Biography

Pauline Starke was born on January 10, 1901 in Joplin, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Captain Salvation (1927), Salvation Nell (1921) and Love's Blindness (1926). She was married to Jack White and George Sherwood. She died on February 3, 1977 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

WAMPAS Baby Star of 1922.

Emotive, brown-haired and blue-eyed silent screen actress, a former movie extra discovered by D.W. Griffith in a crowd scene in The Birth of a Nation (1915). Later mentored by another director, Frank Borzage, under whose tutelage she shot to stardom from 1917. Her career petered out after the coming of sound.

She reportedly had difficulties with MGM chief Louis B. Mayer during her three years under contract to that studio, which resulted in her being blacklisted by other major studios and relegated to work in the lower-rung studios known as "Poverty Row".

Said to have resembled Gloria Swanson in close-ups.

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

[on her work in The Birth of a Nation (1915)] I was a white girl in the morning and a colored girl in the afternoon.

[Retrospectively on her career] I enjoyed it an awful lot, and it was very easy work, very easy. I just worked because I enjoyed it, and I enjoyed the money. Then I had some difficulties that I would like to forget, and now I'm through with it, and it's out of mind. It's hard for me to recall things.

[After being fired from The Great Gabbo (1929) by director James Cruze and being replaced by his wife, Betty Compson] That's one of the dirty tricks played on you in films.