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Pauline Starke
Pauline Starke (January 10, 1901Some sources say she was born in 1900. – February 3, 1977) was an American silent-film actress. Early years Pauline Starke was born on January 10, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri, the daughter of George W. Starke and Edythe Edna Starke (née Bruce). Starke left school after completing the 5th grade. She accompanied her mother to Los Angeles and caught the attention of D. W. Griffith while her mother was working as an extra. Career Selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922, Starke starred in a number of films from 1916 to 1935. She made her acting debut as an extra in ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915) and appeared as a dance extra in ''Intolerance'' (1916). She continued to play bit parts until director Frank Borzage started casting her in leading roles, beginning in 1917. She scored several lead roles in films, establishing her as a prominent silent-film actress during the 1920s. On Broadway, Starke portrayed Sylvia Clayton in ''Zombie'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joplin, Missouri
Joplin is a city in Jasper County, Missouri, Jasper and Newton County, Missouri, Newton counties in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Missouri. The bulk of the city is in Jasper County, while the southern portion is in Newton County. Joplin is the largest city located within both Jasper and Newton Counties - even though it is not the county seat of either county (Carthage, Missouri, Carthage is the seat of Jasper County while Neosho, Missouri, Neosho is the seat of Newton County). With a population of 51,762 as of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, Joplin is the List of cities in Missouri, 13th most-populous city in the state. The city covers an area of 35.69 square miles (92.41 km2) on the outer edge of the Ozarks, Ozark Mountains. Joplin is the main hub of the three-county Joplin-Miami, MO-OK MSA, Joplin-Miami, Missouri-Oklahoma Metro area, which is home to 210,077 people making it the 5th largest metropolitan area in Missouri. In May 2011, the city was 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Atom (1918 Film)
''The Atom'' is a lost 1918 silent film drama directed by Frank Borzage. It stars Pauline Starke and Belle Bennett. It was produced by Triangle Film Corportion and released by Triangle Studios. Cast *Pauline Starke - Jenny *Belle Bennett - Belle Hathaway *Harry Mestayer - Montague Booth *Ruth Handforth - Miss Miggs *Walter E. Perkins - Oldson (*as Walter Perkins) *Lincoln Stedman - Ethelbert *Eugene Burr - Benson *Tom Buckingham - Jerry *Frank Borzage Frank Borzage (; April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor, known for directing '' 7th Heaven'' (1927), '' Street Angel'' (1928), '' Bad Girl'' (1931), '' A Farewell to Arms'' (1932), ''Man's ... References External links The Atom at IMDb.com* 1918 films American silent feature films Lost American films American black-and-white films 1918 lost films Silent American drama films 1918 drama films Lost drama films Films directed by William C. Dowlan 1910s American f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wife Against Wife
''Wife Against Wife'' is a 1921 American Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Whitman Bennett and written by Dorothy Farnum. It is based on the 1911 play ''The Price'' by George Broadhurst. The film stars Pauline Starke, Percy Marmont, Edward Langford, Emily Fitzroy and Ottola Nesmith. The film was released on September 12, 1921, by First National Pictures, Associated First National Pictures. Cast *Pauline Starke as Gabrielle Gautier *Percy Marmont as Stannard Dole *Edward Langford as Dr. Ethan Bristol *Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Dole *Ottola Nesmith as Florence Bromley References External links * {{IMDb title, 0179529, Wife Against Wife 1921 films 1920s English-language films Silent American drama films 1921 drama films First National Pictures films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by Whitman Bennett 1920s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Forgotten Woman (1921 Film)
''The Forgotten Woman'' is a 1921 silent American melodrama film directed by Park Frame and starring Pauline Stark. Plot A "water waif" named Dixie is adopted by a hateful woman and tricked into marrying the woman's son. After her new husband is arrested on their wedding night, she ends up falling for another man. Cast * Pauline Starke as Dixie LaRose * J. Frank Glendon J. Frank Glendon (October 25, 1886 – March 17, 1937) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1915 and 1936. He was born in Choteau, Montana, and died in Hollywood, California. Selected filmography * '' Canni ... as Julian LaRose * Allan Forrest as Keith Demming * Laura Winston as 'Sis' Maloney * Roy Coulson as Joe Maloney Production Reportedly, Catherine Carr was visiting the Carolinas when she happened upon a group of Southerners who lived a colorful, bohemian lifestyle along a river. Her trip inspired her to write the script for ''The Forgotten Woman''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvation Nell (1921 Film)
''Salvation Nell'' is a 1921 American silent drama film produced by Whitman Bennett and distributed by Associated First National Pictures, later First National Pictures. It was directed by Kenneth Webb and stars Pauline Starke. The film is based on a successful 1908 Broadway play by Edward Sheldon that starred Minnie Maddern Fiske. This film survives in the George Eastman House and the Library of Congress collections. An earlier 1915 version with Beatriz Michelena is now lost. A 1931 talkie version made by Tiffany Pictures survives. Cast *Pauline Starke as Nell Saunders * Joe King as Jim Platt (credited as Joseph King) *Gypsy O'Brien as Myrtle Hawes *Edward Langford as Major Williams *Evelyn Carter Carrington as Hallelujah (credited as Evelyn C. Carrington) *Maggie *Charles McDonald as Sid McGovern *Matthew Betz Matthew Betz (September 13, 1881 – January 26, 1938) was an American film actor. Betz was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1881. Following an extended care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (1921 Film)
''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' is a 1921 American silent film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1889 novel ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court''. The film was produced by the Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century Fox) and directed by Emmett J. Flynn based on a screenplay by Bernard McConville. It is notable as the first film adaptation of Twain's novelGrellner, Alice; and Harty, Kevin J. (1991). "Films". In Norris J. Lacy, ''The New Arthurian Encyclopedia'', p. 152. (New York: Garland, 1991). . and as the second film about time travel to the past (after The Ghost of Slumber Mountain). The film stars Harry Myers as the titular Yankee Martin Cavendish. After reading Twain's novel, Cavendish dreams that he, like Twain's protagonist Henry Morgan, is transported back to the time of King Arthur (Charles Clary), where he must use modern know-how to outwit the king's foes Morgan le Fay (Rosemary Theby) and Merlin (William V. Mong). The screenplay modernizes the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Untamed (1920 Film)
''The Untamed'' is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and starring Tom Mix, Pauline Starke, and George Siegmann. It was based on a novel of the same name by Max Brand and was remade as a sound film '' Fair Warning'' in 1931. Plot As described in a film magazine, Whistling Dan (Mix), the adopted son of rancher Joe Cumberland (Barrows), has been raised since childhood with the latter aware of his instinct to fight like an animal and kill that which harms him. Joe has forbidden Dan from frequenting Morgan's Place, a gathering ground of local renegades and desperadoes. Joe then purchases the place with the intent to close it, and on the last day of its activity Dan encounters Jim Silent (Siegmann), an insulting cowboy. When he is left behind following an unfair fight to perish in the building after his enemy has set fire to it, Dan is rescued by his dog and horse. Starting off in pursuit of Jim, Dan is followed by Kate (Starke), his foster sister and sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seeds Of Vengeance
''Seeds of Vengeance'' is an American film released in 1920. It was directed by Ollie Sellers. It was an adaptation of Margaret Prescott's ''The Sowing of Alderson Cree''. The film starred Bernard Durning. It was a C. R. Macauley Photoplay. It was a 5-reel film was produced by Select Pictures. Sada Cowan wrote the scenario. The film is one of at least three Sellers directed with Durning as an actor. Cast *Bernard Durning *Pauline Starke as Ellen Dawe *Gloria Hope *Eugenie Besserer *Charles Elder (actor) * Jack Curtis *Evelyn Selbie *George Hernandez *Jack Levering *Burwell Hamrick *George Stone Reception Marion Russell in ''The Billboard The Billboard () is a massive granite monolith in the Sarnoff Mountains of the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, standing just west of Mount Rea between Arthur Glacier and Boyd Glacier. It was discovered in November 1934 by a Secon ...'' wrote, "Amazingly beautiful photography marks the high lights of this picture, second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courage Of Marge O'Doone
''The Courage of Marge O'Doone'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by David Smith and featuring Pauline Starke, Billie Bennett, Niles Welch and Boris Karloff (as Buck Tavish, a mountain man). It was written by Robert N. Bradbury, based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood. The film is considered to be lost. The film had the following tagline: "SEE THE FEROCIOUS FIGHT BETWEEN TWO BIG GRIZZLY BEARS! A REAL THRILL - SEE THIS!" (Print ad in the Syracuse Journal, 21 May 1921) Plot Michael O'Doone (George Stanley), his wife Margaret (Billie Bennett) and daughter Marge (Pauline Starke) are settlers living in the Northwest. While traveling on a winter day, Michael meets with an accident and never returns home. Thinking that her husband is dead, Margaret begins to lose her grip on sanity which enables Buck Tavish (Boris Karloff), a mountain man who always admired her, to abduct her and take her to his cabin. When she finally regains her senses, she departs on a search for Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come (1920 Film)
''The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' is a lost 1920 silent film drama directed by Wallace Worsley and starring Jack Pickford. It was produced and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures. Cast *Jack Pickford - Chad * Clara Horton - Margaret *Pauline Starke - Melissa *J. Parks Jones - Dan Dean *Clark Marshall - Harry Dean *Edythe Chapman - Mrs. Dean * James Neill - Major Buford *R. D. MacLean - General (*as R.D. McLean) * T. D. Crittenden - Schoolmaster (as Dwight Crittenden) *Aileen Manning - Cousin Lucy *Dudley Hendricks - Joel Turner * Aggie Herring - Mrs. Turner *Tod Burns - Turner Boy *Lee Phelps Lee Phelps (born Napoleon Bonaparte Kukuck; May 15, 1893 – March 19, 1953) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 600 films between 1917 and 1953, mainly in uncredited roles. He also appeared in three films that won the Acade ... - Turner Boy *Milton Brown - Pop Dillon References External links ''The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' at IMDb.com*Media(archived) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soldiers Of Fortune (1919 Film)
''Soldiers of Fortune'' is a lost 1919 American silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Wallace Beery. The film is based on the 1897 novel of the same name by Richard Harding Davis. The film was produced by the Mayflower Photoplay Company Richard Harding Davis's novel that inspired the film had already been brought to the screen in 1914 by William F. Haddock; Soldiers of Fortune had her starring Dustin Farnum. The subject of both the 1914 and 1919 films are based on the Spanish–American War. The 1919 film was shot in San Diego Fairgrounds at Balboa Park in San Diego, California. Distributed by Realart Pictures, the film was released in American theaters on November 22, 1919. Plot Robert Clay, a noble America hero of humble means trying to do his best to help the war effort in the fictional capital Olancho in a small South American republic, but he meets a rich lady and they fall in love during the revolution. Robert Clay is the engineer and general manager of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Broken Butterfly
''The Broken Butterfly'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Lew Cody, Mary Alden, and Pauline Starke. Plot While strolling through the forests of Canada, Marcène Elliot (Starke), a naive young woman meets Daniel Thorn (Cody), a composer looking for inspiration for a symphony. They are fascinated by each other and she abandons herself into her lover's arms. Daniel then writes a symphony and calls it “Marcène” after her. He then asks her to accompany him to "the old continent" for the first time, but she refuses, fearing the anger of her Aunt Julie Elliot (Alden). Marcène gives birth to a little girl and then her aunt rejects her. Her own fears push her to attempt suicide. Upon returning, Daniel learns from Aunt Julie that Marcène gave birth to his child and that she drowned herself and her daughter. He then travels to forget his pain and meets Marcène's sister in England where she is playing his symphony. They get to know each o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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