Pearl White

Pearl Fay White (Green Ridge, 4 March 1889 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 4 August 1938) was an American actress who became known in the silent film period. ==Biography[ Edit] == White was born in 1889 in Green Ridge. Some sources claim that she was born in 1897 and smuggled to her identity several years extra to appear more mature than to 'Mary Pickford'. This was first revealed after her death, by her father. However, it was never confirmed. Little is known about her former life. A collection of interviews with White over the years shows that they regularly lied to the press, causing many of her sensational life stories be dismissed as falsehoods. So they claimed that almost all her family to life came to a tragic death, that they are already meetourde the age of five with a stage production of Uncle Tom's cabin , and as a teenager joined a circus, where she worked as a trapeze artist.

According to a biographer died her mother when White was three years old. It is known that they broke through in amateur theatre and in 1907 married colleague Victor Sutherland. It was a problematic marriage and a divorce followed in 1914. In 1910 she got a movie contract with the unknown studio The Powers Film Company and made a number of films, until they moved to Philadelphia in 1911 . There she joined the professional film studio Lubin Film Company, working in front of some well-known actors, including Arthur Johnson and Florence Lawrence. However, she was soon dismissed and told yourself that this was due to her lack of acting experience.

Not much later White signed to Pathé Company. They only appeared in a few movies, before she started working for Crystal Film Company. Here they first got public attention. She played in a handful of movies that have experienced a great success, including Pearl as a Clairvoyant, Pearl's Admirers, Pearl as a Detective (all 1913) andWhat Pearl's Pearls Did (1914). After this success, she returned to Pathé, where they grew into a star. They appeared in a number of serials, which have experienced immense popularity. Nevertheless, it never reached the Dutch cinema, allowing white's name was not established in Netherlands. [1]

One of her most famous serials was The Perils of Pauline, a 20-part film series, with which White grew into a famous teen idol. Said she did her own stunts and was serious injuries on. over the years, she appeared in numerous films. In 1919 she married actor Wallace McCutcheon. That same year she left Pathé for a movie contract with Fox Film Corporation, where she was in nine movies to see. Almost all the movies flopten, making White in 1923 returned to Pathé. There came one of the stunt men during the shooting of a movie tragically killed. White hit traumatized and traveled to Europe, where she made her debut in the theatre.

In her later life she suffered from all the stunts that got White had performed. In 1933 she was forced to the hospital permanently in. She died five years later. The huge Fortune left them after to its partner Theodore Cossika.