Romola Remus

Romola Remus Dunlap (April 7, 1900 – February 17, 1987) was an American actor who played Dorothy Gale in the 1908 multimedia stage/film production, The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, in which she worked directly with author L. Frank Baum.

The film was produced by the Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago, and Remus was paid $5.00 per day for her performance. Remus was cast in the film by L. Frank Baum himself.

After the film was completed, Remus and other cast members toured with L. Frank Baum. "Mr. Baum himself took the film on the road and narrated the story onstage," Remus said. "There was an orchestra and we stood offstage, singing occasionally. . . . I remember that after the film, I would come onstage to take a bow and then go to the back of the theater and sell the Oz books" Remus recalled.

Remus also appeared in other early silent films, including Mary: Ten Nights in a Bar Room and The Four-Footed Hero.

When Chicago's film studios relocated to Hollywood, her parents decided that she should stay in Chicago. Following her work in silent films, she was a vaudeville performer and an instructor of dance and music. In the last dozen years of her life, she was an organist at Chicago's 12th Church of Christ Scientist.

She appeared in the 1985 documentary The Whimsical World of Oz.