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3 unusual facts about Viola Dana


Metro Pictures

Also in top echelons of importance was popular actress Viola Dana.

Ormer Locklear

Viola Dana was in a relationship with Locklear at the time, and witnessed the crash.

Viola Dana

Dana's success in Collins's Edison features such as Children of Eve (1915) and The Cossack Whip (1916) encouraged producer B. A. Rolfe to offer the couple lucrative contracts with his company, Rolfe Photoplays, which released through Metro Pictures Corporation.


William B. Davidson

He started in films in 1914 with Vitagraph and supported such well known stage and film actresses as Ethel Barrymore, Mabel Taliaferro, Charlotte Walker, Olga Petrova, Viola Dana, June Caprice, Edna Goodrich, and Mae West.


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