Pauline Frederick — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

Pauline Frederick, one of the most famous of American stage and screen stars, was born in Boston, Mass., August 12, 1885.

After completing her education in the Boston public schools, and at a private finishing school, she made her professional debut with The Rogers Brothers in Harvard, at the Knickerbocker Theatre, New York, on September 1, 1902. She played Titania in A Princess of Kensington, at the Broadway Theatre, New York, in 1903, and was later starred as the Countess Pokota in It Happened in Nordland. After starring in The Little Gray Lady, she played Elsie Vernette in Samson with William Gillette, and under the management of A. H. Woods in Innocent, at the Eltinge Theatre, New York, in 1914–15.

Miss Frederick then devoted herself to the cinema until August, 1922, when she returned to the spoken drama, again under the direction of A. H. Woods, in The Guilty One, in which she is now touring the country.

Miss Frederick began her screen career as a star with the Famous Players. Her first picture, “The Eternal City,” was made in Rome in 1915. She then appeared as the star of the following pictures: “Zaza,” “La Tosca,” “Bella Donna,” “Lydia Gilmore,” “The Spider,” “Audrey,” “The Moment Before,” “The World’s Great Snare,” and “The Woman in the Case.” For Goldwyn she made, during 1919–20: “Bonds of Love,” “Loves of Letty,” “The Woman in Room 13,” “The Pallister Case,” “Roads of Destiny,” and “Madame X.”

Miss Frederick is five feet, four and one-half inches tall, weighs 125 pounds, has brown hair and grey eyes. Her name in private life is Pauline Frederick. Her home is at Beverly Hills, California.

Miss Frederick is fond of out-door life, and is especially devoted to horses. Her hobbies include rough-riding, roping, entertaining in her private barbecue camp, and all sports incidental to the use of her stable, which includes several of the best horses in the so-called California stock class.

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Pauline Frederick’s Beverly Hills home (above) and sunken gardens (right).

Portrait by James R. Connelly • Chicago

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)