Viola Dana

Viola Dana (born June 26, 1897 in Brooklyn , New York , † July 3, 1987 in Woodland Hills , California , born Virginia Flugrath , also known as Viola Flugrath ) was an American silent film actress.

Life

Dana was the middle of three sisters. Her sisters Edna Flugrath and Shirley Mason also worked as actresses. Viola Dana made her debut in the 1910 Charles Dickens film adaptation of A Christmas Carol . She played her first leading role in Molly the Drummer Boy in 1914 . Dana has appeared in over 100 films, preferably comedies. She didn't make the leap from silent to sound film . She took her last film role in 1929 before retiring from the film business. Her last appearance in front of a camera was in a television documentary about Buster Keaton shortly before her death in 1987. Viola Dana was married twice. Both marriages ended in divorce.

A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard commemorates her achievements as an actress .

Filmography (selection)

1910: A Christmas Carol
1915: Gladiola
1915: Children of Eve
1915: The House of the Lost Court
1916: The Light of Happiness (film lost)
1916: The Gates of Eden (film lost)
1916: The Flower of No Man's Land (film lost)
1917: Aladdin's Other Lamp
1917: In the kingdom of the white elephant ( God's Law and Man's , film lost)
1917: Teeaners love hot ( blue jeans )
1917: The girl with no heart ( The Girl Without a Soul )
1918: Midnight Rider ( Riders of the Night )
1918: Breakers Ahead
1918: A Weaver of Dreams
1918: The Flower of the Dusk
1918: The Only Road
1919: The Parisian Tigress
1919: Satan Junior
1920: Blackmail
1920: Miss Liliput, the travel toy ( The Willow Tree )
1920: The Dancer 's Revenge ( Cinderella's Twin , film lost)

1920: Dangerous to Men

1921: The Match-Breaker (film lost)

1921: Puppets of Fate

1921: There Are No Villains

1921: The Off-Shore Pirate

1922: Glass Houses

1922: June Madness

1922: The Fourteenth Lover

1922: The Five Dollar Baby

1922: Love in the Dark

1922: Seeing's Believing

1923: A Noise in Newboro

1923: Crinoline and Romance

1923: The Social Code

1923: In Search of a Thrill

1924: The Beauty Prize

1924: Merton of the Movies

1924: Open All Night

1924: Revelation

1924: Along Came Ruth (film lost)

1925: Getting married is not child's play ( Forty Wings )

1925: Winds of Chance

1926: Bred in Old Kentucky

1926: The Ice Flood

1926: Wild Oats Lane

1927: Home Struck

1927: Salvation Jane

1927: Naughty Nanette

1928: That Certain Thing

1929: The Show of Shows

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personal data
SURNAME	Dana, viola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Flugrath, viola; Flugrath, Virginia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American silent film actress
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH	3rd July 1987
Place of death	Woodland Hills , California