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Viola Dana

1897 - 1987

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Viola Dana (born Virginia Flugrath; June 26, 1897 – July 3, 1987) was an American film actress who was successful during the era of silent films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viola Dana has received more than 151,794 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Viola Dana is the 6,014th most popular actor (up from 6,772nd in 2019), the 8,827th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,055th in 2019) and the 2,751st most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Viola Dana ranks 6,014 out of 13,578. Before her are Elle Fanning, Elizabeth Ashley, Prem Chopra, Laura La Plante, Jack McGee, and Anne-Marie Duff. After her are Song Yoon-ah, Sherman Hemsley, Alexandra Breckenridge, Barret Oliver, Gabrielle Union, and Marie Prevost.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Viola Dana ranks 279. Before her are Kenneth Burke, Tom Florie, Nunnally Johnson, James Parrott, Aleksandra Khokhlova, and Kálmán Tihanyi. After her are Per-Erik Hedlund, Aneurin Bevan, Ángel Médici, Edward Moore, Sigurd Moen, and Ivan Borkovský. Among people deceased in 1987, Viola Dana ranks 218. Before her are Clare Boothe Luce, Arthur F. Burns, James Burnham, Valentín Paz-Andrade, Alexis Chantraine, and George Mikes. After her are Priscilla Dean, Dennis Poore, Milt Kahl, Elizabeth Cotten, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, and Antonio Janni.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Viola Dana ranks 8,827 out of 20,380. Before her are Laura La Plante (1904), T. Keith Glennan (1905), Jack McGee (1949), John Ashcroft (1942), Ann Rule (1931), and Bobby Hutcherson (1941). After her are Sherman Hemsley (1938), Jack Parsons (1914), Alexandra Breckenridge (1982), Denton Cooley (1920), Michael McDonald (1952), and Barret Oliver (1973).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Viola Dana ranks 2,751. Before her are Austin Butler (1991), Garrett Morris (1937), Elle Fanning (1998), Elizabeth Ashley (1939), Laura La Plante (1904), and Jack McGee (1949). After her are Sherman Hemsley (1938), Alexandra Breckenridge (1982), Barret Oliver (1973), Gabrielle Union (1972), Richard Dysart (1929), and Ernie Lively (1947).

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Television and Movie Roles

A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Dec 23o 19106.3 / 10
That Certain Thing
Molly Kelly
Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.
Jan 1o 19286.4 / 10
Children of Eve
Fifty-Fifty Mamie
An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not realizing she has a significant connection to the cold-hearted factory owner.
Nov 10o 19156.2 / 10