Brilliant silent film comic who blossomed in the talkie era as a musical comedy star. Daniels began her film career as a child (her mother was a casting director) and by the mid-1910s was chosen by Hal Roach to be Harold Lloyd's leading lady. She made (and wrote) dozens of knock-about two-reel comedies with Lloyd, then rocketed to stardom when signed by Paramount's Cecil B. DeMille for "Male and Female" (1919) and other high-budget, sophisticated films ("Everywoman", 1919; "Why Change Your Wife?" 1920; "Affairs of Anatol", 1921).Daniels stayed at Paramount through the 1920s, starring in nearly
