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]

Filmography

• The Little Enchantress (1913)
• Child Labor (1913)
• Runa and the Black Hand (1913)
• Faithful Shep (1913)
• The Dream Home (1913) ^[5]
• A Fool There Was ^[6]
• Should a Mother Tell? (1915) ^[8]
• The Unfaithful Wife (1915) ^[8]
• The Colonel's Oath (c. 1915) ^[9]
• The House of Mirrors (1916) ^[8]
• Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917) ^[8]

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