- Violet MacMillan
Infobox actor
name = Violet MacMillan
birthdate = birth date|1887|3|4|mf=y
birthplace =Grand Rapids, Michigan ,United States
deathdate = death date and age|1953|12|29|1887|3|4|mf=y
deathplace =Grand Rapids, Michigan ,United States Violet MacMillan (
March 4 ,1887 –December 29 ,1953 ), was an Americanactress inBroadway theatre productions,vaudeville , and silent motion pictures. She was born inGrand Rapids, Michigan .Tiny feet
MacMillan gained fame as the "Cinderella Girl" in a contest to discover a woman with feet small enough to wear a "Cinderella" golden slipper. She was hesitant, but entered a Broadway show, and won. Her foot measured an 11½ children's size.
Theatrical actress
Soon she had a leading part in the original production of the musical, "The Time, The Place and The Girl". While engaged in this play, in the 1908 season, the actress had surgery at Harper Hospital,
Detroit, Michigan . She completed a successful vaudeville tour in 1916. She participated in the stage production, "The Wishing Slippers", atUniversal City, California . Another play of note is "In And Out of the Movies". She performed in this "vaudeville oddity", inFort Wayne, Indiana , during the fall of 1917.ilent films
In motion pictures Miss MacMillan joined the stock company of
The Oz Film Manufacturing Company and debuted in the film version of "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" (1914) and "The Magic Cloak of Oz " (1914) and the lost series ofL. Frank Baum -written and produced shorts, "Violet's Dreams", in which she played a girl named Claribel who had fairy-tale adventures in her dreams. She was an actress forUniversal Pictures . She made twenty-six motion pictures, ending with the role of Violet Bronson in "The Mystery Mind" (1920). Among her co-stars in films wereLon Chaney ,Blanche Ring ,Trixie Friganza , andJulian Eltinge . Violet retired from show business in 1922.Personal life
As Mrs. John H. Folger, she was the wife of an industrial executive, who became her press agent in entertainment.
Violet MacMillan died in Grand Rapids, Michigan at her home, in 1953. She was 66 years old.
References
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Lima, Ohio Daily News, "Orpheum", Monday, November 11, 1917, Page 10.
*Los Angeles Times , "Violet MacMillan", December 2, 1914, Page III4.
* Los Angeles Times, "Camera Clicks", December 17, 1916, Page III21.
*New York Times , "Violet MacMillan Has Recovered", December 26, 1908, Page 3.
* New York Times, "Cinderella Girl Dies", December 30, 1953, Page 23.
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