Cast: Viola Dana

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Viola Dana. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Direction Kevin Brownlow · David Gill

Cast James Mason · Viola Dana · Byron Haskin · Colleen Moore

Synopsis The definitive documentary about the American silent film industry.

7.7

41 votes

7.7

41 votes

A Christmas Carol (S)

1910 · Movie · 11 min. · United States

Direction J. Searle Dawley · Charles Kent · Ashley Miller

Cast William Bechtel · Viola Dana · Carey Lee · Shirley Mason

Synopsis Based on the story by Charles Dickens: Ebenezer Scrooge is well known for his harsh, miserly ways, until he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, and then by three other spirits.

5.8

76 votes

5.8

76 votes

That Certain Thing

1928 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Viola Dana · Ralph Graves · Burr McIntosh · Aggie Herring

Synopsis Molly Kelly wants to marry a millionaire. When she runs into Andy Charles, heir to a restaurant fortune, she jumps at the chance and marries him. Andy's father if furious and disinherits them. Andy tries his hand at ditch digging...

5.2

21 votes

5.2

21 votes

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The Slavey Student

1915 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction John H. Collins

Cast Viola Dana · Pat O'Malley · Marie La Manna · Johnnie Walker

Synopsis John and Alma Picket by the death of their mother are left orphans and destitute. Kind-hearted Sheriff Bolles proposes that they come and live with him and his wife until John can get a position. They gladly accept his offer,...

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Open All Night

1924 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Paul Bern

Cast Viola Dana · Jetta Goudal · Adolphe Menjou · Raymond Griffith

Synopsis A couple's marriage is going stale. She wants a take-charge kind of guy, someone who'll show her who the boss is. He's not that type, and in fact believes that women don't really respect men who are. When they meet...

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Blue Jeans

1917 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John H. Collins

Cast Viola Dana · Robert Walker · Sally Crute · Clifford Bruce

Synopsis Perry Bascom comes to the town of Rising Sun, Indiana, to take charge of the sawmills which have for years been managed by his father's best friend, Col. Henry Clay Risener. His father's half-brother, Jack, has brought the name into...

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The Cossack Whip

1916 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction John H. Collins

Cast Viola Dana · Grace Williams · Robert Walker · Frank Farrington

Synopsis Feodor Turov, chief of the Russian Czar's secret police, orders his Cossacks to attack a village he believes to be infested with rebels.

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Children of Eve

1915 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction John H. Collins

Cast Viola Dana · Robert Conness · Tom Blake · Nellie Grant

Synopsis Viola Dana stars as an illegitimate child of the slums who labors in an oppressive canning company, not realizing she has a significant connection to the cold-hearted factory owner.

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Riders of the Night

1918 · Movie · 44 min. · United States

Direction John H. Collins

Cast Viola Dana · George Chesebro · Clifford Bruce · Russell Simpson

Synopsis In going for a doctor for her sick grandfather, Sally Castleton is detained at the toll-gates by John Derr. The old man dies and the villagers organize themselves into a band of night riders to break down the gates. Jed,...

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The Innocence of Ruth

1916 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction John H. Collins

Cast Edward Earle · Viola Dana · Augustus Phillips · Lena Davril

Synopsis The young Ruth Travers, left an orphan after the death of her father financially ruined by Mortimer Reynolds, is welcomed at home by Jimmy Carter, a young millionaire who becomes his guardian. Sexual violence ensues.

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The Girl Without a Soul

1917 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction John H. Collins

Cast Viola Dana · Robert Walker · Fred C. Jones · Henry Hallam

Synopsis The story of two young sisters, one a somewhat demure musician who is in love with a scoundrel who's no good for her, and the other a wild, free spirit who is the object of a shy young carpenter's affections.

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The Ice Flood

1926 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Kenneth Harlan · Viola Dana · Frank Hagney · Fred Kohler

Synopsis Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest. To prove he is a man his father sends him there to take...

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