Viola Dana

Viola Dana

Birthday: 1897-06-24

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia Viola Dana, Born Virginia Flugrath (June 26, 1897 – July 3, 1987) was an American film actress who was successful during the era of silent films. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Viola Dana has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It is located at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard.

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Salvation Jane
Salvation Jane

An ambitious tenement girl forced into a life of crime has a change of heart when her victim tries t...

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As Man Desires
As Man Desires

The story of a man who was robbed of his greatest love and the South Seas wildflower who found it fo...

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Two Sisters
Two Sisters

Twin sisters, one good and honest and sweet, and the other given to totin' pistols and pulling robbe...

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On Dangerous Paths
On Dangerous Paths

Viola Dana plays Eleanor, a minister's daughter who comes to New York to visit her older sister, a s...

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The Necessary Evil
The Necessary Evil

Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama...

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Life in Hollywood No. 5
Life in Hollywood No. 5

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood....

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Glass Houses
Glass Houses

When a wealthy young lady loses her inheritance, she decides to apply for work in disguise. In prim ...

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That Certain Thing
That Certain Thing

Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and sta...

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Blue Jeans
Blue Jeans

June, a young orphan, is befriended by Perry Bascom when he shares his lunch with her on the road to...

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Home Stuff
Home Stuff

Stranded in the small town of Buckeye Junction young actress Madge Joy crawls upon a load of hay and...

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Winds of Chance
Winds of Chance

A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush....

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The Show of Shows
The Show of Shows

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and ...

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There Are No Villains
There Are No Villains

In San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence again...

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The Portrait in the Attic
The Portrait in the Attic

Viola Dana stars as the child of a widower who marries again, much to her dismay. Despite all attemp...

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The Beauty Prize
The Beauty Prize

Sheer beauty is only way to describe these gorgeous creatures!...

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The Ice Flood
The Ice Flood

Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father,...

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Along Came Ruth
Along Came Ruth

When young Ruth Ambrose ( Viola Dana ) arrives in Action, Maine, she rents a room above the furnitur...

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Children Who Labor
Children Who Labor

The father of a working class family is having trouble finding a job, because the local textile mill...

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The Great Love
The Great Love

Struggling young doctor in a rural community, Dr. Lawrence Tibbits, cures Norma, a circus elephant, ...

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Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood....

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The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement
The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement

An amateur detective's automobile is stolen by a young woman who is determined to elope, leading to ...

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Breakers Ahead
Breakers Ahead

After young Ruth Bowman's mother dies, the child is raised by Agatha Pixley, and in time, the girl f...

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Children of Eve
Children of Eve

An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory ...

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Open All Night
Open All Night

Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabe...

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The Cossack Whip
The Cossack Whip

Feodor Turov, chief of the Russian Czar's secret police, orders his Cossacks to attack a village he ...

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The Girl Without a Soul
The Girl Without a Soul

The story of two young sisters, one a somewhat demure musician who is in love with a scoundrel who's...

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The Butler and the Maid
The Butler and the Maid

Jennie, a coquettish housemaid, flirts with the grocer's delivery boy and thereby incites the jealou...

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Crinoline and Romance
Crinoline and Romance

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Nursery Favorites
Nursery Favorites

Nursery Favourites (1913) is an Edison Kinetophone short featuring performers miming to a pre-record...

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The Innocence of Ruth
The Innocence of Ruth

The young Ruth Travers, left an orphan after the death of her father financially ruined by Mortimer ...

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Hollywood
Hollywood

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...

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Rouged Lips
Rouged Lips

Thrifty orphan Norah MacPherson meets wealthy young James Patterson, who gets her a job as a chorus ...

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The Social Code
The Social Code

Babs Van Buren saves her lover from the electric chair and at the same time extricates her older sis...

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Gladiola
Gladiola

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Revelation
Revelation

Paul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful...

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Riders of the Night
Riders of the Night

Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, ...

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The Silent Lover
The Silent Lover

The dissolute Count Pierre Tornai, having dissipated his fortune in Paris, embezzles embassy funds w...

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The Willow Tree
The Willow Tree

After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend a...

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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

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Bred in Old Kentucky
Bred in Old Kentucky

Katie O'Doone is left a worthless, run-down estate and a thoroughbred race horse. She mortgages the ...

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Seeing's Believing
Seeing's Believing

Because of a storm wealthy Diana Webster and Jimmy Harrison, her Aunt Sue's fiancé, must stay all ni...

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The Fourteenth Lover
The Fourteenth Lover

Vi Marchmont (Viola Dana) is a spoiled rich girl who has thirteen lovers. Her Aunt Letitia (Kate Les...

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Her Fatal Millions
Her Fatal Millions

Mary Bishop, a clerk in a jewelry store, finds out that her ex-boyfriend Fred Garrison, who left tow...

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June Madness
June Madness

Clytie Whitmore (Viola Dana) finally consents to marry Cadbury Todd (Gerald Pring), but while walkin...

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In Search of a Thrill
In Search of a Thrill

After she inherits a fortune, Ann Clemance travels to Paris to indulge herself in frivolity. She mee...

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Kosher Kitty Kelly
Kosher Kitty Kelly

The story is a variation on the Abie's Irish Rose theme, detailing the marriage between an Irish Cat...

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False Evidence
False Evidence

Promised in marriage to wealthy Lot Gordon , Scottish lassie Madelon MacTavish prefers Lot's poor re...

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Puppets of Fate
Puppets of Fate

Gabriel Palombra, a Venetian Punchinello Street show operator decides to move to America leaving his...

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The Only Road
The Only Road

Tomboy Nita, a vegetable seller in a small Californian town, believes herself to be the daughter of ...

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Opportunity
Opportunity

When Mary’s father refuses to let her attend a prize fight because he thinks it’s undignified for a ...

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Naughty Nanette
Naughty Nanette

The Jazz Age rages in this comedy film starring Viola Dana as the madcap title character madly dashi...

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One Splendid Hour
One Splendid Hour

While on a "slumming" excursion, debutante Bobbie Walsh (Viola Dana) falls in love with tenement-dis...

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Satan Junior
Satan Junior

Famous playwright Paul Worden decamps to a country bungalow to work on a new play, rehearsing with h...

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Flower of the Dusk
Flower of the Dusk

Blind Ambrose North is tormented by the suspicion that his wife Constance committed suicide when the...

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The Chorus Girl's Romance
The Chorus Girl's Romance

When, on a prank, shimmy dancer Marcia Meadows visits bookworm Horace Tarbox in his Yale dormitory, ...

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Merton of the Movies
Merton of the Movies

A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out. This film is lo...

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A Weaver of Dreams
A Weaver of Dreams

Unrequited love rules the day as both wealthy Judith Sylvester and her invalid aunt pine for men who...

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Forty Winks
Forty Winks

The Butterworth family attorney Gaspar Le Sage, and a suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth, pe...

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Cohen's Luck
Cohen's Luck

A winning lottery ticket and the theft of half of it leads to both joy and a lot of trouble for form...

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Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
Hollywood on Parade No. B-4

Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with ...

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Threads of Fate
Threads of Fate

Abandoned as an infant on a stranger’s doorstep by her faithless mother, Marcella, Dorothea is taken...

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Life's Darn Funny
Life's Darn Funny

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Bigger Than Barnum's
Bigger Than Barnum's

Melodrama of circus tightrope troupe....

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Love in the Dark
Love in the Dark

"I hope people see me as an artist, not a blind artist." Tou suffered a severe eye injury in an acc...

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Don't Doubt Your Husband
Don't Doubt Your Husband

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The Heart Bandit
The Heart Bandit

A kindly old woman named Mrs. Rand takes in wayward girl and petty crook Molly O'Hara, known as "Ang...

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Aladdin's Other Lamp
Aladdin's Other Lamp

Aladdin's Other Lamp is a 1917 American silent fantasy-comedy film directed by John H. Collins....

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The Gold Cure
The Gold Cure

Annice Paisch and her friend, Edna Lawson, almost despair of finding husbands in their dull hometown...

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God's Law and Man's
God's Law and Man's

Dr. Claude Drummond, a young English doctor in India, saves Ameia, a young girl, from being sacrific...

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Lady Barnacle
Lady Barnacle

Krishna Dhwaj, the son of the Maharajah of Rhamput, is in love with Lakshima, the daughter of the Ma...

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The Flower of No Man's Land
The Flower of No Man's Land

Echo, the orphaned "flower of no man's land," has been raised by an Indian foster father, Kahoma. Th...

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The Gates of Eden
The Gates of Eden

Evelyn and her boyfriend William Bard are members of a small Shaker community. They rock the communi...

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Rosie O'Grady
Rosie O'Grady

Rosie O'Grady is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by John H. Collins....

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The Winding Trail
The Winding Trail

To avenge her sister's disgrace and death, Audrey Graham leaves her theatrical engagements in New Yo...

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The Light of Happiness
The Light of Happiness

Tangletop, is the daughter of the town drunk with her tattered clothes and unkempt hair has been mad...

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Wild Oats Lane
Wild Oats Lane

After leaving Sing Sing for serving time for theft, The Boy drifts into a small Pennsylvania town an...

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They Like 'Em Rough
They Like 'Em Rough

Katherine Trowbridge, a rebellious young orphan, lives with her aunt and uncle, the Curtises, who de...

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Please Get Married
Please Get Married

Muriel Ashley is engaged to Ferdie Walton. Ferdie's father opposes the marriage; Muriel's parents fa...

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The Off-Shore Pirate
The Off-Shore Pirate

Wealthy society girl Ardita Farnam is held up in her roadster by two thugs and is rescued by Nevkova...

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The Microbe
The Microbe

Happy O'Brien, called "The Microbe," or "Mike" for short, a female street urchin who sells newspaper...

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The Match-Breaker
The Match-Breaker

Jane Morgan, to avoid marrying family lawyer Richard Van Loytor, takes her maid, Murray, and leaves ...

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Dangerous to Men
Dangerous to Men

When noted scientist John Vandam dies in the Orient, he leaves the guardianship of his eighteen-year...

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Some Bride
Some Bride

Young bride Patricia Morley's flirtatious ways at a summer resort keep her husband Henry in a state ...

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Cinderella's Twin
Cinderella's Twin

Connie McGill, a scullery maid at the Valentines, dreams of better things. One day, while serving, s...

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The Parisian Tigress
The Parisian Tigress

The invalid Count de Suchet, nearing death, tells his friend, artist Henri Dutray, about the tragic ...

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