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Vera Reynolds (25 November 1899 — 22 April 1962) was an American film actress. Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1899, she started out as a dancer, worked as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and became a leading lady in silent motion pictures. Among her film credits are starring roles in Sam Wood's Prodigal Daughters (1923), and Cecil B. DeMille's Feet of Clay (1924), The Golden Bed (1925), and The Road to Yesterday (1925). A petite, blue-eyed brunette, with a vivacious, "bubbling-over personality", she was constantly looking for fun. Reporters noted that she was so tiny that she... MORE

Vera Reynolds (25 November 1899 — 22 April 1962) was an American film actress. Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1899, she started out as a dancer, worked as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and became a leading lady in silent motion pictures. Among her film credits are starring roles in Sam Wood's Prodigal Daughters (1923), and Cecil B. DeMille's Feet of Clay (1924), The Golden Bed (1925), and The Road to Yesterday (1925). A petite, blue-eyed brunette, with a vivacious, "bubbling-over personality", she was constantly looking for fun. Reporters noted that she was so tiny that she reminded one much more of a little girl than a mature movie star. While she was working with DeMille, he loaned her out so frequently to other studios that she seldom knew where her dressing room might be from day to day. On August 28, 1927, police in Hollywood reported that Reynolds had taken poison. Later the same evening she clarified what had occurred. She explained that an excited telephone operator had phoned the police when her mother requested a doctor. The police arrived along with an ambulance. The actress was found unconscious on the floor of a bathroom in her Hollywood home. Police responded LESS