 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".