Vonda Phelps was a child stage actress and dancer in the 1920s. She was in a couple of silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 productions.

Child prodigy

In May 1924 Phelps participated in Good Fairy, a fantasy in two acts, at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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. She performed along with almost twenty other children. Phelps appeared as a dancer at the Christmas

Christmas

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 program of the Cosmos Club the following December. Her presentation was highlighted by a rendition of Pierrotte Phantasy. The dance was her original creation and demonstrated her unique personality. Phelps gave a similar interpretation of the dance at the Ambassador Theater in Los Angeles. Her performance was part of a concert given by The Children's Opera in June 1926.

Films

Phelps was in two motion pictures in the early 1920s. They are The Man Who Waited (1922) and The Jungle Goddess (1922). She appeared as June as a baby, and Betty as a little girl, respectively.

Ephemeral fame

Her fame as a youth performer did not endure. Vonda Phelps is not mentioned in newspaper articles after a reference to her birthday celebration in April 1928. She was given a luncheon at the Elite on Hollywood Boulevard

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 in Los Angeles. Guests were entertained at a table replete with a centerpiece of sweet peas rendered in pastel

Pastel

Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation....

 shades. Later the celebrants went to Grauman's Chinese Theater. Virginia Marshall

Virginia Marshall

Virginia Marshall was a child motion picture actress in silent film features of the 1920s.-Brief stardom:Marshall appeared in a Los Angeles Times feature entitled Stars Tomorrow? in April 1925. She was among a group of children that...

was among Phelps' birthday attendants.