The Perils of Pauline

Pearl White making The Perils of Pauline

The PERILS OF PAULINE featured a young actress called Pearl White, a Missouri farm girl, part Italian (her father) and part Irish (her mother).  THE PERILS OF PAULINE became a huge sensation. Even Madame Sarah Bernhardt requested an audience with the young Pearl White telling her how she had longed to meet her, how the screen adventuress was worshipped by the soldiers back in France fighting in the war against Germany.