Charlotte Pierce

Charlotte Elaine Pierce was born in Girard, Illinois,^[1] and raised in Salina, Kansas,^[2] the daughter of Schuyler Rensselaer Pierce and Faye Ransom Pierce. Her father was an engineer involved in construction.^[3][4]

Pierce was a dancer^[5] and dance teacher as a young woman.^[6] She was helped into movies by actress Cathrine Curtis^[1] and by screenwriter Elinor Glyn.^[7]

Pierce appeared in the silent films beginning in her teen years, as "an ingenue of the Pickford type",^[8] including roles in Peaceful Valley (1921),^[9] The Man of the Forest (1921),^[7] The Barnstormer (1922),^[10] Gas, Oil and Water (1922),^[11] The Woman He Married (1922),^[2] Colleen of the Pines (1922),^[12] A Tailor-Made Man (1922),^[5] The Veiled Woman (1922), The Lavender Bath Lady (1922), The Super-Sex (1922),^[13] Thru the Flames (1923), The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923), Sky's the Limit (1925), The Wildcat (1925),^[14] Queen of Spades (1925), West of Mojave (1925), The Sheep Trail (1926), and The Fighting Gob (1926).^[15]

Charlotte Pierce married actor and musician William Virgil Mays in 1922.^[5][16] They divorced in 1923.^[17] In 1926,^[18] she married a second time, to Salvino J. "Solly" Baiano, a talent scout, casting director, violinist, and tennis champion.^[19] They had a daughter, Lonnie, and a son, Michael. Both of their children acted in films.^[20] Michael Baiano married singer Jaye P. Morgan in 1954.^[21] Charlotte Pierce Baiano was widowed when Solly Baiano died in 1992,^[22] and she died in Los Angeles, November 23, 1996, aged 92 years. Her grave is with her husband's, in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

• The Man of the Forest (1921)
• The Veiled Woman (1922)
• The Woman He Married (1922)
• A Tailor-Made Man (1922)
• The Barnstormer (1922)
• Gas, Oil and Water (1922)
• The Super-Sex (1922)
• Colleen of the Pines (1922)
• The Lavender Bath Lady (1922)
• The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923)
• West of Mojave (1925)