Pauline Starke

Pauline Starke (January 10, 1901 – February 3, 1977) was an American silent-film actress.

Early years Pauline Starke was born on January 10, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri, the daughter of George W. Starke and Edythe Edna Starke (née Bruce). Starke left school after completing the 5th grade. She accompanied her mother to Los Angeles and caught the attention of D. W. Griffith while her mother was working as an extra.

Career Selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922, Starke starred in a number of films from 1916 to 1935.

She made her acting debut as an extra in The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Personal life and death Starke married producer/director Jack White on September 4, 1927, and they divorced in 1931. In 1932, she married actor George Sherwood.

Selected filmography

Intolerance (1916) - Favorite of the Harem (uncredited) Puppets (1916, Short) - Columbine The Rummy (1916) - The Girl The Wharf Rat (1916) - Flo Cheerful Givers (1917) - Abigail Deady Madame Bo-Peep (1917) - Juanita The Regenerates (1917) - Nora Duffy Until They Get Me (1917) - Margy The Argument (1918) - Wyllis Hyde The Shoes That Danced (1918) - Rhoda Regan Innocent's Progress (1918) - Tessa Fayne The Man Who Woke Up (1918) - Edith Oglesby Alias Mary Brown (1918) - Betty Daughter Angele (1918) - Angele The Atom (1918) - Jenny Irish Eyes (1918) - Pegeen O'Barry Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919) - Julie The Life Line (1919) - Ruth Heckett Eyes of Youth (1919) - Rita Ashling The Broken Butterfly (1919) - Marcene Elliot Soldiers of Fortune (1919) - Hope Langham The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1920, Lost film) - Melissa Dangerous Days (1920) - Delight Haverford The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920, Lost film) - Marge O'Doone Seeds of Vengeance (1920) - Ellen Daw The Untamed (1920) - Kate Cumberland A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921, Incomplete, only reels 2, 4, and 7 exist) - Sandy Snowblind (1921) - The Girl Salvation Nell (1921) - Nell Sanders The Forgotten Woman (1921) - Dixie LaRose Wife Against Wife (1921) - Gabrielle Gautier Flower of the North (1921) - Jeanne D'Arcambal My Wild Irish Rose (1922, Lost film) - Moya If You Believe It, It's So (1922, Lost film) - Alvah Morley The Kingdom Within (1922) - Emily Preston Lost and Found on a South Sea Island (1923) - Lorna Little Church Around the Corner (1923) - Hetty Burrows The Little Girl Next Door (1923) - Mary Slocum His Last Race (1923) - Denny's Wife In the Palace of the King (1923) - Inez Mendoza Eyes of the Forest (1923) - Ruth Melier Arizona Express (1924) - Katherine Keith Missing Daughters (1924) - Pauine Hinton Dante's Inferno (1924) - The Nurse - Marjorie Vernon Hearts of Oak (1924, Lost film) - Chrystal Forbidden Paradise (1924) - Anna Adventure (1925, Lost film) - Joan Lackland The Devil's Cargo (1925) - Far Sampson The Man Without a Country (1925) - Anne Bissell Sun-Up (1925) - Emmy Bright Lights (1925, Lost, only the trailer exists) - Patsy Delaney War Paint (1926, Lost, only the trailer exists) - Polly Hopkins Love's Blindness (1926, Lost, only a fragment exists) - Vanessa Levy Camille (1926, Short) - Nan Honesty – The Best Policy (1926) - Mary Kay Captain Salvation (1927) - Bess Morgan Dance Magic (1927) - Johala Chandler Streets of Shanghai (1927) - Mary Sanger The Perfect Sap (1927) as Polly Stoddard The Viking (1928) - Helga Nilsson Man, Woman and Wife (1929) - Julia / Rita The Mysterious Island (1929) A Royal Romance (1930) - Countess von Baden What Men Want (1930) - Lee Joyce $20 a Week (1935) - Sally Blair She Knew All the Answers (1941) - Prim Woman (uncredited) Lost Angel (1943) - Bobby's Mother (uncredited) (final film role)