Background
Her mother gave different ages for Pauline depending on the requirements of the role, leaving her confused about her actual age, which she only learned in 1998 when she was 94.
Her mother gave different ages for Pauline depending on the requirements of the role, leaving her confused about her actual age, which she only learned in 1998 when she was 94.
Her film career spanned much of the silent era, from 1912-1929. Pauline Curley"s mother, Rose Curley, brought her into show business at the age of 4, at first on stage in vaudeville shows. In 1915 at 11 she appeared on stage in "Polygamy" at the Park Theatre in New York City.
Entry into movies Curley"s first motion picture was Tangled Relations (1912).
She played one of the children in a movie which starred Florence Lawrence and Owen Moore. Foreign an audition for The Straight Road in 1914, Pauline was dressed as a boy to land a part as an orphan.
A variety of such roles followed, "cornering the market in orphans and waifs". In 1915 she played the ingenue Claudia Frawley in Life Without Soul, an adaptation of Mary Shelley"s Frankenstein.
Personal life Move to Hollywood Her mother took Pauline Curley to Hollywood in 1917 in search of more lucrative work.
She soon landed the role of Princess Irina of Russia in Herbert Brenon"s The Fall of the Romanovs, her first Hollywood work and, according to Variety, her best known. In 1918 she was a leading lady in five films, including working opposite Douglas Fairbanks as the leading lady in King Vidor"s first full-length feature, The Turn in the Road. Curley supported Douglas Fairbanks and Tully Marshall in Bound in Morocco (1918).
This is a farcical tale of a young American"s adventures in Morocco.
In 1920 she was featured in The Invisible Hand, a Vitagraph serial with Brinsley Shaw and Antonio Moreno. lieutenant was directed by William J. Bauman.
This was her first Western, a genre that would henceforth dominate her work. In 1926 Curley played with Helen Chadwick, Jack Mulhall, and Emmett King, in The Naked Truth.
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