Violet Louise Wilkey (January 10, 1903 â€" June 5, 1976) was an
American child actress who appeared in 18 films over a four-year
period during the silent film era.Violet Wilkey was born in St. Louis,
Missouri to an English father named Arthur Wilkey and an American
mother named Anna Dora Wilkey (née Winter). Violet made her motion
picture debut at the age of 10 in a 1913 dramatic short entitled The
Little Mother opposite actress Ruth Stonehouse. Her follow-up film
would be 1914 release The Old Maid opposite such popular stars of the
era as Blanche Sweet, Spottiswoode Aitken, Mary Alden and Jack
Conway.She is possibly best remembered today for her appearance as a
young Flora in D. W. Griffith's controversial 1915 classic The Birth
of a Nation. Wilkey portrayed the character Flora Cameron as a child
in flashback scenes; the character of Flora as an adult in the film
was portrayed by actress Mae Marsh.Wilkey spent the next few years in
relatively minor roles; including one of actor/director Tod Browning's
early efforts The Burned Hand from 1915. Other notable films of the
period were the Lloyd Ingraham directed and Anita Loos penned drama
The Children Pay (1916), opposite Lillian Gish and Alma Rubens and the
1917 drama Cheerful Givers opposite Bessie Love, Aitken, Kenneth
Harlan and Pauline Starke.
American child actress who appeared in 18 films over a four-year
period during the silent film era.Violet Wilkey was born in St. Louis,
Missouri to an English father named Arthur Wilkey and an American
mother named Anna Dora Wilkey (née Winter). Violet made her motion
picture debut at the age of 10 in a 1913 dramatic short entitled The
Little Mother opposite actress Ruth Stonehouse. Her follow-up film
would be 1914 release The Old Maid opposite such popular stars of the
era as Blanche Sweet, Spottiswoode Aitken, Mary Alden and Jack
Conway.She is possibly best remembered today for her appearance as a
young Flora in D. W. Griffith's controversial 1915 classic The Birth
of a Nation. Wilkey portrayed the character Flora Cameron as a child
in flashback scenes; the character of Flora as an adult in the film
was portrayed by actress Mae Marsh.Wilkey spent the next few years in
relatively minor roles; including one of actor/director Tod Browning's
early efforts The Burned Hand from 1915. Other notable films of the
period were the Lloyd Ingraham directed and Anita Loos penned drama
The Children Pay (1916), opposite Lillian Gish and Alma Rubens and the
1917 drama Cheerful Givers opposite Bessie Love, Aitken, Kenneth
Harlan and Pauline Starke.
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