Pauline Starke: Big Screen Beauty, Briefly
Pauline Starke (1901-77), a major silent film star during the 1920s, found herself in films almost accidentally. As a teenager, she did extra work in The Claws of Greed (1914) and D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916). Within a year Frank Borzage was casting her in lead roles. Major early films included The Untamed (1920), Salvation Nell […]