Pauline Moore

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Pauline Moore (born June 17, 1914 in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania as Pauline Joless Love , † December 7, 2001 in Sequim , Washington ) was an American actress .

life and career

Pauline Love's biological father died in World War I , whereupon she took Moore 's last name from her stepfather. Since the early 1930s, she tried her hand in Hollywood with little success as an actress, she also took on roles in the theater and worked as a model for magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal , Cosmopolitan and McCall's . In 1937 she was allowed to play major film roles for the first time when she signed a studio contract with 20th Century Fox . In the literary film adaptation Heidi , she was seen alongside Shirley Temple as a teacher. Between 1937 and 1939 Moore appeared in a total of three Charlie Chan crime films. She was also in 1939 in John Ford's film drama Young Mr. Lincoln as Ann Rutledge , the first love of of Henry Fonda embodied Abraham Lincoln to see.

This successful phase of her career was short, however, as Moore was dismissed by Darryl F. Zanuck in 1940 at 20th Century Fox . She then worked at poverty row studios such as Republic Pictures . Among other things, she played in several westerns on the side of Roy Rogers . In 1941 she retired from the film business to devote herself to raising her three children. From 1934 until his death she was married to cartoonist Jefferson Machamer (1900-1960). In the 1950s, Moore returned briefly to acting and took on minor roles in film and television. She later commented on her B-movie career, "The problem was that if you were even a little good at these B-movies, you made more B-movies."

After the death of her first husband, she was married to Pastor Dodd Watkins from 1962 until his death. Pauline Moore was also active as a writer of poems, religious plays and short stories. She died in December 2001 at the age of 87.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Pauline Moore in the New York Times, December 15, 2001
  2. ^ Pauline Moore at Allmovie
  3. ^ Obituary for Pauline Moore in the New York Times, December 15, 2001
  4. ↑ The trouble was, if you were any good at all at doing B movies, then the more B movies you did. , quoted in the biography at the Internet Movie Database
  5. ^ Obituary for Pauline Moore in the New York Times, December 15, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Moore, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Love, Pauline Joless
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Harrisburg , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2001
Place of death Sequim , Washington