Arline Pretty

Arline Pretty (September 5, 1885 – April 14, 1978) was an American film actress of the silent era.

Life and career

Pretty was born September 5, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her mother was a musician.

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.

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

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

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