Viola Dana — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Viola Dana just couldn’t help being a star, not that she had anything to say about it, but because stars are born and not made.

At the age of 6, Miss Dana, then a wee morsel of loveliness, made her debut in the theatrical profession and less than twelve years of varied experience and associations with Broadway’s most prominent stars enabled her to conceive the artistic creation of “Gwendolyn” in Miss Eleanor Gates’ most recent Broadway success, The Poor Little Rich Girl.

Then came a happy thought and with apologies to Shakespeare, she quoted: “Not that I love the stage less, but I love the pictures more”; and with the same zeal that gave her rating among “theatrical stars” she entered in the profession of shadows and lights and already the seeds of stardom have taken deep root.

One of her latest screen successes is “The Blind Fiddler.” She is now with Edison.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, September 1914