Pauline Garon

Pauline Garon

Born: September 9, 1901
Died: August 30, 1965
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
From Wikipedia

Pauline Garon (September 9, 1900 – August 30, 1965) was a

Canadian-born American silent film, feature film and stage actress.

She was associated with D.W. Griffith when she first came to

Hollywood in 1920. Garon's first important role came in 1921's The Power

Within. She also played the body double for Sylvia Breamer in Doubling for

Romeo (1921).

In 1923, she was hailed as Cecil B. DeMille's big new

discovery. He cast her in only two films. One was Adam's Rib (1923). She was

selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1923. Even before her

"discovery", Garon had been a steadily rising star. She appeared

opposite Owen Moore in Reported Missing (1922). Garon received much praise for

her role in Henry King's adaptation of Sonny (1922 film) (1922). She had been

chosen for this role by King after he saw her portray the role in the stage

production on Broadway.

In 1922 she played with Richard Barthelmess in the First

National Pictures release, Sonny. Her role as Florence Crosby brought her to

the brink of stardom. However the ingénue professed no real desire to be a

celebrity. Garon admitted that the thought of the responsibilities of being a

star frightened her.

Garon was making at least five films a year after her

popularity soared. She was playing many lead roles in B movies and supporting

roles in more glamorous films. The 1920s was a wonderful decade for the

actress. She co-starred with Gloria Swanson and John Boles in The Love of Sunya

which opened the lavish Roxy Theatre in New York City on March 11, 1927.

By 1928 Garon's career began to decline dramatically. By the

end, She appeared mostly in French renditions of Paramount Pictures movies. She

was cast in less popular English films as well.

By the early 1930s, Garon was given very small uncredited

roles. By 1934 she had vanished from film. Garon played a bit part in How Green

Was My Valley (1941). She was in two westerns, Song Of The Saddle (1936) and

The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941).

Garon married three times. She wed actor Lowell Sherman in

February 1926. Sherman's influence led Garon to refuse a long-term contract

with Paramount. In February 1928 Garon became a citizen of the United States.

She separated from Sherman in August 1927. In February 1940 she eloped with

radio star and actor, Clyde Harland John Alban, to Yuma, Arizona. Garon and

Alban divorced in 1942. She wed comedian Ross Forester and remained with him

until she died.

Garon died at Patton State Hospital, a psychiatric

institution in San Bernardino, California, in 1965. The cause of death was a

brain disorder. She was 63 years old.

Movies for Pauline Garon...

Bunco Squad
Title: Bunco Squad
Character: Mary (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Extra
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Title: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1938
Type: Movie
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
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Shall We Dance
Title: Shall We Dance
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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Her Husband's Secretary
Title: Her Husband's Secretary
Character: Louise, Carol's Maid
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
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King of Hockey
Title: King of Hockey
Character: Marie
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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Colleen
Title: Colleen
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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Song of the Saddle
Title: Song of the Saddle
Character: Settler's Wife (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
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Dangerous
Title: Dangerous
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
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Becky Sharp
Title: Becky Sharp
Character: Fifine
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
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Folies Bergère
Title: Folies Bergère
Character: Lulu
Released: May 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).
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The White Cockatoo
Title: The White Cockatoo
Character: Marianne
Released: January 29, 1935
Type: Movie
In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
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Lost in the Stratosphere
Title: Lost in the Stratosphere
Character: Hilda Garon
Released: November 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But when one of the pilots loses a girl he really cared for, he cannot forgive his friend. Soon afterwards, they must work together on their most dangerous mission yet.
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Wonder Bar
Title: Wonder Bar
Character: Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
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One Year Later
Title: One Year Later
Character: Vera
Released: August 24, 1933
Type: Movie
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned man--and who also has some inside knowledge of the circumstances of the man's case. Also aboard is the prisoner's wife, who doesn't believe her husband is a killer and desperately wants to talk to him about it but he refuses to speak to her.
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By Appointment Only
Title: By Appointment Only
Character: Gwen Reid
Released: July 6, 1933
Type: Movie
When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn't particularly like it. After he returns from a three-year engagement in Europe, the doctor discovers that his ward is now a beautiful, full-grown woman, and finds himself falling for her--even though she's engaged to his fiancé's brother.
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The Phantom Broadcast
Title: The Phantom Broadcast
Character: Nancy
Released: March 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his accompanist, a hunchbacked piano player, is actually the voice behind the arrogant, abusive "singer"'s fame. The two men fall for the same girl, and when the singer turns up dead, suspicion falls upon his assistant and the girl.
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The son of the other
Title: The son of the other
Released: March 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A doomed love story between a top model and a handsome young man. Born on a liner between New York and Europe, the union sinks when the married lady learns that her lover is none other than - the son of her old husband.
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Keep the Bomb
Title: Keep the Bomb
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Garde la bombe is the French speaking version of a Charley Chase comedy short.
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We! We! Marie!
Title: We! We! Marie!
Released: October 28, 1930
Type: Movie
In World War One France, Private Slim and Sergeant Gribbon have a love/hate relationship, but mostly hate.Both have fallen for the same girl, and Slim seemingly can't compete when Gribbon gives her fancy lingerie. Gribbon has no problem belting Slim around, and giving him extended latrine-digging duties.
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The Thoroughbred
Title: The Thoroughbred
Character: Margie
Released: August 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Riley and Donovan, racehorse owners and trainers who have been rivals and enemies for years, seek to befriend Tod Taylor, a jockey, and Ham, a retainer. Tod elects to work for Riley, incurring the enmity of rival jockeys. Riley's daughter, Colleen, sympathizes with Tod and cares for his bruises. Trying to befriend Donovan, Tod wins a match between Riley's colt, Reckless, and Donovan's best horse; and many more victories bolster his confidence. His head is turned by Margie, a come-on girl for Drake, a gambler. She precipitates his dissipation, and Tod is induced to throw the race to avoid a jail sentence.
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The Green Specter
Title: The Green Specter
Character: Lady Violette
Released: May 7, 1930
Type: Movie
A group of people who knew each other years before discover that members of the group are being killed off one by one by someone who calls himself (or herself) The Green Ghost. The survivors gather at an old mansion to find out who is doing the killing and why, and discover that the murderer is a member of that very group.
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The Gamblers
Title: The Gamblers
Character: Isabel Emerson
Released: June 29, 1929
Type: Movie
A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Attorney handling the case is his former sweetheart's husband. This situation gives the DA an opportunity to prosecute his romantic rival.
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Riley of the Rainbow Division
Title: Riley of the Rainbow Division
Character: Gertie Bowers
Released: July 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Two pals enlist in the army during World War I. Just before they complete training camp and are to be sent overseas, they're scheduled to marry their girlfriends. However, they get in trouble and wind up in the guardhouse. Their girlfriends are determined to get married, however, and in order to accomplish this, they disguise themselves as soldiers and sneak onto the base, where they unwittingly get mixed up with enemy spies trying to gather information.
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The Devil's Cage
Title: The Devil's Cage
Character: Eloise
Released: May 26, 1928
Type: Movie
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Dugan of the Dugouts
Title: Dugan of the Dugouts
Character: Betty
Released: April 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A young man joins the army to impress his girlfriend. He soon finds out that his sergeant is actually an enemy spy, but before he can take any action, he and his girlfriend are kidnapped by enemy soldiers, and devise an unusual method of escape from capture.
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The Girl He Didn't Buy
Title: The Girl He Didn't Buy
Character: Ruth Montaigne
Released: April 14, 1928
Type: Movie
Produced by small-scale firm Peerless, this silent melodrama told the ancient story of the girl whose refusal to "put out" loses her a chance for stage prominence.
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The College Hero
Title: The College Hero
Character: Vivian Saunders
Released: November 27, 1927
Type: Movie
A college football player is injured by a jealous teammate during practice, but comes back unexpectedly to play for his team in the season's key game.
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Ladies at Ease
Title: Ladies at Ease
Character: Polly
Released: August 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Polly (Pauline Garon) and Gert (Gertrude Short) are a pair of lingerie models, ever on the prowl for boyfriends. When the girls "steal" the sweethearts of vaudeville's Dotty Sisters (Lillian Hackett, Jean Van Vliet), the Dottys retaliate by getting our heroines fired.
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The Love of Sunya
Title: The Love of Sunya
Character: Anna Hagan
Released: March 11, 1927
Type: Movie
A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.
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Driven from Home
Title: Driven from Home
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by the sinister owner of an opium den.
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Christine of the Big Tops
Title: Christine of the Big Tops
Character: Christine
Released: August 20, 1926
Type: Movie
When her circus-performer parents die in an accident, Christine (Pauline Garon) is raised by other circus-performers, including Hagan, a balloon-vender, and Pete Barman as her guardians. When she grows up, she asks to also become a performer, and Barman agrees. Bob Hastings (Cullen Landis) joins the traveling circus as its doctor, and he and Christine fall in love. This angers Barman, who is also in love with her.
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Flaming Waters
Title: Flaming Waters
Character: Doris Laidlaw
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
After several years' absence, the young sailor Dan O'Neill returns to his hometown. He quickly discovers that his mother has been cheated out of her life savings by slick oil speculator Jasper Thorne and is now working as a charwoman. Dan tries to avenge his mother's loss by swindling the swindler.
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The Splendid Road
Title: The Splendid Road
Character: Angel Allie
Released: December 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had died during the voyage. While in Sacramento she is saved from the attentions of a violent drunk by Stanton Holliday, an agent for eastern banker John Grey. They fall for each other, but Sandra believes that the daughter of Halliday's boss is in love with him, and not wanting to hurt his career she leaves town.
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Rose of the World
Title: Rose of the World
Character: Edith Rogers
Released: November 9, 1925
Type: Movie
In India, Rosamond English learns that her husband Capt. Harry English has been killed in battle. After a time, she marries Sir Arthur Gerardine but is unable to forget her first husband, and gradually her love for him is rekindled, especially when she contrasts him to the pompous and elderly Sir Arthur.
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Compromise
Title: Compromise
Character: Nathalie
Released: October 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Compromise is a silent film drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Alan Crosland. The film is now thought to be a lost film.
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Satan in Sables
Title: Satan in Sables
Character: Colette Breton
Released: October 14, 1925
Type: Movie
A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
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The Great Sensation
Title: The Great Sensation
Character: Peggy Howell
Released: October 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Jack Ruby (William Fairbanks), the son of a wealthy family, pretends to be a chauffeur and goes to work for Peggy Howell (Pauline Garon), a beautiful flapper.
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The Love Gamble
Title: The Love Gamble
Character: Jennie Howard
Released: September 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Peggy Mason joins her boyfriend Douglas Wyman at a secluded cabin. When he confesses his love and the fact he is still a married man Peggy is distraught and flees the cabin. But meanwhile Douglas' wife is murdered and when the police arrest him he finds he can't provide an alibi without tarnishing Peggy's reputation.
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Where Was I?
Title: Where Was I?
Character: Claire
Released: August 24, 1925
Type: Movie
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
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Fighting Youth
Title: Fighting Youth
Character: Jean Manley
Released: July 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Dick Covington is a society athlete who is quick with his fists. His fiancée, Jean Manley, hates his fighting and convinces him to stop. But then his rival tricks him into accepting an offer to fight Murdering Mooney at a charity show. At first Jean is chagrined, but when the rival insults her, she is anxious for Covington to beat his opponent.
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Passionate Youth
Title: Passionate Youth
Released: June 28, 1925
Type: Movie
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Wine of Youth
Title: Wine of Youth
Character: Tish Tatum
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Based on a play be Rachel Crothers, WINE OF YOUTH is a solid drama about "the modern young generation" and how they think they know it all. It's also a play about love and marriage.
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The Turmoil
Title: The Turmoil
Character: Edith Sheridan
Released: September 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Industrialist James Sheridan, Sr., once a laborer, insists on moulding the careers of his three sons; however, he loses James, Jr., in a flood disaster, and Roscoe suffers a mental breakdown. Realizing his mistake, he begins to insure the happiness of the third son, Bibbs, by bringing him together with Mary, the girl he loves.
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Pal o' Mine
Title: Pal o' Mine
Character: Babette Hermann
Released: March 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Opera singer Julia Montfort (Irene Rich) returns to the stage when her husband, Verdugo Montford (Josef Swickard) loses his job...and then gives him work secretly paid for by herself. When a temperamental artist Babette Hermann (Pauline Garon) reveals the secret, Verdugo becomes disillusioned. Later, though, his faith in his wife is restored.
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The Average Woman
Title: The Average Woman
Character: Sally Whipple
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, and eventually falls in love with her. Her father, Judge Whipple, doesn't like it; he has Jimmy arrested and allows him to see Sally only once a week. Meanwhile, disreputable businessman Van Alten is after Sally, and tries to pressure her into marrying him by threatening to release letters he says will embarrass her father.
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The Marriage Market
Title: The Marriage Market
Character: Theodora Bland
Released: October 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.
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Adam's Rib
Title: Adam's Rib
Character: Mathilda Ramsay
Released: September 24, 1923
Type: Movie
Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda assumes her mother's guilt. Ramsay nearly goes broke but gets rich again; his wife returns.
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
Title: You Can't Fool Your Wife
Character: Vera Redell
Released: April 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Edith sets out to prove that a wife can never be fooled by her husband - but will she succeed?
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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Sonny
Title: Sonny
Character: Florence Crosby
Released: May 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Two men who bear a striking resemblance to each befriend each other while stationed in France during WWI. One is fatally fatally wounded and requests makes a dying request to his doppelganger to take on his identity.