Pauline Curley
| Pauline Curley Peach | |
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| Born |
Pauline Curley December 19, 1903 Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | December 11, 2000 (aged 96) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Pneumonia |
| Other names | Pauline Peach |
| Occupation | actress |
| Years active | 1912–1929 |
| Spouse(s) | Kenneth Peach (May 22, 1922–27 February 1988, his death, 3 children) |
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| Relatives | 7 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandchild. |
Pauline Curley (December 19, 1903 – December 11, 2000) was a vaudeville and silent film actress from Holyoke, Massachusetts. Her film career spanned much of the silent era, from 1912-1929.
Pauline Curley's mother, Rose Curley, brought her into show business at the age of 4, at first on stage in vaudeville shows. In 1910 at 6 years old Rose brought Pauline to New York City to find her work in the newly established silent movie industry and on the stage, getting her bit parts in a variety of movies, as well as weekly stage performances in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Lord Fauntleroy for the Jack Packard Stock Company. In 1915 at 11 she appeared on stage in "Polygamy" at the Park Theatre in New York City. Her mother gave different ages for Pauline depending on the requirements of the role, leaving her confused about her actual age, which she only learned in 1998 when she was 94.
Pauline Curley's acting career spanned the period of 1903 starting as a baby and finishing when she was 15 in 1929, after which she retired from acting although she retained a connection to the movie business through her cinematographer husband.
Curley's first motion picture was Tangled Relations (1912). She played one of the children in a movie which starred Florence Lawrence and Owen Moore. For an audition for The Straight Road in 1914, Pauline was dressed as a boy to land a part as an orphan; a variety of such roles followed, "cornering the market in orphans and waifs".
In 1915 she played the Claudia Frawley in Life Without Soul, an adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
She married cinematographer Kenneth Peach in 1922, taking his last name as Pauline Curley Peach and remaining married until his death in 1988. They were married for nearly 66 years. They had three children, two sons and one daughter, Their children were Kenneth Peach Jr. (29 June 1930 – 22 March 2006), Pauline Rose (1935–present) Martin (1949-present). Pauline died a few days short of her 97th birthday. She was survived by her 3 children, 7 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandchild.
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