Pearl White — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Pearl White recalls, without the least sign of embarrassment or blushes but rather with main laughs, the days when she used to run about the dusty streets of her home town in Missouri, a little red headed, freckle-faced girl with a family of broken down dollies under her arm. Nobody knew her then but her parents and the neighbors.

Now — well that’s different — the mere mention of the name of Pearl White suggests the Pathé players and the heroine role of The Perils of Pauline series. Of all the characters she has portrayed during her two years at the Jersey City studio her favorite is the one in which she is now working, Pauline. It is an exciting and often a dangerous one, but that accounts for much of its charm.

All the assurance Miss White needs is that the realism will make a good picture and the dangers are discounted at once.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, July 1914