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 | | Dainty, popular silent film star Viola Dana was born Virginia Flugrath in Brooklyn, New York on June 26th, 1897, and she was educated in the public schools in that city. |
 | | Viola became a stage actress in her early teen years, and won the title part in the Belasco stage production of "The Poor Little Rich Girl", which later proved to be a big hit silent film for Mary Pickford. |
 | | Viola started her feature film work at age seventeen with the Edison Company, with a lead role in "Molly The Drummer Boy" (1914), and then worked tirelessly in many silents for Edison, and also for comedies with Mack Sennett, for Metro, First National, Apollo Pictures, Screen Classics, and the Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation. |
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