Pauline Frederick (August 12, 1883, Boston - September 19, 1938, Beverly Hills, California) was an actress best known for her Hollywood films. Pauline Frederick was born as Pauline Beatrice Libby in 1883. “My birthday is - or rather was, for I have had my last - August 12,” she later stated in an interview published in Motion Picture Magazine. “On that date, according to records, I joined the other little beans in Boston. I had four nationalities from which to choose my temperament - first my good old United States; second my mother’s ancestors, who were Scotch; and third, my father’s who were French and English. Such a combination I realized beforehand would be essential to the making of a picture star and acted accordingly.” she was an established stage actor when she made her first film in 1915. She made her last film in 1937. The following year, she died of complications from asthma.
|