Romola Remus Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Romola Remus Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Romola Remus Dunlap (April , â€" February , ) was an American actress

who was the first to play Dorothy Gale in film, in the multimedia

stage/film production The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, an adaptation of

the Oz books. She worked directly with author L. Frank Baum, the

creator of the character.Remus was the daughter of the highly

successful bootlegger George Remus and his first wife Lillian Klauff

Remus. Her father, a pharmacist, later became a successful criminal

defense lawyer in Chicago and a bootlegger in Cincinnati.The

Fairylogue and Radio-Plays was produced by the Selig Polyscope Company

in Chicago, and Remus was paid $. per day for her performance. Remus

was cast in the film by L. Frank Baum himself.After the film was

completed, Remus and other cast members toured with L. Frank Baum.

"Mr. Baum himself took the film on the road and narrated the story

onstage," Remus said. "There was an orchestra and we stood offstage,

singing occasionally. . . . I remember that after the film, I would

come onstage to take a bow and then go to the back of the theater and

sell the Oz books" Remus recalled.
Romola Remus Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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