Juanita Hansen

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Juanita Hansen
Hansen in 1920
Born	Juanita Cecilia Hanson (1895-03-03)March 3, 1895 Thor, Iowa, U.S.
Died	September 26, 1961(1961-09-26) (aged 66) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
Occupations	Actress author speaker
Years active	1915–1933

Juanita Hansen (born Juanita Cecilia Hanson; March 3, 1895 – September 26, 1961)^[1] was an American actress who performed in silent films. She became one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties and appeared in a variety of serials through the late 1910s. She was well known for her troubled personal life and struggle with addiction to cocaine and morphine. In 1934, she became clean and traveled lecturing on the dangers of drugs. She wrote a book about addiction and started her own charity to help raise awareness about drug abuse.^[2]