Viola Dana (1897 - 1987)

American film actress, started as a child star and retired in 1929.

* June 26, 1897 Brooklyn, New York, USA
 as Virginia Flugrath
 July 3, 1987 Woodland Hills, California, USA



Vintage magazines

Mon Ciné, nr. 43, 14 December 1922
Picture Play Magazine, January 1923
Picture Play Magazine, January 1923

Picture Play Magazine, March 1923
Picture Play Magazine, April 1923
Mon Ciné, nr. 113, 17 April 1924

Photoplay, January 1928
Photoplay, January 1928
Photoplay, February 1928

Photoplay, September 1928
Photoplay, December 1929
Photoplay, December 1930

Le film complet, nr. 826, 8-4 1930
Photoplay, January 1931
Photoplay, July 1932


Books with substantial mentioning of Viola Dana

Anthony Slide Silent Players Anthony Slide
Silent Players, A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses
Lexington, Ky, 2002

Charles Donald Fox and Milton L. Silver (eds.) Who's Who on the Screen Charles Donald Fox and Milton L. Silver (eds.)
Who's Who on the Screen
New York City, 1920

Books with an entry on Viola Dana

Denise Lowe An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895 - 1930 Denise Lowe
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895 - 1930
New York, London, Oxford, 2005

Roy Liebman Silent Film Performers Roy Liebman
Silent Film Performers, An Annotated Bibliography of Published, Unpublished and Archival Sources for over 350 Actors and Actresses
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1996

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1988, A Survey of the Films of 1987
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988
p. 482 info

Charles Donald Fox Mirrors of Hollywood Charles Donald Fox
Mirrors of Hollywood, with brief biographies of favorite film folk
New York, 1925

Books with photograph(s) of Viola Dana

John Richard Finch and Paul Elby Close-Ups John Richard Finch and Paul Elby
Close-Ups, From the Golden Age of the Silent Cinema
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1978