Arline Pretty
{{Short description|American actress (1885–1978)}}
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| name = Arline Pretty
| image = Arline Pretty (Feb 1923).png
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| birth_date = September 5, 1885
| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = April 14, 1978 (aged 92)
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1913-1935 (film)
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Arline Pretty (September 5, 1885 – April 14, 1978) was an American film actress of the silent era.Munden p.616
Life and career
Pretty was born September 5, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.{{cite web |title=Arline Pretty |url=http://www.bfi-staging.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba692b304 |website=British Film Institute |access-date=April 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210401003955/http://www.bfi-staging.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba692b304 |archive-date=April 1, 2021 |url-status=live }} Her mother was a musician.{{cite web |last1=Wollstein |first1=Hans J. |title=Arline Pretty |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/arline-pretty-p57747 |website=AllMovie |access-date=August 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831022556/https://www.allmovie.com/artist/arline-pretty-p57747 |archive-date=August 31, 2021}}
For three years, Pretty acted on stage in Washington, D. C., with the Columbia Stock Company before debuting in films in 1913.
Her early film experience was as a supporting actress for King Baggot at Universal. After that, she acted for the Vitagraph Company in leading ingenue parts. She appeared as the daughter of a jailer with Douglas Fairbanks in In Again, Out Again.{{cite journal |title=This Week's Mirror Cover |journal=Dramatic Mirror |date=April 7, 1917 |volume=LXXVII |issue=1998 |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lWtDAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Arline+Pretty%22&pg=RA13-PA2 |access-date=April 1, 2021}}
Pretty's film work included the Vitagraph serial The Secret Kingdom (1917),
Selected filmography
- One Best Bet (1914)
- The Surprises of an Empty Hotel (1916)
- In Again, Out Again (1917)
- A Woman in Grey (1920)
- Life (1920)
- The Valley of Doubt (1920)
- When the Devil Drives (1922)
- Love in the Dark (1922)
- Stormswept (1923)
- The White Flower (1923)
- Bucking the Barrier (1923)
- Tipped Off (1923)
- Rouged Lips (1923)
- A Fool's Awakening (1924)
- Barriers Burned Away (1925)
- The Girl on the Stairs (1925)
- The Primrose Path (1925)
- Virgin Lips (1928)
- Shipmates Forever (1935)
References
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=Bibliography=
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0696569}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American silent film actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:Actresses from Washington, D.C.
Category:American stage actresses
Category:Film serial actresses
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