1920s Actresses (February 2004 - November 2010)

[northernsky]

Biography for
Viola Dana [imdb]


Birth name Virginia Flugrath Height 4' 11½" (1.51 m) Mini biography Viola Dana was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 26, 1897 with the birth name of Virginia Flugrath. She was the middle sister of three actresses (the other two were Edna Flugrath and Shirley Mason). She made her film debut in 1914 in the film MOLLY THE DRUMMER BOY at the age of 17. The following year Viola received top billing as Gladiola Bain in GLADIOLA. She was in top demand as evidenced by another title role in THE INNOCENCE OF RUTH. She continued to turn in great performances particularly as Katie O'Doone in BRED IN OLD KENTUCKY. Viola's final silver screen role was in 1929's ONE SPLENDID HOUR. The last the general public saw her was in a documentary about Buster Keaton called A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW in 1987 for television. Viola was to die that year on July 3. She was 90 years old.


some pictures of viola dana. i'm always amazed what transistion some actresses could make between two different eras. the looks of the 10s, 20s and 30s were so entirely different but some of those ladies could adopt two or three of those 'looks'.

[from silentladies]

 

[northernsky]

more viola dana.

[from www.movietreasures.com]

 

[northernsky]

with buster "sure you can stand on my shoulders everyone does" keaton.

[from silentladies.]

 

[cheiby11]

Thank you for Viola Dana. She is so beautiful I love the first and third pic of her

 

[northernsky]

i'm glad you like them.

mary philbin. (what a picture..)

(from www.movietreasures.com)

 

[northernsky]

colleen moore. she looks a bit haggard. it's not the typical autograph picture.
but somehow i like it.

another one.

[from www.movietreasures.com]

 

[cheiby11]

Northernsky, I love everything you post!!! I'd like to give you another karma, but I can't now

 

[northernsky]

hey, nevermind. it's the thought that counts. thanks.

the last ones for today. betty bronson.

[from www.silentsaregolden.com]

 

[northernsky]

i just ordered marion davies "the times we had". furthermore i won "broken blossoms" and elisabeth bergner's memoirs in an auction on ebay. i'm happy and broke now.

[the first attached pics of marion and lillian are from ebay, the last two of elisabeth bergner are from www.cyranos.ch.]

 

[northernsky]

the picture of lillian gish standing in front of a bird cage is one of my favourites, i found it in a film book but i can't find it in a decent size online.

[from cyranos and corbis]

 

[sosneha]

i love this thread, all pics r old but fantastic

 

[northernsky]

lillian gish about getting older in the film business:

"You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older."

but i wouldn't say it's really true in her case.

 

[northernsky]

a few more.

• The stage was our school, our home, our life.
  [*]The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.
  [*]Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton. [ ]
  [*]You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
  [*]What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

 

[DosViolines]

Dorothy Knapp.

I've never heard of her and all I could find was this:

source: doctormacro.com


The photographer was Alfred Cheney Johnston. Ms. Knapp was a professional model and acted in three films. In 1930 she became the first woman to sign a contract with NBC; she was hired to give beauty talks on NBC Station W2XBS in New York. She and Louise Brooks starred in the 1925 Ziegfeld Follies―the only Follies in which Brooks appeared.

source: costumes.org

 

[DosViolines]

Found another pic of miss Knapp (1920

source: markreubengallery.com

 

[northernsky]

great pics! thank you.

 

[northernsky]

norwegian actress aud edege nissen. (1893-1974)

she isn't that well rememberred as an actress today but she had parts in some very important silent movies. she worked with ernst lubitsch (sumurun & anna boleyn, both 1920), fritz lang (dr mabuse the gambler, 1922) and f.w. murnau (the phantom, 1922 & the expulsion, 1923)

[picture from www.cyranos.ch]

 

[northernsky]

there are hardly any pictures of her online.. but i think she is worth a look.

a scene from sumurun

[from www.deutsches-filminstitut.de]

a scene from expulsion.

[from www.filmportal.de]

a scene from dr. mabuse. she is the woman on the right. i don't know who the other woman is.

[from corbis]

 

[northernsky]

ah, stupid me. now i even typed her name wrong. it's egede, as you can read on the autograph, not edege. sorry for that.

 

[northernsky]

and one last picture.

[from ebay]