Viola Roehl

Last updated
Viola Roehl
Born
Viola M. Roehl

1905
OccupationFilm editor
Spouse(s)James Jefferys
Children1

Viola Roehl was an American film editor who cut B movies in the early 1930s. [1]

Contents

Biography

Viola was born to Max Roehl and Myrtle Bonner in Butte, Montana. The family moved west in the early 1920s. According to census records, she was already working as a film cutter by 1930, however she didn't receive her first credit until 1931's Sheer Luck. She married James Jefferys in 1933, and the pair had a son. Her date of death is unknown.

Selected filmography

Related Research Articles

Ben Lyon American actor

Ben Lyon was an American film actor and a studio executive at 20th Century-Fox who later acted in British radio, films and TV.

Elissa Landi Italian actress

Elissa Landi was an Italian-born Austrian-American actress and novelist who was popular as a performer in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. She was noted for her alleged aristocratic bearing.

Sally Blane American actress

Sally Blane was an American actress who appeared in over 100 movies.

Monty Banks Italian comedian and director

Montague (Monty) Banks, born Mario Bianchi, was a 20th century Italian comedian, film actor, director and producer who achieved success in the United Kingdom and the United States. He was billed as the Thrill King of Comedy.

Mary Nolan

Mary Nolan was an American stage and film actress, singer and dancer. She began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in the 1920s performing under the stage name Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson. She was fired from the Ziegfeld Follies in 1924 for her involvement in a tumultuous, highly publicized affair with comedian Frank Tinney. She left the United States shortly thereafter and began making films in Germany. She appeared in seventeen German films from 1925 to 1927 using the stage name Imogene Robertson.

John Edward Ince, also credited as John E. Ince, was an American stage and motion pictures actor, a film director, and the eldest brother of Thomas H. Ince and Ralph Ince.

Sally Eilers

Dorothea Sally Eilers was an American actress.

Addie McPhail was an American film actress. She appeared in 64 films between 1927 and 1941. She was the third and last wife of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. After she retired from acting, she served for 17 years as a volunteer nurse at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.

Josephine Dunn

Mary Josephine Dunn was an American stage and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s.

Eve Southern

Eve Southern was an American film actress. She appeared in 38 films from 1916 to 1936. In 1930 she was selected by portrait artist Rolf Armstrong as one of the film industry's 16 "screen beauties". She is buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

Ida Wüst German actress

Ida Wüst was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA).

<i>Sailors Luck</i> 1933 film by Raoul Walsh

Sailor's Luck is a 1933 pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh for Fox Film Corporation. It stars James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Victor Jory, and Frank Moran. The plot has a sailor on shore leave falling for a nice girl, with a series of misunderstandings leading them to doubt each other's loyalty. A cast of colorful characters provides comic relief and the film concludes with a massive brawl between sailors and bouncers at a dance marathon. The film is noted for having a gay swimming-pool attendant.

Margaret Landis

Margaret Cullen Landis was an American silent screen actress who appeared in at least 41 films between 1915 and 1931.

Jenny Jugo Austrian actress

Jenny Jugo was an Austrian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films between 1925 and 1950.

Robert Kurrle American cinematographer

Robert Kurrle, also known as Robert B. Kurrle, was an American cinematographer during the silent and early talking film eras. Prior to entering the film industry, he was already experimenting with aerial photography. Considered a very prominent cinematographer, even his early work received notice and praise from both critics and other industry professionals. The advent of sound film did not abate his continued rise, and he became the top director of photography at Warner Brothers by 1932.

Noel Francis American actress (1906–1959)

Noel Francis was an American actress of the stage and screen during the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Texas, she began her acting career on the Broadway stage in the mid-1920s, before moving to Hollywood at the beginning of the sound film era.

Viola Brothers Shore was an American author who worked in a variety of mediums from the 1910s through the 1930s.

<i>Over the Hill</i> (1931 film) 1931 film

Over the Hill is a 1931 American Pre-Code black-and-white melodrama film directed by Henry King for Fox Film Corporation. Starring Mae Marsh, James Dunn, Sally Eilers, and Olin Howland, the story concerns a young mother who devotedly cares for her children but when they grow up, most of them turn their backs on her and she has no choice but to go live in the poorhouse. The film is a remake of the 1920 silent film Over the Hill to the Poorhouse, which had been a major box-office hit for Fox. The story was based on a pair of poems by Will Carleton. Over the Hill also inspired the South Korean film adaptation Over the Ridge (1968). The production marked Marsh's first sound film and the second pairing of Dunn and Eilers, who had achieved celebrity in Fox's Bad Girl released earlier in the year.

Ann McKnight was an American film editor active primarily during Hollywood's silent era, and has been credited as the first women to take up the profession. She cut more than two dozen films during the mid-1910s and early 1930s, and often worked with fellow editor George Marsh.

The Shindig is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on July 11, 1930, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the twentieth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the fifth of that year.

References

  1. 1 2 Pitts, Michael R. (2015-09-17). Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland. ISBN   9781476610368.
  2. 1 2 3 Film Daily; Film Daily (1932). Film Daily Year Book (1932). Media History Digital Library. New York, The Film Daily.
  3. Staff, America Film Institute; Afi, American Film; Gevinson, Alan; Institute, American Film (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520209640.