Pauline Starke Actress - Born January 10, 1901 in Joplin, Missouri, USA

Died February 3, 1977 in Santa Monica, California, USA (aftermath of stroke)

Height 5' 3" (1.6 m)

Mini Bio (1) 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 A Royal Romance (1930). She was married to George Sherwood and Jack White. She died on February 3, 1977 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Jack White (1927 - 193?) (divorced)

George Sherwood (? - 3 February 1977) (her death)

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.

Said to have resembled Gloria Swanson in close-ups.

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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".

[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.