Juanita Hansen

Actor, Film actor

1895 – 1961

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Who was Juanita Hansen?

Juanita C. Hansen was an American silent film actress. Beginning as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, she appeared in a variety of serials through the late 1910s. She was well known for her troubled personal life and struggle with addiction to cocaine and morphine. In 1934 she became clean and traveled lecturing on the evils of drugs. She wrote a book about addiction and started her own charity to help raise awareness about drug abuse.

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Born
Mar 3, 1895
Des Moines
Also known as
  • Juanita C. Hansen
  • The Queen of Thrills
  • Wahnetta Hanson
  • Juanita Parsons
  • Wahneta Hanson
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • Iowa
Died
Sep 26, 1961
Los Angeles

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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