Vivian Ruth Andersen (1895-1958) began performing in a vaudeville act with her sister, and later worked on Broadway. She made one film on the east coast in 1915, but her Hollywood career started in 1924.
Oakland did a lot of work for the Hal Roach studio, and at different times played the wife of both Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel. She also played Edgar Kennedy’s wife in a series of shorts. Most of her pictures were shorts and programmers, though Oakland did have a small role in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
In The Florodora Girl, Oakland was Maud, in a double act with Ilka Chase as Marion Davies’s friends.
