Pauline Lord (August , â€" October , ) was an American stage and film
actress.Lord was born in Hanford, California, to Edward Lord and Sara
Foster. When the family moved to San Francisco she attended Holy
Rosary Academy, where she discovered her vocation from participating
in a school play.[citation needed] As a youngster, she used her weekly
allowance to attend Saturday productions at the Alcazar Theatre in San
Francisco and eventually gained small parts in some of those plays.
She graduated from the Jennie Morrow Long College of Voice and
Action.At age , she debuted professionally with the Belasco Stock
Company in the play Are You a Mason? where her first role was that of
a maid. The comedian Nat Goodwin saw her act and invited her to look
him up if she ever got to New York City. Three years later, after the
San Francisco Fire, at the age of , she made the trip, and true to his
words, Goodwin put her to work with several tour engagements.[citation
needed] Fired from her first tour, she returned to New York and acted
in some plays there before returning to California.
actress.Lord was born in Hanford, California, to Edward Lord and Sara
Foster. When the family moved to San Francisco she attended Holy
Rosary Academy, where she discovered her vocation from participating
in a school play.[citation needed] As a youngster, she used her weekly
allowance to attend Saturday productions at the Alcazar Theatre in San
Francisco and eventually gained small parts in some of those plays.
She graduated from the Jennie Morrow Long College of Voice and
Action.At age , she debuted professionally with the Belasco Stock
Company in the play Are You a Mason? where her first role was that of
a maid. The comedian Nat Goodwin saw her act and invited her to look
him up if she ever got to New York City. Three years later, after the
San Francisco Fire, at the age of , she made the trip, and true to his
words, Goodwin put her to work with several tour engagements.[citation
needed] Fired from her first tour, she returned to New York and acted
in some plays there before returning to California.
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