LIKE others of the Christie Comedy players. Viora Daniel was recruited
from the ranks of the regular dramatic actresses, she having been in the
Lasky stock company before joining the Christie organization, to be featured
in a comedy called "Let Me Explain."
During the last two years she has been featured in such pictures as "In
For Life," "A PAir of Sexes," "Twas Ever Thus,"
and "Cold Feet." The latter was an outstanding comedy success
of 1922, a burlesque on the popular and overworked Northwest Mounted Police
dramas. It was made in Truckee with scenic backgrounds and was hailed as
something new in comedies.
Miss Daniel is one of the few real "native daughters," having
been born on a California ranch near San Lucas, January 24, 1902, and her
short life has been active. She has had time to travel about, living in
Portland and Spokane for some time, and to make a name for hcrself in pictures.
She came to Los Angeles with nothing definite in view or in mind, but had
no trouble in obtaining the lead opposite Jack Gardner in "So This
Is America?" as her first part. Her beauty and ability won her a place
in the Lasky stock company. With Famous Players Lasky, she played with Ethel
Clayton in "The Young Mrs. Winthrop," and with Roscoe Arbuckle
in "The Life of the Party." Later she played with Max Linder in
"Be My Wife" and then joined Christie Comedies. making "A
Barnyard Cavalier," "Cold Feet," and "That Son of a
Sheik."
Miss Daniel is five feet one and one-half inches tall, weighs 125 pounds,
and has dark hair and eyes. |