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Pauline Garon(1901-1965)

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Pauline Garon
Born in Montreal, the youngest of 11 children, Pauline Garon spent seven years at one of the most prestigious convent schools in Montreal, le Sacre-Coeur. She wasn't yet 20 when she ran away to New York to become an actress. After some success on Broadway in plays such as "Buddies" and "Sonny," she made her first movie, either as Dorothy Gish's double or in a small part, in Remodeling Her Husband (1920). She got her first important film role the following year as William H. Tooker's daughter-in-law in The Power Within (1921). By 1922, her star was rising steadily: she was Owen Moore's leading lady in Reported Missing (1922) and was the ingenue in Henry King's much-acclaimed adaptation of Sonny (1922). In 1923, she was hailed as Cecil B. DeMille's new discovery, and he cast her in Adam's Rib (1923). She was also a Wampas Baby Star that year.

Until the end of the decade, Pauline Garon was a popular flapper and a second-rank star. She starred in more than 20 films, most of them Povery Row productions. She also played the second female lead in many A movies.

In the 'thirties, after a few leads in French versions of Hollywood films and in comedy shorts, she would get smaller and smaller roles despite her pleasant voice and her perfect "Hollywood English" pronunciation. By 1935, she was only playing bit roles; her last one was in How Green Was My Valley (1941) in which she said only one word: "Divorce."

She died, of a brain disorder, at the Patton State Hospital in 1965.
BornSeptember 9, 1901
DiedAugust 30, 1965(63)
BornSeptember 9, 1901
DiedAugust 30, 1965(63)
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Edmund Breese, Clyde Cook, Pauline Garon, and Grant Withers in In the Headlines (1929)
Clive Brook, Pauline Garon, Winter Hall, and Irene Rich in Compromise (1925)
Betty Compson and Pauline Garon in Temptations of a Shop Girl (1927)
Robert Agnew and Pauline Garon in The College Hero (1927)
Pauline Garon
Lew Cody, Marceline Day, Pauline Garon, Sally O'Neil, and Aileen Pringle in By Appointment Only (1933)
Reginald Denny, Pauline Garon, Lee Moran, and Marian Nixon in Where Was I? (1925)
Neely Edwards, Pauline Garon, and Johnnie Walker in The Princess on Broadway (1927)
Pauline Garon, Lloyd Hughes, Johnnie Walker, and Bert Woodruff in Children of Dust (1923)
Rosemary Cooper, Pauline Garon, and Allan Simpson in The Girl He Didn't Buy (1928)
Pauline Garon and Eddie Gribbon in Parlez Vous (1930)
Pauline Garon, Eddie Gribbon, and Slim Summerville in Parlez Vous (1930)

Known for

Christine of the Big Tops
  • Christine
  • 1926
Rosemary Cooper, Pauline Garon, and Allan Simpson in The Girl He Didn't Buy (1928)
The Girl He Didn't Buy
  • Ruth Montaigne
  • 1928
Neely Edwards, Pauline Garon, and Johnnie Walker in The Princess on Broadway (1927)
The Princess on Broadway
  • Mary Ryan
  • 1927
The Heart of Broadway (1928)
The Heart of Broadway
  • Roberta Clemmons
  • 1928

Credits

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  • Ricardo Cortez, Joan Dixon, and Robert Sterling in Bunco Squad (1950)
    Bunco Squad
    • Mary (uncredited)
    • 1950
  • Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Sara Allgood, Donald Crisp, John Loder, Walter Pidgeon, and Evan S. Evans in How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    How Green Was My Valley
    • Bit Part (uncredited)
    • 1941
  • Mary Beth Hughes and George Montgomery in The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941)
    The Cowboy and the Blonde
    • Office Worker (uncredited)
    • 1941
  • Alice Faye in Lillian Russell (1940)
    Lillian Russell
    • Extra (uncredited)
    • 1940
  • Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert in Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
    Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
    • Customer (uncredited)
    • 1938
  • Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Shall We Dance (1937)
    Shall We Dance
    • Undetermined Role (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Warren Hull, Jean Muir, and Beverly Roberts in Her Husband's Secretary (1937)
    Her Husband's Secretary
    • Louise, Carol's Maid (uncredited)
    • 1937
  • Anne Nagel and Dick Purcell in King of Hockey (1936)
    King of Hockey
    • Marie (uncredited)
    • 1936
  • Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Jack Oakie, and Dick Powell in Colleen (1936)
    Colleen
    • Maid (uncredited)
    • 1936
  • Dick Foran in Song of the Saddle (1936)
    Song of the Saddle
    • Settler's Wife (uncredited)
    • 1936
  • Leo Carrillo, George Raft, and Rosalind Russell in It Had to Happen (1936)
    It Had to Happen
    • French Maid (uncredited)
    • 1936
  • Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay, and Franchot Tone in Dangerous (1935)
    Dangerous
    • Betty - Gail's Maid (uncredited)
    • 1935
  • Guy Kibbee and Zasu Pitts in Going Highbrow (1935)
    Going Highbrow
    • Josephine - the French Maid (uncredited)
    • 1935
  • Becky Sharp (1935)
    Becky Sharp
    • Fifine
    • 1935
  • Maurice Chevalier and Natalie Paley in L'homme des Folies Bergère (1935)
    L'homme des Folies Bergère
    • Lulu
    • 1935

Stunts

  • Doubling for Romeo (1921)
    Doubling for Romeo
    • stunt double: Sylvia Breamer
    • 1921

Personal details

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  • Height
    • 5′ 1½″ (1.56 m)
  • Born
    • September 9, 1901
    • Montréal, Québec, Canada
  • Died
    • August 30, 1965
    • San Bernardino, California, USA(brain disorder)
  • Spouses
      Ross ForresterMay 9, 1953 - December 22, 1964 (his death)
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