Virginia Norden (May 4, 1879 – January 17, 1948), born Violet Alice Dalton, was an American actress on stage and in silent films.
Violet Dalton was from Washington, D.C., [1] the daughter of William Newton Dalton and Olivia Alice Williams Dalton. [2] Her father was a major in the United States Army. [3] [4] She studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. [5] [6]
Norden acted on the stage, making her Broadway debut in 1913, in Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates. [7] [8] She also wrote a play, Making the Movies (1916). [9] In 1916, she contributed a recipe for "Virginia Chow Chow" to a charity cookbook, assembled by Mabel Rowland. [10]
Norden's silent film credits included roles in Baby Hands (1912), For the Mikado (1912), [5] Freddy the Fixer (1916), [11] The Destroyers (1916, also known as Peter God), [12] The Ancient Blood (1916), [13] The Dupe (1916), [14] The Deluded Wife (1916), The Combat (1916), The Dawn of a New Day (1916), Virtuous Wives (1918), and The Mind the Paint Girl (1919). [15]
Norden formed and led a garden club in Brightwaters, Long Island in 1917, to encourage women to grow vegetables and market their produce locally. [16] The "Patriotic Gardeners", as they were known, also gave benefit shows [17] and raised funds for sending comfort kits, candy, cigarettes, and other supplies to Long Island men serving in World War I. [18] [19]
In 1913, Norden gave an interview on the subject of beauty, predicting that "Soon a rational era will come," when women "will revert to simple clothes, stop daubing their faces with cosmetics ... and use the time thus saved to cultivate heart and mind qualities." [3] While working with director Ralph Ince in 1916, she also designed costumes and headed the wardrobe department at Ince Productions. [20] After she left acting, she began a dress and millinery business with her cousin Martha Schorbach and her sister Olivia Dalton [21] in New York, [22] [23] [24] and was described as a " modiste" in 1928. [25]
Violet Dalton married three times. Her first husband was Howard A. Potts; they married in 1898. She married Henry Nickel, in 1906; they divorced in 1928. She married a businessman, Otto Christopher Bubeck, in 1928. [26] She was widowed by 1940, and she died in Los Angeles, California, in 1948, aged 68 years. [27]
Virginia Norden (May 4, 1879 – January 17, 1948), born Violet Alice Dalton, was an American actress on stage and in silent films.
Violet Dalton was from Washington, D.C., [1] the daughter of William Newton Dalton and Olivia Alice Williams Dalton. [2] Her father was a major in the United States Army. [3] [4] She studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. [5] [6]
Norden acted on the stage, making her Broadway debut in 1913, in Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates. [7] [8] She also wrote a play, Making the Movies (1916). [9] In 1916, she contributed a recipe for "Virginia Chow Chow" to a charity cookbook, assembled by Mabel Rowland. [10]
Norden's silent film credits included roles in Baby Hands (1912), For the Mikado (1912), [5] Freddy the Fixer (1916), [11] The Destroyers (1916, also known as Peter God), [12] The Ancient Blood (1916), [13] The Dupe (1916), [14] The Deluded Wife (1916), The Combat (1916), The Dawn of a New Day (1916), Virtuous Wives (1918), and The Mind the Paint Girl (1919). [15]
Norden formed and led a garden club in Brightwaters, Long Island in 1917, to encourage women to grow vegetables and market their produce locally. [16] The "Patriotic Gardeners", as they were known, also gave benefit shows [17] and raised funds for sending comfort kits, candy, cigarettes, and other supplies to Long Island men serving in World War I. [18] [19]
In 1913, Norden gave an interview on the subject of beauty, predicting that "Soon a rational era will come," when women "will revert to simple clothes, stop daubing their faces with cosmetics ... and use the time thus saved to cultivate heart and mind qualities." [3] While working with director Ralph Ince in 1916, she also designed costumes and headed the wardrobe department at Ince Productions. [20] After she left acting, she began a dress and millinery business with her cousin Martha Schorbach and her sister Olivia Dalton [21] in New York, [22] [23] [24] and was described as a " modiste" in 1928. [25]
Violet Dalton married three times. Her first husband was Howard A. Potts; they married in 1898. She married Henry Nickel, in 1906; they divorced in 1928. She married a businessman, Otto Christopher Bubeck, in 1928. [26] She was widowed by 1940, and she died in Los Angeles, California, in 1948, aged 68 years. [27]