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Violet MacMillan (March 4, 1887 - December 29, 1953), was an American actress in Broadway theatre productions, vaudeville, and silent motion pictures. She was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

MacMillan gained fame as the Cinderella Girl in a contest to discover a woman with feet small enough to wear a Cinderella golden slipper. She was hesitant, but entered a Broadway show, and won. Her foot measured an 11 1/2 children's size.

Soon she had a leading part in the original production of the musical, The Time, The Place and The Girl. While engaged in this play, in the 1908 season, the actress had surgery at Harper Hospital, Detroit, Michigan . In 1914 Violet performed in Patchwork Girl of Oz at the Mozart Theater in Los Angeles, California. She completed a successful vaudeville tour in 1916. She participated in the stage production, The Wishing Slippers, at Universal City, California. Another play of note is In And Out of the Movies. She performed in this vaudeville oddity, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, during the fall of 1917.

In motion pictures Miss MacMillan debuted in the film version of Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914). She was an actress for Universal Pictures, but her movie career was not a long one. She made twenty-six motion pictures, ending with the role of Violet Bronson in The Mystery Mind (1920). Among her co-star in films were Lon Chaney, Blanche Ring, Trixie Friganza, and Julian Eltinge. Violet retired from show business in 1922.

As Mrs. John H. Folger, she was the wife of an industrial executive, who became her press agent in entertainment.

Violet MacMillan died in Grand Rapids, at her home, in 1953. She was 66 years old.