Norden acted on the stage, making her Broadway debut in 1913, in Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates.[7][8] She also wrote a play, Making the Movies (1916).[9] In 1916, she contributed a recipe for "Virginia Chow Chow" to a charity cookbook, assembled by Mabel Rowland.[10]
Norden's silent film credits included roles in Baby Hands (1912), For the Mikado (1912),[5]Freddy the Fixer (1916),[11]The Destroyers (1916, also known as Peter God),[12]The Ancient Blood (1916),[13]The Dupe (1916),[14]The Deluded Wife (1916), The Combat (1916), The Dawn of a New Day (1916), Virtuous Wives (1918), and The Mind the Paint Girl (1919).[15]
Clubwork during World War I
Norden formed and led a garden club in Brightwaters, Long Island in 1917, to encourage women to grow vegetables and market their produce locally.[16] The "Patriotic Gardeners", as they were known, also gave benefit shows[17] and raised funds for sending comfort kits, candy, cigarettes, and other supplies to Long Island men serving in World War I.[18][19]
Fashion design
In 1913, Norden gave an interview on the subject of beauty, predicting that "Soon a rational era will come," when women "will revert to simple clothes, stop daubing their faces with cosmetics ... and use the time thus saved to cultivate heart and mind qualities."[3] While working with director Ralph Ince in 1916, she also designed costumes and headed the wardrobe department at Ince Productions.[20] After she left acting, she began a dress and millinery business with her cousin Martha Schorbach and her sister Olivia Dalton[21] in New York,[22][23][24] and was described as a "modiste" in 1928.[25]
Personal life
Violet Dalton married three times. Her first husband was Howard A. Potts; they married in 1898. She married Henry Nickel, in 1906; they divorced in 1928. She married a businessman, Otto Christopher Bubeck, in 1928.[26] She was widowed by 1940, and she died in Los Angeles, California, in 1948, aged 68 years.[27]
^State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics. via Ancestry
