Runa Hodges

Runa Hodges was a child actor during the silent film era in the U.S.[1] She toured and appeared in person at some of the theater showings of her film series with Reliance.[2]

Hodges was born around 1907 or 1908.[3] According to a newspaper article in The Missoulian, she was first discovered when a film company was looking for someone to play a part as Cupid, and her photograph was passed along to the company.[4]

Along with working in film productions, Hodges attended the Professional Children's School in New York City.[3] She starred in multiple 1913 films for Reliance, including The Little Enchantress, Child Labor, Runa and the Black Hand, Faithful Shep, and The Dream Home.[5]

Hodges appeared in the 1915 film, A Fool There Was, as the child of "The Fool".[6] She acted the part of Stella, the daughter of Count Fabio, in the 1915 film The Unfaithful Wife. The film was based on Marie Corelli's book, Vendetta!.[7][8] She starred in a five-reel film The Colonel's Oath, produced by Reliance.[9]

She acted alongside fellow child actor Jack Curtis in the 1916 film The House of Mirrors.[10] In 1916 she appeared in the theatrical production Margaret Schiller.[11] In 1916, she worked with the Rialto Film Corporation for a role in their first film release.[12]

She starred as Virgie in the 1918 production of The Littlest Rebel, which opened at the Empire Theater in Paterson, New Jersey.[13][14]

IMDb lists numerous films she was in, many of them shorts. She never became a star following her childhood celebrity.[15]