Viola Dana, sometimes credited as Viola Flugrath, (born June 26, 1897 in Brooklyn, New York; died July 3, 1987 in Woodland Hills, California) was an Americanfilmactress who was successful during the era of silent movies. June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ...
Born Virginia Flugrath, Dana entered films in 1910 by the time she made her final film appearance in 1929, she had appeared in almost 100 films.-1...
More than 50 years after her retirement from the screen she appeared in the documentary Hollywood (1980), discussing her career as a silent film star during the Hollywood era of the 1920s. In 1987, she was interviewed for the documentary Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow and died later the same year from heart failure, aged 90. Hollywood, also known as Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film was a documentary series produced in 1980 which discussed the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture. ... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ...
Viola Dana has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to motion pictures. It is located at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard. An example of a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, for the film actress Carole Lombard. ...
Viola played the lead in the original production of Poor Little Rich Girl, which led to her being cast in two films.
A star at the Edison studios in the teens, Viola married Edison's finest director, John H. Collins, and the two collaborated on such above-average efforts as Children of Eve (1915) (a surprisingly graphic re-enactment of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire), The Cossack Whip (1916) and Blue Jeans (1917).
Upon the rediscovery of her John Collins-directed Edison films in the mid-1970s, ViolaDana returned to the public eye, regaling TV interviewers and film-festival audiences with her clear-minded, down-to-earth reminiscences of her screen career.
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