Pauline Frederick, 1883-1938.
No. 6706 Scan of Pauline Frederick as Queen Elizabethy, photo published in Pauline Frederick on and off the stage. By Muriel Elwood. Chicago, 1940.
Pauline Frederick was a stage and screen actress of international reputation.
Pauline Frederick was born Pauline Beatrice Libby on August 12, 1883. She died Sept. 19, 1938. When she was about a year old, her family moved from Boston to Dorchester. In 1902 she began her career with a week’s engagement at the Boston Music Hall, and she soon moved to New York where she began in the chorus of “The Rogers Brothers in Harvard.”
Her beauty was legendary. When the sculptor, Ulric Ellerhusen, was still unknown, he saw a picture of Pauline Frederick in a magazine and chose her as his model of a typical American girl. The figure that he first created from the magazine illustration won him a prize, and he continued to use the same figure as the pattern for all his subsequent feminine models. Thus, unbeknownst to Pauline Frederick until later, “her face and figure were molded in stone and bronze for several decades and appeared on many famous buildings, gracing memorial parks, state capitols and sculptured facades. She was the figure of the twenty-one life-size statues on the Chapel of the University of Chicago and the model of Wonderment on the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, as well as the four fifty-foot figures on the State Capitol in Louisiana” among others.
Pauline Frederick played the role of Madame X and was known by this name as well.
Stage and Screen Appearances
Stage
Musical Comedy
Rogers Brothers in Harvard
Princess of Kensington
It Happened in Nordland
Plays
Little Gray Lady
The Girl in White
When Knights Were Bold
Twenty Days in the Shade
Toddles
Dollar Mark
The Fourth Estate
The Paper Chase
Joseph and His Brethren
Innocent
Don’t Shoot
The Guilty One
Spring Cleaning
Madame X
The Scarlet Woman
Elizabeth the Queen
When the Bough Breaks
The Queen Was in the Parlor
Housewarming
As Husbands Go
Criminal at Large
Her Majesty the Widow
Mary of Scotland
Masque of Kings
Suspect
In Australia:
Spring Cleaning
The Lady
In England:
Madame X
Screen
Silent
Famous Players Film Company:
The Eternal City
Sold
Bella Donna
Zaza
La Tosca
Mrs. Dane’s Defence
Resurrection
Her Final Reckoning
Fedora
Ashes of Embers
The Worlds Greatest Snare
The Woman in the Case
The Slave Market
Sapho
Sleeping Fires
Lydia Gilmore
The Spider
Audrey
The Moment Before
Her Better Self
The Love That Lives
Double Crossed
The Hungry Heart
Madame Jealousy
Daughter of the Old South
Paid in Full
Out of the Shadow
Nanette of the Wilds
Goldwyn Company:
The Woman on the Index
One Week of Life
Bonds of Love
Loves of Letty
Paliser Case
The Woman in Room 13
Madame X
Roads of Destiny
Robertson and Cole:
A Slave of Vanity
The Mistress of Shenstone
Salvage
The Sting of the Lash
The Lure of Jade
The Glory of Clementina
Vitagraph Company:
Let No Man Put Asunder
Universal Film Company:
Smouldering Fires
Warner Brothers:
Three Women
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
Married Flirts
Whitman Bennett Studio:
The Nest
Chadwick Picture Corporation:
Devil’s Island
Tiffany Productions
Josselyn’s Wife
(In London, England)
Herbert Wilcox Productions:
Mumsie
Talking
Warner Brothers:
On Trial
Evidence
The Sacred Flame
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
The Modern Age
Paramount:
Wayward
Self Defense
The Phantom of Crestwood
Twentieth-Century-Fox:
My Marriage
Ramona
Thank You Mr. Moto
Source:
Elwood, Muriel. Pauline Frederick On and Off the Stage. Chicago: A. Kroch, 1940.