Polly Chase

born: 08 April 1916 Los Angeles, California, United States of America

died: 28 November 1957 Riverside County, California, United States of America (cirrhosis of the liver, age 41)

American actress, the first of two daughters born to BeBe and Charley Chase and is the niece of James Parrott.  She was nicknamed 'Polly' by her parents. According to Brian Anthony & Andy Edmonds' book "Smile When The Raindrops Fall", in 1935, at the age of 19, she became the object of desire from Stan Laurel.  Her father, Charley, was less than pleased and warned Laurel to keep his distance from her.  Stan ignored the warning and subsequently received a punch in his face by Charley!

Real name: Pauline May Parrott

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography; plus all films with Charley Chase.

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1935 Okay Toots! Office switchboard operator [*disputed] 1935 Poker At Eight Nightclub patron on dancefloor 1935 The Four Star Boarder Greeting dock extra   1935 Nurse To You! Receptionist nurse 1935 Manhattan Monkey Business Pedestrian/Diner 1935 Public Ghost #1 Secretary 1936 The Count Takes The Count Waitress 1936 Vamp Till Ready Party guest 1936 At Sea Ashore [?] 1936 Hill-Tillies Reporter 1936 Neighborhood House [?]   1936 Kelly The Second [?] 1936 Our Relations Pirate's club patron   1937 Nobody's Baby [?] ▼ NON-HAL ROACH FILMS 1937 From Bad To Worse Woman on train   1937 The Big Squirt Girl   1938 A Nag In The Bag Betty, the carhop   Acknowledgements: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLNX-CJT https://archive.org/stream/14thcensusofpopu106unit#page/n572/mode/1up (1920 Census, line 35) https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-29940-23707-22?cc=1804002 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-29949-12125-11?cc=1804002 Smile When The Raindrops Fall by Brian Anthony & Andy Edmonds (book) Lou Sabini, James Neibaur (information) Jesse Brisson (identification in Poker At Eight, Nurse To You!, Manhattan Monkey Business, At Sea Ashore, Nobody's Baby; disputes credit for Okay Toots!) This page was last updated on: 24 September 2024