ABOUT JUANITA HANSEN
Silent film-era actress who overcame a drug addiction to write a book and tour the country, talking about her experiences.
She was one of Mack Sennett 's 'Bathing Beauties,' doing slapstick comedy, and eventually gaining fame along with a $1,500-per-week contract.
Her taste for cocaine made her unemployable until she got clean in 1928; but by then a hotel accident left her injured and addicted to morphine.
She was born in Des Moines, Iowa, moving with the family to California at a young age.
One of her earliest roles was in a 1915 D.W. Griffith -produced film.
