Virginia Norden Now With Vitagraph (1916) 🇺🇸

Virginia Norden, an actress of considerable note on the American stage, has joined the forces of the Vitagraph and will lend her splendid screen personality to the success of that company’s films. She is at present working under the direction of Ralph Ince at the Bayshore studio of the Vitagraph and will make her bow to the public in a Blue Ribbon Feature in which Anita Stewart will also appear. [Transcriber’s Note: The movie referred to is most likely The Combat (1916)]

Miss Norden will be remembered by theatregoers as the lead in Elinor Gates’ [Eleanor Gates] The Poor Little Rich Girl, which enjoyed a successful Broadway run two seasons ago. She also played in Guy Bolton’s Rule of Three.

Although her screen experience is limited she is an actress of marked versatility and under Ralph Ince’s guidance she is expected to take a high place among film luminaries.

She is a Washington, D. C. girl, the daughter of Major William N. Dalton and Olivia Williams. Norden is a family name she has adopted for professional use. She was educated in private schools in Washington and has spent some time at a convent. Developing aspirations for a stage career, she was placed in the Empire School of Dramatic Acting in Manhattan, from which she graduated with high honors and was immediately cast in a well known stock company. Here she gained experience that added the finishing touches to her technique.

Interested in motion pictures from their very inception, she waited an opportunity to enlist with the Vitagraph and when the time came recently she was eager to begin her new profession. As a writer of short stories she has already gained quite a reputation and she plans to turn some of her attention to the writing of scripts.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, February 1916

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see also Edward J. Brady (1916)