VALDA VALKYRIEN

Valda Valkyrien was born Adele Stuart Freed in Iceland in 1895, and became the prima ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet. In 1915, she met and married Danish Baron Hrolf Von DeWitz, and they had a son, but they soon divorced. She went to Hollywood and made movies with David Horsley and Thanhauser. William Fox signed her to a contract, but they had a dispute, and she sued him, and that lawsuit ended her Hollywood career. She performed in the Ziegfeld Follies and married New York industrialist Robert Otto, and had another son. She tried to make a comeback in Hollywood in 1927, but that did not result in any movies, and she retired. Valda passed away in 1956 at the age of 61. She is certainly a fascinating figure in early movie history who is only known to major film buffs.