The Perils of Pauline is a 1914 American film serial produced by the Pathe Freres studio's American branch, starring Pearl White as an adventurous heiress repeatedly placed in life threatening situations, from runaway hot air balloons to burning buildings, across twenty episodes. Released in weekly installments each ending on an unresolved cliffhanger to draw audiences back the following week, it was an enormous commercial success and is widely credited with popularizing the serial format and the cliffhanger structure in American filmmaking. Only fragments of the original episodes are known to survive, most of what circulates today being drawn from a shorter French reedited version.
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The Perils of Pauline is a 1914 American melodrama film serial produced by William Randolph Hearst and released by the Eclectic Film Company, an American subsidiary of the French group Pathé Frères, shown in bi-weekly installments, featuring Pearl White as the title character, an ambitious young heiress with an independent nature and a desire for adventure.
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The Perils of Pauline is a 1914 American film serial produced by the Pathe Freres studio's American branch, starring Pearl White as an adventurous heiress repeatedly placed in life threatening situations, from runaway hot air balloons to burning buildings, across twenty episodes.
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The Perils of Pauline is a 1914 American melodrama film serial produced by William Randolph Hearst and released by the Eclectic Film Company, an American subsidiary of the French group Pathé Frères, shown in bi-weekly installments, featuring Pearl White as the title character, an ambitious young heiress with an independent nature and a desire for adventure.
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The Perils of Pauline is a 1914 American melodrama film serial produced by William Randolph Hearst and released by the Eclectic Film Company, an American subsidiary of the French group Pathé Frères, shown in bi-weekly installments, featuring Pearl White as the title character, an ambitious young heiress with an independent nature and a desire for adventure.
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A cinema pioneer, Gasnier shepherded the early career of comedian Max Linder, co-directed the enormously successful film serial The Perils of Pauline (1914).
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