Pauline Frederick
Also Known As: Pauline Beatrice Libbey, Pauline Beatrice Libby, Polly Frederick
Biography: Pauline Frederick (born Pauline Beatrice Libbey) was an American stage and screen actress. Her film career spanned the years 1915-1937.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: August 11, 1883
Deathday: September 19, 1938
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Phantom of Crestwood
Overview: Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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Her Better Self
Overview: Even though society debutante Vivian Tyler (Pauline Frederick) is engaged to Count Belloto (Frank deRheim), she finds herself attracted to Dr. Robert Keith (Thomas Meighan). Keith works amongst the poor, and his wealthy benefactors include Vivian's father (Charles Wellesley). But when Vivian meets streetwalker Aggie May (Alice Hollister), she mistakenly believes that Keith is responsible for the woman's downfall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-21
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Mrs. Dane's Defense
Overview: An Englishwoman misbehaves in Canada, driving a traveling companion to suicide and bearing a secret child whom she whisks away. When she returns to England to receive an inheritance, her bad deeds catch up to her. The film is presumed lost.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-07
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Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Overview: Another entry in the popular one-reel series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-05
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Mumsie
Overview: A pacifist gambler turns spy and gives his father's gas factory plans to the enemy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-02
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Bonds of Love
Overview: A young woman is hired as a governess for the son of a man grieving the loss of his wife. The governess's presence is unwelcome to the rest of the family, especially after the governess develops a romantic attachment to her employer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-02
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Thank You, Mr. Moto
Overview: Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-24
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The Woman in Room 13
Overview: Laura Bruce is married to John Bruce, police commissioner. She discovers her husband is enjoying a drunken revel with another woman, and vows she will obtain a divorce. After doing so she weds Paul Ramsey. His employer, Dick Turner, a libertine, offers his a responsible position in the west, and she faces a long separation. Ramsey later learns that Turner is interested in his wife and engages a man to protect her, who happens to be her former husband.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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Sapho
Overview: The classic story of a flower girl from the slums who becomes Sapho.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-11
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Smouldering Fires
Overview: A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-18
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Ramona
Overview: Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-25
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The Eternal City
Overview: Leone, a Papal guard, is devastated when his wife drowns herself after mistakenly thinking that he had abandoned her. He turns over his son David to be brought up by nuns, then enters a monastery. David is brought to London and is raised to be a beggar and thief until he is rescued by Dr. Roselli, an Italian political refugee, who raises David with his daughter Donna Roma. Years later David gets heavily involved in Italian politics and incurs the enmity of the corrupt Italian Prime Minister, which leads him to discover the hidden secrets of his family's past--and present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-12
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This Modern Age
Overview: A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-29
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Devil's Island
Overview: A wealthy Parisian surgeon finds himself serving time in a brutal penal colony.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-20
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Three Women
Overview: A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-18
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Social Register
Overview: Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-10
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Out of the Shadow
Overview: Ruth Minchin is unhappily married to her father's former business partner, a drunken brute. She contracts a friendship for Severino, a pianist, who lives in the same apartment house, and Minchin, discovering them together, orders the pianist from the room and knocks his wife down. Severino kills Minchin in a delirium following pneumonia, and Ruth is suspected of the crime.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-05
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The Paliser Case
Overview: A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-15
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The Woman on the Index
Overview: Sylvia Martin is a destitute young woman who is taken home by Louis Gordon. She doesn't realize he's the leader of a gang of crooks until after she marries him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-23
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Sold
Overview: A successful artist and a struggling one both love the same woman; she chooses the poor one but as the years roll on and other choices she makes and her husband’s misunderstanding lead to a near breaking point for the couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-05
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Zaza
Overview: Zaza is a music hall star in Paris. She meets Bernard Dufrene and a flirtation develops into an intense love on her part. She is in despair when she discovers that he already has a wife and child. To visit them and announce herself as the mistress of the husband and father is her first idea, but the charm of the child restrains her. She cannot strike the blow and passes off her visit with an improvised excuse. She dismisses Bernard and returns to the stage, where she gains real fame as a dramatic artist. Once more he seeks her, but again the memory of the child saves her to her better self.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-11
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Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1
Overview: Film in the style of a magazine. Various topics, e.g. reading from the book "Ich lasse Dich nicht"; explanation of how a telephone conversation between Berlin and New York works; making a martini; sports teacher Siegfried Dietrich on gymnastic exercises; a sketch; a pop song; revue girls. Maria Ney hosts the program.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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Self Defense
Overview: Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-15
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Wayward
Overview: Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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Madame X
Overview: Jacqueline Floriot is driven from her home by her husband Louis, a deputy attorney of Paris, because of his unjust suspicions regarding her relations with another man. Floriot forbids Jacqueline to see her baby boy, who is dangerously ill, and when informed that the boy believes her dead, she attempts suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-28
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On Trial
Overview: A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-01
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Evidence
Overview: Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the profligate Major Pollock. Myra goes into seclusion while Pollock, intending to conceal Myra's innocence, goes to Burma. A few years later Myra sees Kenyon in the park with Mrs. Debenham, a widow with designs on Wimborne. Noting the resemblance between the lady in the park (whom he calls his "princess") and a photograph of his mother, Kenyon invites Myra to dinner at a time when his father, who has curtailed the visits to the park, plans to be away. At the same time Harold Courtenay, an old family friend, sees an opportunity to reunite the estranged couple.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-05
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My Marriage
Overview: When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-31
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The Love That Lives
Overview: When her husband Pete is shot over a craps game, Molly McGill goes to work as a scrubwoman to support her two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-09
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The Mistress of Shenstone
Overview: The husband of Lady Myra Ingleby is off fighting in the World War. She is devastated when Sir Derysk Brand tells her that her husband has been killed. The War Office gives her the details - Lord Ingleby was killed, not by enemy fire, but because of an error committed by one of his fellowmen, whose name is never to be disclosed. The grieving widow retreats to her Cornwall estate for a rest. Staying at the inn is a man known as Jim Airth, who carries a grief of his own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-27
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Josselyn's Wife
Overview: Only six months of marital bliss and Lillian Josselyn is filled with dread at the return of Pierre Marchand, her former lover, who left her to marry Ellen Latimer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-15
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Her Honor, the Governor
Overview: The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house. Having refused to support a water power bill endorsed by Jim Dornton, the political boss of the state, the governor is threatened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-19
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Married Flirts
Overview: Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. Jill Wetherell, who is looking for a rich husband, finds Wayne to be easy prey and Nelly catches them together. She divorces Wayne and travels to Europe. Jill, however, throws Wayne over for Perley Rex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-27
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The Moment Before
Overview: The film begins by presenting the elderly and elegant Duke and Duchess of Maldon, engaged in charitable acts in a Dickensian village. The following day, the duke falls off his horse and is mortally injured. Mourning the loss of her great love, the duchess collapses in church, and in the “moment before death” she reviews her own life. “It was in her youth that she had fractured practically all the Biblical commandments,” says the intertitle. In fact, when she was young, Madge the duchess was a seductive gypsy, engaged to the fiery gypsy John, but fascinated by Harold, the idle aristocratic son of the Maldons, who was prone to the family vice of excessive drinking. In love with the gypsy, Harold brings her home as a servant, scandalizing his older brother. A fight between the brothers and John’s jealousy lead to a fatal accident that forces both Harold and the gypsy couple to flee to Australia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-27
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The Sacred Flame
Overview: Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-24
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Bella Donna
Overview: Bella Donna ( Pauline Frederick ) a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine ( Thomas Holding ) into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi. To get rid of Nigel, she begins slowly poisoning him. However, Nigel's friend Dr. Isaacson arrives in time to save him. Now Baroudi wants nothing to do with Bella, and neither does her husband. Totally alone now, the distraught Bella wanders off into the desert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-15
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Paid in Full
Overview: A bookkeeper's embezzling scheme is discovered by his wife, while his boss's romantic feelings for her complicate matters further.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-23
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Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Overview: The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-01
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The Loves of Letty
Overview: Letty Shell, a clerk in a London brokerage office, is discouraged by her lack of fine clothes and social position. She becomes infatuated with Nevill Letchmere, a debonair idler from a good family, and believes that he wants to marry her, but after her boss, Bernard Mandeville, who has risen to power and wealth, and who wants to marry Letty, warns Letchmere to keep away from her, Letchmere confesses that he is married. Disappointed, Letty accepts Mandeville's proposal, but when she sees Mandeville's boorishness in a restaurant, she returns to Letchmere. Just as she is about to become his mistress, Letchmere receives word that his married sister has eloped with a lover. When he curses his sister for acting like a "shop girl," Letty realizes that he views her and her class without respect. She leaves and accepts the love of her faithful friend Richard Perry, a poor photographer, whose rich uncle is going to help him in business
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-07
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The Lure of Jade
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-13
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The Spider
Overview: Valerie St. Cyr, seizes a chance for excitement and money, deserts her infant daughter Joan and her impoverished husband and runs away to Paris with the Count Du Poissy. Years later, without knowing that they are mother and daughter, both Valerie and Joan fall in love with artist Julian St. Saens, who rejects the former but becomes engaged to the latter. Enraged, Valerie convinces the count to kidnap Joan, but after she is captured, Joan stabs the count to death. When Valerie learns that Joan is her daughter, she takes the blame for the murder and goes to the guillotine while Joan, still unaware that Valerie is her mother, makes plans with Julian for their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-27
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