Viola Dana
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Viola Dana was an American film actress during the silent film era. She appeared in over 100 films, but was unable to make the transition to sound films.
Dana in 1922
Metro Pictures advertisement for the filmmaking team of Viola Dana and John H. Collins (1916)
Robert D. Walker and Dana in still for Aladdin's Other Lamp (1917)
Lobby card from Naughty Nannette-1927
Ormer Locklear
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Ormer Leslie "Lock" Locklear was an American daredevil stunt pilot and film actor.
Viola Dana
…Dana's first husband was Edison director John Collins who died in the influenza pandemic of 1918. In 1920, she began a relationship with Ormer "Lock" Locklear, an aviator, military veteran and budding film star. Locklear died when his aircraft crashed on August 2, 1920, during a nighttime film shoot for The…
Locklear in 1919
Locklear performing one of his famous stunts.
Ormer Locklear and Viola Dana
In Atlantic City, Ormer Locklear of Locklear's Flying Circus clings to one plane waiting for a second plane trailing a rope ladder