
Format: Hardback
Pages: 672
ISBN: 9780813196831
Pub Date: 07 Mar 2023
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Illustrations: 52 b&w illustrations
Description:
In the early days of motion pictures - before superstars, before studio conglomerates, before even the advent of sound - there was a woman named Pearl White (1889-1938). A quintessential beauty of the time, with her perfectly tousled bob and come-hither stare, White's rise to stardom was swift; her assumption of the title of queen of American motion picture serials equally deserved. Born the youngest of five children in a small, rural Missouri farm town, White left high school at only 15, taking on jobs to help keep her family financially afloat, work that included small parts in plays for a local stock company.