Pauline Curley(1903-2000)
- Actress
Coming from a theatrical family (her mother was an actress), Pauline
Curley was an actress from the age of five, and toured the vaudeville
circuit with her family. Her first known film role came in 1913, and
although her movie career lasted 16 years, she never made the top, or
even the middle, ranks of stardom. She made a few well-received serials
for Vitagraph, and was in one of
Douglas Fairbanks' more
popular swashbucklers,
Douglas au pays des mosquées (1918), but she
doesn't seem to have been able to capitalize on it, as she was soon
appearing in very low-budget, two-reel
Leo D. Maloney and
Jack Perrin westerns. Soon the pictures got
even cheaper, her roles got even smaller, and by 1929 (the year of her
last known film,
Le signe sur la porte (1929), in which
she had an unbilled bit part) she had apparently left the industry
altogether. She was married, from 1922 to his death in 1988, to
cinematographer Kenneth Peach. Two of
their children followed them into the film business:
Kenneth Peach Jr., who became a
cinematographer, and Martin Peach, who had
a career as a key grip.
Pauline Curley died in 2000 in Santa Monica, CA, aged 96.
Pauline Curley died in 2000 in Santa Monica, CA, aged 96.
