Her mother gave different ages for Pauline depending on the requirements of the role, leaving her confused about her actual age, which she only learned in 1998. Curley's first motion picture was Tangled Relations (1912). She played one of the children in a movie which starred Florence Lawrence and Owen Moore. For an audition for The Straight Road in 1914, Pauline was dressed as a boy to land a part as an orphan; a variety of such roles followed, ``cornering the market in orphans and waifs''. In 1915 she played the ingenue Claudia Frawley in Life Without Soul, an adaptation of Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein.
Pauline
Claudia Frawley