Roberta Paine

Biography

Roberta Paine stepped before the cameras only once, but she did it at the dawn of feature-length filmmaking: in 1915 she appeared in “Prohibition,” a now-lost social-drama that rode the temperance wave sweeping the nation. No studio records, no later interviews—just that single credit—yet her name survives as a ghost-light from cinema’s infancy, flickering in century-old title cards.