Pauline Frederick

Pauline Frederick

Born: August 11, 1883
Died: September 19, 1938
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pauline Frederick (born Pauline Beatrice Libbey) was an American stage and screen actress. Her film career spanned the years 1915-1937.

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Thank You, Mr. Moto
Title: Thank You, Mr. Moto
Character: Madame Chung
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.
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Ramona
Title: Ramona
Character: Señora Moreno
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
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My Marriage
Title: My Marriage
Character: Mrs. DeWitt Tyler II
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
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Social Register
Title: Social Register
Character: Mrs. Breene
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it.
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Self Defense
Title: Self Defense
Character: Katy Devoux
Released: December 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Title: The Phantom of Crestwood
Character: Faith Andes
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
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Wayward
Title: Wayward
Character: Mrs. Eleanor Frost
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.
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This Modern Age
Title: This Modern Age
Character: Diane 'Di' Winters
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
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Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1
Title: Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1
Character: Maid
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Film in the style of a magazine. Various topics, e.g. reading from the book "Ich lasse Dich nicht"; explanation of how a telephone conversation between Berlin and New York works; making a martini; sports teacher Siegfried Dietrich on gymnastic exercises; a sketch; a pop song; revue girls. Maria Ney hosts the program.
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Evidence
Title: Evidence
Character: Myra Stanhope
Released: December 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the profligate Major Pollock. Myra goes into seclusion while Pollock, intending to conceal Myra's innocence, goes to Burma. A few years later Myra sees Kenyon in the park with Mrs. Debenham, a widow with designs on Wimborne. Noting the resemblance between the lady in the park (whom he calls his "princess") and a photograph of his mother, Kenyon invites Myra to dinner at a time when his father, who has curtailed the visits to the park, plans to be away. At the same time Harold Courtenay, an old family friend, sees an opportunity to reunite the estranged couple.
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The Sacred Flame
Title: The Sacred Flame
Character: Mrs. Taylor
Released: November 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Joan Trask
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced.
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Mumsie
Title: Mumsie
Character: Mumsie
Released: September 2, 1927
Type: Movie
A pacifist gambler turns spy and gives his father's gas factory plans to the enemy.
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Josselyn's Wife
Title: Josselyn's Wife
Character: Lillian Josselyn
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Only six months of marital bliss and Lillian Josselyn is filled with dread at the return of Pierre Marchand, her former lover, who left her to marry Ellen Latimer.
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: Jeannette Picto
Released: July 20, 1926
Type: Movie
A wealthy Parisian surgeon finds himself serving time in a brutal penal colony.
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Her Honor, the Governor
Title: Her Honor, the Governor
Character: Adele Fenway
Released: July 19, 1926
Type: Movie
The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house. Having refused to support a water power bill endorsed by Jim Dornton, the political boss of the state, the governor is threatened.
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Smouldering Fires
Title: Smouldering Fires
Character: Jane Vale
Released: January 18, 1925
Type: Movie
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
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Married Flirts
Title: Married Flirts
Character: Nellie Wayne
Released: October 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. Jill Wetherell, who is looking for a rich husband, finds Wayne to be easy prey and Nelly catches them together. She divorces Wayne and travels to Europe. Jill, however, throws Wayne over for Perley Rex.
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Three Women
Title: Three Women
Character: Mrs. Mable Wilton
Released: August 18, 1924
Type: Movie
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.
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Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Title: Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Character: Self
Released: November 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Another entry in the popular one-reel series.
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The Mistress of Shenstone
Title: The Mistress of Shenstone
Character: Lady Myra Ingleby
Released: February 27, 1921
Type: Movie
The husband of Lady Myra Ingleby is off fighting in the World War. She is devastated when Sir Derysk Brand tells her that her husband has been killed. The War Office gives her the details - Lord Ingleby was killed, not by enemy fire, but because of an error committed by one of his fellowmen, whose name is never to be disclosed. The grieving widow retreats to her Cornwall estate for a rest. Staying at the inn is a man known as Jim Airth, who carries a grief of his own.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Jacqueline Floriot
Released: September 28, 1920
Type: Movie
Jacqueline Floriot is driven from her home by her husband Louis, a deputy attorney of Paris, because of his unjust suspicions regarding her relations with another man. Floriot forbids Jacqueline to see her baby boy, who is dangerously ill, and when informed that the boy believes her dead, she attempts suicide.
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The Woman in Room 13
Title: The Woman in Room 13
Character: Laura Bruce
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Laura Bruce is married to John Bruce, police commissioner. She discovers her husband is enjoying a drunken revel with another woman, and vows she will obtain a divorce. After doing so she weds Paul Ramsey. His employer, Dick Turner, a libertine, offers his a responsible position in the west, and she faces a long separation. Ramsey later learns that Turner is interested in his wife and engages a man to protect her, who happens to be her former husband.
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The Paliser Case
Title: The Paliser Case
Character: Cassy Cara
Released: February 15, 1920
Type: Movie
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
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Bonds of Love
Title: Bonds of Love
Character: Una Sayre
Released: November 2, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman is hired as a governess for the son of a man grieving the loss of his wife. The governess's presence is unwelcome to the rest of the family, especially after the governess develops a romantic attachment to her employer.
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Paid in Full
Title: Paid in Full
Character: Emma Brooks
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
A bookkeeper's embezzling scheme is discovered by his wife, while his boss's romantic feelings for her complicate matters further.
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The Woman on the Index
Title: The Woman on the Index
Character: Sylvia Martin
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Sylvia Martin is a destitute young woman who is taken home by Louis Gordon. She doesn't realize he's the leader of a gang of crooks until after she marries him.
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Out of the Shadow
Title: Out of the Shadow
Character: Ruth Minchin
Released: January 5, 1919
Type: Movie
Ruth Minchin is unhappily married to her father's former business partner, a drunken brute. She contracts a friendship for Severino, a pianist, who lives in the same apartment house, and Minchin, discovering them together, orders the pianist from the room and knocks his wife down. Severino kills Minchin in a delirium following pneumonia, and Ruth is suspected of the crime.
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Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Title: Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Character: Miss Liberty Loan
Released: October 1, 1918
Type: Movie
The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan.
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Mrs. Dane's Defense
Title: Mrs. Dane's Defense
Character: Felicia Hindemarsh
Released: January 7, 1918
Type: Movie
An Englishwoman misbehaves in Canada, driving a traveling companion to suicide and bearing a secret child whom she whisks away. When she returns to England to receive an inheritance, her bad deeds catch up to her. The film is presumed lost.
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The Love That Lives
Title: The Love That Lives
Character: Molly McGill
Released: July 9, 1917
Type: Movie
When her husband Pete is shot over a craps game, Molly McGill goes to work as a scrubwoman to support her two children.
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Her Better Self
Title: Her Better Self
Character: Vivian Tyler
Released: May 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Even though society debutante Vivian Tyler (Pauline Frederick) is engaged to Count Belloto (Frank deRheim), she finds herself attracted to Dr. Robert Keith (Thomas Meighan). Keith works amongst the poor, and his wealthy benefactors include Vivian's father (Charles Wellesley). But when Vivian meets streetwalker Aggie May (Alice Hollister), she mistakenly believes that Keith is responsible for the woman's downfall.
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Sapho
Title: Sapho
Character: Sapho, aka Fanny Lagrand
Released: March 11, 1917
Type: Movie
The classic story of a flower girl from the slums who becomes Sapho.
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The Moment Before
Title: The Moment Before
Character: Madge, the Duchess of Maldon
Released: April 27, 1916
Type: Movie
The film begins by presenting the elderly and elegant Duke and Duchess of Maldon, engaged in charitable acts in a Dickensian village. The following day, the duke falls off his horse and is mortally injured. Mourning the loss of her great love, the duchess collapses in church, and in the “moment before death” she reviews her own life. “It was in her youth that she had fractured practically all the Biblical commandments,” says the intertitle. In fact, when she was young, Madge the duchess was a seductive gypsy, engaged to the fiery gypsy John, but fascinated by Harold, the idle aristocratic son of the Maldons, who was prone to the family vice of excessive drinking. In love with the gypsy, Harold brings her home as a servant, scandalizing his older brother. A fight between the brothers and John’s jealousy lead to a fatal accident that forces both Harold and the gypsy couple to flee to Australia.
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Bella Donna
Title: Bella Donna
Character: Bella Donna
Released: November 15, 1915
Type: Movie
Bella Donna falls for the exotic Baroudi and plots to poison her husband.
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Zaza
Title: Zaza
Character: Zaza
Released: November 11, 1915
Type: Movie
Zaza is a music hall star in Paris. She meets Bernard Dufrene and a flirtation develops into an intense love on her part. She is in despair when she discovers that he already has a wife and child. To visit them and announce herself as the mistress of the husband and father is her first idea, but the charm of the child restrains her. She cannot strike the blow and passes off her visit with an improvised excuse. She dismisses Bernard and returns to the stage, where she gains real fame as a dramatic artist. Once more he seeks her, but again the memory of the child saves her to her better self.
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Sold
Title: Sold
Character: Helen
Released: August 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Lost 1915 film
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The Eternal City
Title: The Eternal City
Character: Donna Roma
Released: April 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Leone, a Papal guard, is devastated when his wife drowns herself after mistakenly thinking that he had abandoned her. He turns over his son David to be brought up by nuns, then enters a monastery. David is brought to London and is raised to be a beggar and thief until he is rescued by Dr. Roselli, an Italian political refugee, who raises David with his daughter Donna Roma. Years later David gets heavily involved in Italian politics and incurs the enmity of the corrupt Italian Prime Minister, which leads him to discover the hidden secrets of his family's past--and present.