Personal Life
Dana's first husband was Edison director John Collins who died in the Influenza epidemic of 1918. In 1920 she was engaged to aviator Ormer Locklear who died that year in a movie stunt plane crash. Dana was married to Yale football star and actor Maurice "Lefty" Flynn from 1925 to 1929 and to golfer Jimmy Thomson from 1930 to 1945.
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