Pauline Moore (
June 14
1914 –
December 7
2001) was a popular
B-movie actress of the
1930s and 1940s.
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
, she began her career moving to Hollywood
in the early 1930s, and also starred on Broadway
and worked
as a model.
From the late 1930s through the early 1940s, Moore made twenty four
films for
20th Century Fox, with
whom she was contracted. She later worked for
Republic Pictures, starring in four
Roy Rogers westerns, as well as the film
King of the Texas Rangers in 1940, starring
football great
Sammy Baugh.
Moore starred in three
Charlie Chan
films, starring alongside
Cesar Romero,
Allan Lane, and
Kane Richmond. She also starred alongside
Shirley Temple in the 1937 film
Heidi, and alongside
Henry Fonda in the 1939 film
Young Mr. Lincoln.
In the early 1940s she retired from acting, and became a mother of
three children, but continued to act into the 1950s. From her first
uncredited role in 1931 through to her last role in 1958 her career
spanned a total of thirty films. She was twice married, and widowed
both times. She made a few
television
appearances in the 1950s, including a bit part in
Spoilers of
the Forrest in 1957 alongside
Rod
Cameron and
Vera Ralston, but for
the most part her acting career had ended, by her own choice.
She died
of Lou Gehrig's disease in
2001, at a nursing home in Sequim,
Washington
.
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