From Wikipedia Pearl Fay White (March 4, 1889 – August 4, 1938) was an American stage and film actress. White began her career on the stage at the age of six, and later moved on to silent films appearing in a number of popular serials. Dubbed the "Queen of the serials", White was noted for doing the majority of her own stunts in several film serials, most notably in The Perils of Pauline. In 1910, White was offered a role by Pathé Frères in The Girl From Arizona, the French company's first American film produced at their new studio in Bound Brook, New Jersey. She then worked at Lubin Studios in 1911 and several other of the independents, until the Crystal Film Company in Manhattan gave her top billing in a number of slapstick comedy shorts from 1912 to 1914. White then took a vacation in Europe. Upon her return, she signed with Eclectic Film Company, a subsidiary of Pathé in 1914. Pathé director Louis J. Gasnier offered her the starring role in film serial The Perils of Pauline. By 1919, White had grown tired of film serials and signed with Fox Film Corporation with the ambition to appear in dramatic roles. Over the next two years, White appeared in ten drama films for Fox but her popularity had begun to wane. Pearl White's place in film history is important in both the evolution of cinema genres and the role of women. Like many silent film actors, many of White's films are now considered lost. The Perils of Pauline is only known to exist in a reduced nine-reel version released in Europe in 1916, but The Exploits of Elaine survives and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. All of her films were made at East Coast studios as White reportedly never visited Hollywood. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Pearl White has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6838 Hollywood Blvd. The 1947 Paramount Pictures film The Perils of Pauline, starring Betty Hutton, is a fictionalized biography of Pearl White.

Filmography

• 2014A Night at the Cinema in 1914 — (archive footage)
• 1962The Great Chase
• 1955All in Good Fun — Archive Footage
• 1924Terreur — Hélène Lorfeuil
• 1923Plunder — Pearl Travers
• 1922Any Wife — Myrtle
• 1922The Broadway Peacock — Myrtle May
• 1922Without Fear — Ruth Hamilton
• 1921A Virgin Paradise — Gratia Latham
• 1921Beyond Price — Sally Marrio
• 1921Know Your Men — Ellen Schuyler
• 1921The Mountain Woman — Alexander McGiverns
• 1920The Thief — Mary Vantyne
• 1920The White Moll — Rhoda, The White Moll
• 1919The Black Secret — Evelyn Ereth
• 1919The Lightning Raider — The Lightning Raider
• 1918The House of Hate — Pearl Grant (Waldon) / Jenny Acton
• 1917Mayblossom — Anabel Lee
• 1917The Fatal Ring — Violet Standish
• 1916Pearl of the Army — Pearl Date
• 1916The Iron Claw — Margery Golden
• 1916The King's Game — Catherine Dardinilis
• 1915The New Exploits of Elaine — Elaine Dodge
• 1915The Romance of Elaine — Elaine Dodge
• 1914The Exploits of Elaine — Elaine Dodge
• 1914The Perils of Pauline — Pauline Marvin
• 1914The Ring — Mrs. Gray
• 1913A Night in Town — Nellie Thomas - the Housemaid
• 1913Lost in the Night — Pearl Barry
• 1913Pearl As A Clairvoyant — Pearl
• 1913Pearl's Dilemma — Pearl Howell
• 1913The Hall-Room Girls — Pearl
• 1913Will Power — Pearl
• 1912Her Dressmaker's Bills — Mrs. Owing
• 1911Cupid’s Monkey Wrench
• 1911For Massa's Sake
• 1911The Lost Necklace — The Sleepwalking Heroine
• 1910The Daughter of Niagara — Red Doe
• 1910The Woman Hater
• The Tiger's Cub — Tiger's Cub

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2002Decasia: The State of Decay — Self - Laughing Woman (archive footage)
• 1961Days of Thrills and Laughter — Self (archive footage)