sir Arthur Ormsby, an Englishman who just happens to be sailing his yacht up the coast. He takes a liking to her and before long she's moved into his estate. Things are going along swimmingly until Arthur's wastrel brother Guy shows up.
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Daughter Angele
Title: Daughter Angele
Character: Angele
Released: August 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Mary Brenton, daughter of wealthy Anthony Brenton, marries a man her father doesn't approve of, and they become estranged. When she tries to return home, her father refuses to let her in. Her daughter, Angele, disguises herself as a Belgian war refugee and her grandfather--not knowing who she really is--takes her into his house and, eventually, into his heart.
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Until They Get Me
Title: Until They Get Me
Character: Margy
Released: December 2, 1917
Type: Movie
In an effort to reach his wife's deathbed, Kirby is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He is arrested by Selwyn, a member of the North West Mounted Police, who allows him to say a last farewell to his wife. After visiting his wife's deathbed, Kirby eludes Selwyn and becomes a fugitive from the police. Each year he returns to visit his son and, during one of his sojourns, meets Margy, a little farmhouse servant who has run away from her life of drudgery.
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Madame Bo-Peep
Title: Madame Bo-Peep
Character: Juanita
Released: May 26, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 filmd riected by Chester Withey.
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Cheerful Givers
Title: Cheerful Givers
Character: Abigail Deady
Released: April 21, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Favorite of the Harem (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.