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Additions and changes since this site went live in June 2002

August 2007

Added a link to a newsreel clip of Polly to the home page. It's from an Australian newsreel when she was on tour with the stage version of Madame X.

July 2007

Added the Photoplay review of Sapho ; added a pictures to The Slave Market, On Trial, One Week of life and Paid in Full (thanks to Derek Boothroyd for the last two). Also added some pictures to the Pictures Page--a flyer for The Crimson Hour, a picture of Polly with Will Rogers, and a link to a picture of the Drecoll dress on the cover of Motion Picture magazine (because i couldn't figure out how to make a thumbnail out of a PDF). Thanks to Frederica for the scan. Doctor Macro has a new address, and just found that he has several Pauline Frederick scans, mostly in the annex. I added to the home page, since i don't have time right now to add the individual stills to to the pages for their associated films.

April 2007

John Moon and his wife found a nifty poster from Her Honor the Governor used as a spacer in a frame. It was cropped to fit, but since it hasn't seen light in all these years, the color is still vivid. Thanks for sharing! Bruce Calvert found a new site for his The Silent Film Still Archive, so i updated links from the filmography page and the pages for Audrey, Bella Donna, Sapho, Sleeping Fires, The Woman in the Case, The World's Great Snare, and Zaza. Also updated video links for Smouldering Fires, since Grapevine Video is back in business.

December 2006

Added comments about the Sunrise Silents review of Devil's Island.

November 2006

Added a link to The Valentino Forever Pauline Frederick House page on the addresses page. Also added links for the Sunrise Silents DVD-Rs to the pages for Smouldering Fires and Devil's Island.

October 2006

Added the front and back of the dustjacket to The Mistress of Shenstone. Thanks for the birthday present, Gail!

April 2006

Thanks to William Drew for sending me a 1923 Oakland Tribune article of Polly giving her views on opportunities for women. Also added links to photos in the Sayre Collection at the University of Washington to the Filmography to the pages for the individual films Woman in Room 13, Woman on the Index, and Let Not Man Put Asunder

December 2005

Added links to advertising lantern slides in the Cleveland Public Library collection to the Filmography to the pages for the individual films Her Honor the Governor, One Week of Life,The Paliser Case, The Peace of Roaring River, The Woman in Room 13, and Bonds of Love (thanks Derek!).

October 2005

Added pictures from the photoplay novel of The Mistress of Shenstone. Thanks to Primrose Lockwood for these photos. Added the picture of Frederick's house to the page of addresses. Fixed Gilda's Blue Book link on the Home page.

September 2005

Added the credits in the Filmography to the pages for the individual films and changed some linking details. Added another still for Smouldering Fires (thanks Derek!). Added a page of addresses as well, and accordingly changed some information in the biographical essay..

March 2005

On the home page, added a link for Polly's entry in The Stars of the Photoplay. Also added a link to lantern sides for The Bonds of Love and added the link to the Filmography.

February 2005

Fixed link on home page to The Silent Film Still Archive. Added two still photos for Evidence. with links from the filmography. Also added a link on the home page to Polly's page in The Blue Book of the Screen (1923) Thanks to David B. Pearson and Graceann Maciolek for adding this fun resource to Silent-movies.org

Also added picture to the Pictures Page a scan of Frederic on the cover of Theatre magazine in costume for the stage play Joseph and His Brothers. Thanks to Cleo in Luxembourg for this scan.

December 2004

The Social Register is now available on video. Added info to the video page and comments to the filmography.

July 2004

Added scans of sheet music for the song Towsee Mongolay from her play Innocent to the Picture Gallery. And thanks to Cleo in Luxembourg, a nice picture of Frederick with a bowler and riding crop, which i put on the same page.

June 2004

The Mistress of Shenstone has been found! An edited copy is located at the Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona. I updated the individual page for the film and updated the Filmography. Thanks to Mariona Bruzzo, Head of film archive, for providing this information, and to Josep Calle for providing the great frame grab.

April 2004

Completely revamped the Pictures page.. Added lots of portraits, a couple programs, news articles, and some unknown stills. Also added individual stills for The Paliser Case (7 of them!), The Glory of Clementina, Madame X (5, and deleted Silent Lady's link to one of the same pictures), Smouldering Fires, Two Kinds of Women, Tosca, Ramona, and a program for Sold, and updated links on the Filmography.

March 2004

Corrected the links to the Silent Film Still Archives, where many stills of Famous Players pictures live. Also added link to a review of Devil's Island to the Filmography. Watch this space! Soon i'll be posting lots more Frederick pictures.

January 2004

Added a scan of a program for Frederick's stage production Innocent to the Pictures page. Also added a lovely picture of Frederick courtesy of David Menefee. Thanks!

Added a link to Mark Goffee's Pauline Frederic Postcard page . Also removed Grapevine Video links from the video page and removed the link to The Silents Majority from the home page.

July 2003

Added viewing comments for Three Woman

June 2003

Added a the 1918 article The Story of My Life. from Motion Picture Magazine Thanks to Bruce Calvert for this article (and for typing it, too!)

May 2003

Added a review for Evidence from Photoplay. Thanks to Andre Soares for this review!

January 2003

Added a link to the AFI Catalog

Added picture of Frederic in Sapho courtesy of David Menefee

December 2002

Added brief viewing comments to filmography on Wayward and My Marriage

October 2002

Added poster images to A Slave of Vanity, Out of the Shadow and Roads of Destiny (thanks to David Menefee)

August 2002

Added link to pics of her home on Silents are Golden

July 2002 addendum

Oops, found another stashed review, this time the Harrison's Reports pan of The Sting of the Lash.

July 2002

Added a page for assorted pictures after finding a stash from Randy Bigham that i had misplaced (thanks Randy!)

Added review forDouble Crossed and a notice about the Frederick/Mack marriage after filming Nannette of the Wild(thanks Randy!)

Added link on homepage to Gilda's Blue Book of the Screen

Added note on 8mm prints to Devil's Island, and on filmography entry for the film


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Last revised, July 4, 2007