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The Perils of Pauline (1947)

APPROVED 96 min  -  Biography | Comedy  -   4 July 1947 (USA)
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Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play... See full summary »

Director:

George Marshall

Writers:

P.J. Wolfson (screenplay), Frank Butler (screenplay), and 1 more credit »
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The Perils of Pauline -- Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Betty Hutton ...
Pearl White
John Lund John Lund ...
Michael Farrington
Billy De Wolfe ...
Mr. Timmy Timmons
William Demarest William Demarest ...
George 'Mac' McGuire
Constance Collier Constance Collier ...
Julia Gibbs
Frank Faylen ...
Mr. Joe Gurt
William Farnum William Farnum ...
Western Saloon Set Hero
Chester Conklin Chester Conklin ...
Comic Chef
Paul Panzer Paul Panzer ...
Drawing Room Gent
'Snub' Pollard 'Snub' Pollard ...
Western Saloon Set Propman (as Snub Pollard)
James Finlayson James Finlayson ...
Comic Chef
Creighton Hale Creighton Hale ...
Marcelled Leading Man
Hank Mann Hank Mann ...
Comic Chef
Francis McDonald Francis McDonald ...
Western Saloon Set Heavy
Bert Roach Bert Roach ...
Western Saloon Set Bartender
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Storyline

Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>  

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Plot Keywords:

Sweatshop | Silent Film Star | Audition | Spinal Injury | Actor  | See more »

Genres:

Biography | Comedy

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Pauline, laß das Küssen sein See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures See more »
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Technical Specs

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Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. However, because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package; as it turned out, the copyright was apparently not renewed, the film fell into public domain, and is now handled by a multitude of distributors. See more »

Goofs

Factual errors: In real life, after sustaining a back injury as a result of an accident while filming _The Perils of Pauline (1914)_, Pearl White used a stunt-double, although this was never publicized until after he himself died as a result of an accident during the making of Plunder, at which time the truth came out, and Pearl retired from films and moved to Paris, where she died in 1938 as a result of a liver ailment, alcoholism and drugs. In the film, Pearl's accident occurs on the Paris stage after her film career was over, and we are led to believe that now, unable to walk, she lived happily ever after with her fictitious husband. See more »

Connections

References Teddy at the Throttle (1917) See more »

Soundtracks

"I Wish I Didn't Love You So"
(1947) (uncredited)
Written by Frank Loesser
Played during the opening credits and often as background music
Sung by Betty Hutton at Millick's See more »