Viola Dana plays both of the title characters in Rayart's Two Sisters. One of the heroines is a daring female bandit, while...
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1929
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While on a "slumming" excursion, debutante Bobbie Walsh (Viola Dana) falls in love with tenement-district doctor Thornton...
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Bobbie Walsh
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1929
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Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all...
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1929
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Molly Kelly
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1928
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Chorus girl Barbara Page (Viola Dana) gives up the footlights when she becomes the wife of bank clerk Dick Cobb (Tom Gallery...
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Barbara Page
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1927
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Nanette Pearson
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1927
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Though its title evokes memories of that old theatrical chestnut Salvation Nell, FBO's Salvation Jane starts out as a "crook"...
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Salvation Jane
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1927
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1927
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Ralph Ince both directed and co-starred in FBO's Bigger Than Barnum. The story focuses on the Blandins, a family of circus...
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Juanita Calels
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1926
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A robust potboiler from Universal, The Ice Flood stars Kenneth Harlan as Jack De Quincey, a handsome youth returning from...
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Marie O'Neill
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1926
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Filmgoers of the silent era liked to see crooks reform -- it was a popular theme in motion pictures. This drama, adapted from...
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The Girl/Marie
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1926
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Based on the musical comedy of the same name, Kosher Kitty Kelly stars Viola Dana in the title role. The story is a variation...
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Kitty Kelly
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1926
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So far as his fans were concerned, Milton Sills could have played a ballerina and still cashed in at the box office. In this...
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1926
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Eleanor Butterworth
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1925
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Frank Lloyd, who directed The Sea Beast, tried to create another epic with this Rex Beach tale of the 1897 gold rush. The...
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Rouletta Kirby
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1925
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1925
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Pandora La Croix
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1925
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Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama -- not exactly the forte of either of these stars. Charming but...
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Shirley Holmes
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1925
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Viola Dana plays Ruth Ambrose, a citified interior decorator who expands her business to the country. The locals don't quite...
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Ruth Ambrose
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1924
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This first of three film versions of the George S. Kaufman/Marc Connelly stage comedy Merton of the Movies stars...
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Sally Montague, "Flips"
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1924
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Although Milton Sills was a leading man in his own right, he also supported many female stars of the silent era. In this...
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Molly O'Hara
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1924
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After becoming an unwed mother, Joline Hofer (Viola Dana) is cast out of her father's house. After placing her baby in a...
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Joline Hofer
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1924
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Therese Duveme
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1924
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There wasn't much story to this lightweight romance starring Viola Dana. Dana plays Connie DuBois, a manicurist who leaves...
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1924
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After she inherits a fortune, Ann Clemance (Viola Dana) travels to Paris to indulge herself in frivolity. She meets up with...
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Ann Clemance
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1923
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This light comedy suited Viola Dana quite well. She plays Mary Bishop, a small town girl whose sweetheart, Fred Garrison...
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Mary Bishop
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1923
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Although Viola Dana was primarily a light comedian, she performed capably in this courtroom drama. The capricious Babs Van...
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Babs Van Buren
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1923
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Viola Dana stars in this rags-to-riches comedy-drama. She plays Martha Mason, who is such an underdog in her little home town...
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Martha Mason
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1923
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In this comedy romance, Claude Gillingwater plays a Southern Colonel who has the impossible task of keeping Viola Dana away...
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Emmy Lou Wimbleton
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1923
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The title to this harmless light comedy was something of a tease -- not once does Tom Moore get to kiss the rouged lips of...
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Norah MacPherson
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1923
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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This frivolous light comedy was perfect material for the lively Viola Dana. Dana plays Clytie Whitmore, who is about to be...
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1922
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Vi Marchmont
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1922
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Sometimes it seemed like Viola Dana played orphans almost as much as Mary Pickford did, and she stars as one again for this...
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1922
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Ruth
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1922
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Although much ado was made over modern, independent women in the 1920s, there was also a backlash -- women had only just...
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1922
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This was a pleasant, though not particularly exciting vehicle for light comedienne Viola Dana. Circumstances force wealthy...
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1922
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Viola Dana, usually known for her flapper roles in light comedies, takes a turn for the dramatic here. Gabriel Palombra...
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1921
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This wasn't the first time that Viola Dana starred in a picture based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. A Chorus Girl's...
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Ardita Farnam
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1921
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Viola Dana plays a secret agent in this fluffy comedy-drama. Detective Flint (DeWitt Jennings) gives Rosa Moreland (Dana) an...
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1921
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Madge Joy (Viola Dana) is an actress with a cheap theatrical troupe, but she loses her job when a stage-struck young girl...
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Madge Joy
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1921
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Zoe Roberts (Viola Dana) is an aspiring violinist. Living in the same Greenwich Village boarding house is aspiring artist...
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Zoe Robert
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1921
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1920
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All Metro Studios had to do back in 1920 was put the name Viola Dana on a movie marquee, and the red ink miraculously turned...
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1920
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When a musical comedy goes to New Haven for a try-out before hitting Broadway, actress Marcia Meadows (Viola Dana) stumbles...
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1920
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Magazine stories frequently were fodder for film stories in the 1910s, and that's the case with this programmer. This time...
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1919
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This film marked a turn in the life and career of Viola Dana. Its scenario was being prepared by her husband, director...
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1919
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Viola Dana was Metro Pictures' top star when False Evidence came out in 1919. Promised in marriage to wealthy Lot Gordon...
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1919
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Viola Dana stars in this Metro light comedy as the flirtatious Patricia, who has just married the jealous Henry Morley...
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Director
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1919
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Directed by the unjustly forgotten John H. Collins, Opportunity starred Collins' wife Viola Dana as Mary Willard, a physical...
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Mary Willard
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1918
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Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, Riders of the Night was...
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1918
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For years, it was a "given" that no director of merit ever emerged from the old Edison studios. This assertion was disproved...
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1917
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1917
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Viola Dana, Metro Studios' favorite leading lady, stars in A Girl Without a Soul. Dana essays a dual role as twin sisters who...
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1917
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Although the "star system" was discouraged at Edison studios, actress Viola Dana managed to rise to fame under the Edison...
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1916
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Of the many films inspired by the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, Edison's Children of Eve was inarguably...
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1915
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1915
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This Edison five-reeler was reviewed by the trade magazine Variety under the title House of the Lost Court. Viola Dana,...
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1915
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