Pauline Frederick
Pauline Frederick ( born August 12, 1883 in Boston, Massachusetts, † September 19, 1938 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California; actually Beatrice Pauline Libbey ) was an American actress.
Life
Pauline Frederick came in 1883 as the daughter of a railway employee in Boston to the world. From 1902 she appeared several times on Broadway, where she worked primarily as a soubrette in musicals and comedies was used, but later also in serious roles made a name. At the age of 32 she was in The Eternal City, her film debut. She was then a popular actress of the silent film era. She appeared in several dozen films with this time, almost all of them now lost. After the advent of the talkies Frederick had only sporadic film appearances. She was mostly occupied in authoritarian mother roles. In This Modern Age 1931, she played the mother of Joan Crawford again a greater role. A year before her death, she was a Chinese matriarch in the crime film Mr. Moto and China Treasure (1937 ) opposite Peter Lorre to see.
Frederick was married five times and had a daughter. She died at age 55 of complications from asthma. Her grave is located in the Grand View Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Your dedicated a star on Broadway.