Silent Movie Star Pearl White’s Childhood in Missouri

Pearl White, the Queen of the Serials, who spent much of her movie career tied to railroad tracks, hanging off cliffs and escaping burning buildings, spent her childhood an impoverished waif in rural Green Ridge, Missouri, playing imaginative games and being a bad influence on other children. This episode includes funny stories from Pearl’s childhood as seen in her autobiography, Just Me, which was published in 1919.

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