Valda Valkyrien (born Adele Eleonore Frede; September 30, 1895 – October 22, 1956) was a Danish silent film actress.
[1] She married Danish nobleman and author, Baron Hrolf von Dewitz, and in 1912 began appearing in motion pictures for Nordisk Film productions of Copenhagen, where she was a bit part player or, at best, a supporting cast member in at least six silent films, including one feature-length production, but not a star.
While the Baron found himself consumed by his work as a military expert for the New York Daily, Baroness Dewitz was left languishing “alone in a strange land,” but she apparently entered a beauty contest in 1914 where she won the title "Valkyrien".
Bolshevism on Trial (1919, directed by Harley Knoles and released by Lewis Selznick) was an anti-Marxist melodrama based upon a novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr. (author of The Clansman, the source for The Birth of a Nation) about a wealthy father who purchases an island off the coast of Florida and establishes a commune for his son in order to prove to the idealistic young man that communism can't work.
Valda Valkyrien moved to the West Coast where she lived until her death in Los Angeles in 1956 after a lengthy illness.