Biography
Although completely forgotten today, Joseph A. Golden was an important director in the earliest days of filmmaking and has been credited with discovering serial queen
Pearl White. The film was The Girl From Arizona, a one-reel Western melodrama produced by Pathé in the early 1910s and co-starring White with handsome
Crane Wilbur. The latter was to be White's leading man in her breakthrough film, the seminal 1914 serial
The Perils of Pauline. That milestone, however, was directed jointly by Louis Gasnier and Donald McKenzie, though Golden has been credited with co-directing White's fourth serial,
The Romance of Elaine (1915). Returning to the genre at least twice, Golden went on to helm
The Great Gamble (1915), starring
Pearl White's male counterpart Charles Hutchison, and the World War I serial
Wolves of Kultur (1918). Golden's screen career ended in 1920. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide