Bow - Lipped Flapper Viola Dana 1924 Silent Film Glamour Photograph
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ITEM: This is a 1924 vintage and original photograph of silent film actress Viola Dana. A gorgeous Roaring Twenties studio portrait, Dana is the picture of jazz age flapper glamour with her dark raven tresses cut into a modish bob and adorned with a lace headband her lips deeply rouged and bow shaped. Entering films in 1910, Dana made silent pictures in New York before making the move to Hollywood in the latter years of the decade. Dana remained in California acting primary for Me...tro Pictures, but saw her popularity begin to wane by the end of the 1920s. She retired from the screen in 1929. The press snipe on verso reads:
A photographic study of Viola Dana, winsome Metro-Goldwyn star, who appears in "Revelation" and "The Beauty Prize", adapted from Nina Wilcox Putnam's story.
Photograph measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock with studio paper caption on verso.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about Viola Dana:
Viola Dana (real name Virginia Flugrath) was born in Brooklyn, NY, on June 26, 1897. She was the middle sister of three sisters (the other two were Edna Flugrath and Shirley Mason). She made her film debut in 1914 in Molly the Drummer Boy (1914). The following year she received top billing playing "Gladiola Bain" in Gladiola (1915). She was in top demand as evidenced by securing another lead in The Innocence of Ruth (1916). She continued to turn in great performances, particularly as Katie O'Doone in Bred in Old Kentucky (1926). Viola's final silver screen role was in 1929's One Splendid Hour (1929). The last the general public saw her was in a documentary about 'Buster Keaton' called Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987).
Viola died on July 3, 1987, at age 90.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson
A photographic study of Viola Dana, winsome Metro-Goldwyn star, who appears in "Revelation" and "The Beauty Prize", adapted from Nina Wilcox Putnam's story.
Photograph measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock with studio paper caption on verso.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about Viola Dana:
Viola Dana (real name Virginia Flugrath) was born in Brooklyn, NY, on June 26, 1897. She was the middle sister of three sisters (the other two were Edna Flugrath and Shirley Mason). She made her film debut in 1914 in Molly the Drummer Boy (1914). The following year she received top billing playing "Gladiola Bain" in Gladiola (1915). She was in top demand as evidenced by securing another lead in The Innocence of Ruth (1916). She continued to turn in great performances, particularly as Katie O'Doone in Bred in Old Kentucky (1926). Viola's final silver screen role was in 1929's One Splendid Hour (1929). The last the general public saw her was in a documentary about 'Buster Keaton' called Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987).
Viola died on July 3, 1987, at age 90.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson
