Runa Hodges

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Runa Hodges was a child actor during the silent film era in the U.S. [1] She toured and appeared in person at some of the theater showings of her film series with Reliance. [2]

Hodges was born around 1907 or 1908. [3] According to a newspaper article in The Missoulian , she was first discovered when a film company was looking for someone to play a part as Cupid, and her photograph was passed along to the company. [4]

Along with working in film productions, Hodges attended the Professional Children's School in New York City. [3] She starred in multiple 1913 films for Reliance, including The Little Enchantress, Child Labor, Runa and the Black Hand, Faithful Shep, and The Dream Home. [5]

Hodges appeared in the 1915 film, A Fool There Was, as the child of "The Fool". [6] She acted the part of Stella, the daughter of Count Fabio, in the 1915 film The Unfaithful Wife. The film was based on Marie Corelli's book, Vendetta! . [7] [8] She starred in a five-reel film The Colonel's Oath, produced by Reliance. [9]

She acted alongside fellow child actor Jack Curtis in the 1916 film The House of Mirrors . [10] In 1916 she appeared in the theatrical production Margaret Schiller. [11] In 1916, she worked with the Rialto Film Corporation for a role in their first film release. [12]

She starred as Virgie in the 1918 production of The Littlest Rebel , which opened at the Empire Theater in Paterson, New Jersey. [13] [14]

IMDb lists numerous films she was in, many of them shorts. She never became a star following her childhood celebrity. [15]

Filmography

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References

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  2. ↑ "The Moving Picture World". 1913.
  3. 1 2 "A Lesson with a Moral". The Green Book Magazine. Vol. 16, no. 3. September 1916. p. 443. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  4. ↑ "A Cute Cupid". The Missoulian. July 15, 1913. p. 6. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  5. 1 2 "Untitled". Moving Picture News. Cinematograph Publishing Company: 43, 79, 696, 782, 792. January–June 1913. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  6. 1 2 Slide, Anthony (1982). Selected Film Criticism. Scarecrow Press. p. 93. ISBN   978-0-8108-1575-9 . Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Talented Child on Hawaii Bill". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. September 7, 1916. p. 12. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "Runa Hodges". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  9. 1 2 "The Colonel's Oath". Princeton Daily Clarion. June 22, 1915. p. 4. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  10. ↑ "News and Gossip of Screen and Stage". The Sunday Telegram. August 13, 1916. p. 13. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Runa Hodges – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB".
  12. ↑ "Little Runa Hodges: Engaged by New Rialto Company". The Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 28 (20): 53. May 13, 1916. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  13. ↑ "Theaters: Empire, Paterson". Passaic Daily News. February 25, 1918. p. 3. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  14. ↑ "Child Actress Is Starring At Empire". The Morning Call. February 26, 1918. p. 10. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
  15. ↑ Golden, Eve (5 May 1998). Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara. ISBN   9781461730774.
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