Veola Vonn (July 27, 1918 – October 28, 1995) was an American

radio actress Voice acting is the art of performing a character or providing information to an audience with one's voice. Performers are often called voice actors/actresses in addition to other names. Examples of voice work include animated, off-stage, off-scr ...

and singer who also appeared in a number of films and television series. Her first feature film was the Poverty Row ''

Smashing the Vice Trust ''Smashing the Vice Trust'' is a 1937 American crime film, crime drama film directed by Melville Shyer and starring Willy Castello, Veola Vonn and Selmer Jackson. Marketed as an exploitation film, it was produced and distributed by the Poverty Row ...

'' (1937) in which she played the female lead. She was married to the British actor

Hanley Stafford Hanley Stafford (born Alfred John Austin, September 22, 1899 – September 9, 1968), was an actor principally on radio. He is remembered best for playing Lancelot Higgins on '' The Baby Snooks Show''. Stafford also assumed the role of Mr. Dithers ...

and appeared alongside him on several radio shows including '' Blondie''.Reinehr & Swartz p.244 After his death she married actor Frank Nelson. She is sometimes credited as Vyola Vonn.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1937) * ''

Ragtime Cowboy Joe "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is a popular western swing song. The lyrics were written by Grant Clarke and the music was composed by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams. It was copyrighted and published in 1912 by F.A. Mills. Artists The song has been ...

'' (1940) * ''

Burma Convoy ''Burma Convoy'' is a 1941 American war film directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers and Frank Albertson. Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures as a second feature, it is about a truck convoy on the Burma R ...

'' (1941) * '' My Favorite Spy'' (1951) * '' South Sea Woman'' (1953) * ''

Paris Playboys ''Paris Playboys'' is a 1954 American comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on March 7, 1954, by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, Allied Artists and is the thirty-third film in the series ...

'' (1954) * ''

Phantom of the Rue Morgue ''Phantom of the Rue Morgue'' is a 1954 American mystery horror film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin and Patricia Medina. The film is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story ''The Murders in the Rue ...

'' (1954) * '' Spy Chasers'' (1955) * '' The Go-Getter'' (1956) * ''

Lafayette Escadrille The La Fayette Escadrille () was the name of the French Air Force unit escadrille N 124 during the First World War (1914–1918). This escadrille of the History of the Armée de l'Air (1909–1942)#World War I (1914–1918), ''Aéronautique Mil ...

'' (1958) * ''

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock ''The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock'' is a 1959 American comedy science fiction film starring Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine and directed by Sidney Miller. Plot Artie Pinsetter is a junk collector and amateur inventor who lives in the desert ...

'' (1959)

References

Bibliography

* Reinehr, Robert C. & Swartz, Jon D. ''The A to Z of Old Time Radio''. Scarecrow Press, 2010. * Schaefer, Eric. ''"Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959''. Duke University Press, 1999. * Schulz, Clair. ''Tuning in the Great Gildersleeve: The Episodes and Cast of Radio's First Spinoff Show, 1941–1957''. McFarland, 2013.

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