Pauline Frederick
Pauline Frederick (born August 12, 1883 in Boston , Massachusetts , † September 19, 1938 in Beverly Hills , Los Angeles , California ; actually Beatrice Pauline Libbey ) was an American actress .
Life
Pauline Frederick was born in 1883 to a railroad employee in Boston. From 1902 she appeared several times on Broadway , where she was initially used primarily as a soubrette in musicals and comedies, but later also made a name for herself in serious roles. She made her film debut in The Eternal City at the age of 32 . She was then a sought-after actress during the silent film era . She acted in several dozen films of that time, almost all of which are now lost . After the emergence of talkies, Frederick only had a few appearances in films. She was mostly cast in authoritarian mother roles. She played in This Modern Age in 1931 as the mother ofJoan Crawford once again played a bigger role. A year before her death, she was seen as the Chinese matriarch in the crime film Mr. Moto and the China Treasure (1937) alongside Peter Lorre .
Frederick was married five times and had one daughter. She died at the age of 55 of complications from asthma . Her grave is in Grand View Memorial Park in Glendale , California. A star on Broadway is dedicated to her.
Filmography (selection)
- 1915: The Eternal City
- 1917: Sapho
- 1917: Sleeping Fires
- 1919: One Week of Life
- 1920: Madame X
- 1924: Three women (Three Women)
- 1926: The Prisoner on Devil's Island ( Devil's Iceland )
- 1929: The Sacred Flame
- 1931: This Modern Age
- 1932: Self-Defense
- 1936: Ramona
- 1937: Mr. Moto and the China Treasure ( Thank You, Mr. Moto )
literature
- David W. Menefee: The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era . Praeger, Connecticut 2004, ISBN 0-275-98259-9 .
- DeWitt Bodeen: Pauline Frederick . In: Films in Review (February 1965), pp. 69-90.
- Muriel Elwood: Pauline Frederick On and Off the Stage . A. Kroch, Chicago 1940.
- Pauline Frederick: The Story of My Life . In: Motion Picture Magazine (December 1918)
Web links
- Pauline Frederick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pauline Frederick in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Pauline Frederick on All Movie Guide (English)
- Pauline Frederick in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Pauline Frederick on the Stanford University website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frederick, Pauline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Libbey, Beatrice Pauline (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1938 |
| Place of death | Beverly Hills , Los Angeles , California |