Viola Dana
Acting
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.
Born: June 24, 1897
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Hollywood
A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.
The Cossack Whip
Feodor Turov, chief of the Russian Czar's secret police, orders his Cossacks to attack a village he believes to be infested with rebels. The Cossacks attack the village and massacre almost everyone, and the young Katerina is whipped to death. Before escaping to England, her sister Darya swears to avenge her sister's death. Years later--now one of the world's most famous prima ballerinas--she returns to Russia. Turov falls in love with her and manages to secure a meeting. She coyly asks him to take her to see a prison first. As it turns out, what he has planned for her is nothing compared to what she has planned for him.
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.
Open All Night
Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to the bicycle races and stay out all night. Then she takes Therese there and introduces her to manly Petit Mathieu, one of the racers (Maurice B. Flynn). Since he has just quarreled with his sweetheart, Lea (Jetta Goudal), he is glad to have Therese's attention and offers to run away with her after he wins the six-day race. Lea, meanwhile, is spending her time with Edmond. Therese eventually decides she doesn't care for brutes like Mathieu, and Edmond gains a temper and wins his wife back. Lea and Mathieu are reunited, while Isabelle goes back to helping her own alcoholic sweetheart, Igor (Raymond Griffith), break into the movies.
Riders of the Night
Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, Riders of the Night was set in Kentucky hill country. Collins' wifeViola Dana stars as Sally Castleton, a country girl in love with a brooding and idealistic aristocrat. When her sweetheart joins a night-riding vigilante organization, Sally is temporarily dismayed but resolves to hide the man from the authorities.
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 no good for her, and the other a wild, free spirit who is the object of a shy young carpenter's affections.
That Certain Thing
Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.
A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Children of Eve
An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not realizing she has a significant connection to the cold-hearted factory owner.
Filmography
as Self
as Self
as Performer in 'The Pirate,' 'Meet My Sister' & 'Ladies of the Ensemble' Numbers
as Jean / Jane
as Molly Kelly
as Nanette Pearson
as Scadsza
as Kitty Kelly
as Juanita Calles
as Minette Bunker
as Marie, the Girl
as Rouletta Kirby
as Shirley Holmes
as Eleanor Butterworth
as Pandora La Croix
as Sally 'Flips' Montague
as Thérèse Duverne
as Joline Hofer
as Helen Blake
as Molly O'Hara
as Ann Clemance
as Babs Van Buren
as Norah MacPherson
as Viola Dana
as Miss Emmy Lou
as Mary Duffy
as Katherine Trowbridge
as Diana Webster
as Joy Duval
as Vi Marchmont
as Rosa Moreland
as Jane Morgan
as Zoe Robert
as Madge Joy
as Ardita Farnam
as Connie McGill
as Marcia Meadows
as Elisa
as O-Riu
as Muriel Ashley
as Happy O'Brien, The Microbe
as Patricia Morley
as Madelon MacTavish
as Jeanne
as Diana Ardway
as Annice Paisch
as Sally Castleton
as Barbara North
as Nita
as Ruth Bowman
as Judith Sylvester
as Audrey Graham
as June
as Unity Beaumont / Priscilla Beaumont
as Patricia Smith
as Lakshima
as Ameia
as Jane Anderson
as Rosie O'Grady
as Dorothea
as Darya Orlinsky
as Eve / Evelyn
as Tangletop
as Echo
as Ruth Travers
as Fifty-Fifty Mamie
as Eleanor Thurston