The Perils of Pauline

Fabricated biography of silent serial queen, Pearl White. A frantic re-creation of old time Hollywood, with plenty of slapstick chases. Stars Betty Hutton, Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest, Constance Collier and Frank Faylen. Based on the story by P.J. Wolfson, with credit to Charles W. Goddard who wrote the original serial.

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Credits

producer

Sol Siegel

director

George Marshall

production company

Paramount Pictures

Duration

01:36:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1947

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

300510

Language

English

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → White, Pearl

Comedy

Comedy → Slapstick comedies

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - United States

People → White, Pearl

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

TMDB-Movie

149687

Wikidata

Q3073101

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United States, 1947