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A male stunt double wearing a wig performed the majority of the more dangerous stunts in White's later films.<ref name="bishop" /> The public was largely unaware that White and other actors used stunt doubles, but in August 1922, the truth was revealed.<ref name="golden" /> During the filming of White's final serial ''Plunder'', John Stevenson, an actor who was doubling for White, was supposed to leap from the top of a bus on 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue onto an elevated girder. He missed the girder and struck his head. Stevenson died of a fractured skull.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19220811&id=QrwhAAAAIBAJ&pg=5859,1986383|title=Film Actor Killed in Leap|date=August 11, 1922|work=Reading Eagle|page=6|access-date=April 8, 2014}}</ref> After the filming of ''Plunder'' was complete, White traveled to Europe for another vacation.
By 1919, White had grown tired of film serials and signed with [[Fox Film Corporation]] with the ambition to appear in dramatic roles, including [[J. Searle Dawley]]'s [[A Virgin Paradise']], filmed near [[Harrington Sound]] in the British [[Imperial fortress]] [[British Overseas Territory|colony]] of [[Bermuda]], 640 miles off [[North Carolina]] where Searle had previously filmed [[The Relief of Lucknow (film)|The Relief of Lucknow]] and [[For Valour (1912 film)|For Valour]] in 1912.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=HUMANOPHONE COMPANY. "FOR VALOUR". Beautiful Bermuda Film |date=1913-05-15 |work=[[The Royal Gazette (Bermuda)|The Royal Gazette]] |location=City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda |page=2 |quote=This evening the Humanophone Company offer as the central attraction of their moving picture exhibition at the Colonial Opera House the Edison, Bermuda film "For Valour," made while Mr. Dawley and his company were at work last year at the Villa Montecello, Flatts. The story concerns the loves of a pretty Bermuda maiden who finds herself unable to choose between two representatives of the British Army until they are on the eve of departure for the South African War. Her choice falls upon one who eventually turns out to be a mean coward. But the other undertakes to bring him back to her and fulfils the self-imposed task although the coward has won a medal for an act which his rival performed. Eventually the truth, becomes known, and the Bermuda beauty rectifies her mistake. It is a pleasing picture and, the local setting lends it a peculiar interest for Bermudians. There was a large attendance of the lovers of good moving pictures at the Town Hall, St. George's on Monday night to see the splendid exhibition given by the Humanophone Company. There are a large number of young boys and girls who regularly attend the Monday night shows and Master Arthur said on Monday night' that Mr. Kaplan might put a real funny one in for their benefit. The Humanphone Co's. pictures are of a very high class, but a little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men. Miss Silverstone delighted the audience With her performance at the piano and the people of St. George's appreciate her playing more and more as the season advances.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=RELIEF OF LUCKNOW: Dinna Ye Hear It? |date=1912-08-13 |work=The Royal Gazette |location=City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda |quote=it was created by the Edison artistes who made their headquarters last spring at Villa Monticello, Flatts.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=HUMANOPHONE COMPANY. Famous Historic Picture Shown-Relief of Lucknow|date=1912-08-17 |work=[[The Royal Gazette (Bermuda)|The Royal Gazette]] |location=City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda |quote=To Bermudians this picture has peculiar interest ; for it was at Flatts while Mr. Dawley and his company were there that they produced this most remarkable picture.<br>The Highlanders, Sepoys, Artillery-men &c. who appear in the scene are men of The Queen's Regiment whose services were secured for the occasion.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzpmPHaC5A4 |title=RELIEF OF LUCKNOW (Indian Mutiny) - A mute film from The Tornos Studio's Collection |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |website=Youtube: tornosindia |publisher=CREDITS FOR THIS VIDEO: The Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Film Institute, The Imperial War Museum and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. (UK) |access-date=2022-05-01 |quote=CONTEXT: The Relief of Lucknow was produced by the Edison Company for the British market. Around 1911, Edison began to make films on specifically European themes to increase sales in Britain. The company also started sending actors and personnel to shoot films in outdoor locations, away from its New Jersey studio (Musser 1995, 49). Serle J. Dawley, director of The Relief, led several of these trips. In the year that he directed The Relief, Dawley shot The Charge of the Light Brigade in Cheyenne, Wyoming, adapting Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem to depict the Battle of Balaclava as a tale of British loyalty and sacrifice. The Relief was shot in Bermuda, which offered the advantages of tropical scenery and the presence of the 2nd Battalion of the "Queen's Own" Regiment, stationed on site}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=HUUMANOPHONE COMPANY. "FOR VALOUR". Beautiful Bermuda Film |date=1913-05-15 |work=The Royal Gazette |location=City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda |page=2 |quote=This evening the Humanophone Company offer as the central attraction of their moving picture exhibition at the Colonial Opera House the Edison, Bermuda film "For Valour," made while Mr. Dawley and his company were at work last year at the Villa Montecello, Flatts. The story concerns the loves of a pretty Bermuda maiden who finds herself unable to choose between two representatives of the British Army until they are on the eve of departure for the South African War. Her choice falls upon one who eventually turns out to be a mean coward. But the other undertakes to bring him back to her and fulfils the self-imposed task although the coward has won a medal for an act which his rival performed. Eventually the truth, becomes known, and the Bermuda beauty rectifies her mistake. It is a pleasing picture and, the local setting lends it a peculiar interest for Bermudians. There was a large attendance of the lovers of good moving pictures at the Town Hall, St. George's on Monday night to see the splendid exhibition given by the Humanophone Company. There are a large number of young boys and girls who regularly attend the Monday night shows and Master Arthur said on Monday night' that Mr. Kaplan might put a real funny one in for their benefit. The Humanphone Co's. pictures are of a very high class, but a little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men. Miss Silverstone delighted the audience With her performance at the piano and the people of St. George's appreciate her playing more and more as the season advances.}}</ref> Animals, including monkeys and lions, were imported for the production. On 21 December, 1920, Dawley received a cable at 8:25 AM at the [[Hamilton Princess & Beach Club|Princess Hotel]] urging that White, who had previously visited Bermuda in 1913, leave Bermuda that day for New York aboard the [[RMS Fort Victoria]]. As the ship had already departed from [[Hamilton, Bermuda|the City of Hamilton]], she was flown by a seaplane of the Bermuda and West Atlantic Aviation Company from the Princess Hotel to board the ship at Murray's Anchorage before it passed through Hurd's channel onto the open Atlantic Ocean. White was photographed boarding the seaplane by the proprietors of the Bermuda and West Atlantic Aviation Company, Major Henry Hamilton "Hal" Kitchener (the son of Lieutenant-General Sir [[Walter Kitchener|Frederick Walter Kitchener]]) and Major Harold Hemming.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=1920-12-09 |title=Monkey Folk Here; Nine Lions Coming |page=1 |work=The Royal Gazette |location=City of Hamilton, Pembroke, Bermuda |quote=}}</ref>. Over the next two years, White appeared in 10 drama films for Fox but her popularity had begun to wane.<ref name=bishop />
== Later years ==
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