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In 1919, she was cast in the role of "The Powerful Katrinka" in ''The Toonerville Trolley'' silent film series based on [[Fontaine Fox]]'s ''[[Toonerville Folks]]'' comic strip, which was produced by [[Siegmund Lubin]]'s [[Betzwood Motion Picture Studios]] in Pennsylvania.<ref name=BeforeHollywood>{{cite web|title=Before Hollywood: Betzwood|work=Moving Image Archive News|url=http://www.movingimagearchivenews.org/the-larger-than-life-wilna-hervey-3/|accessdate=24 October 2012|date=April 26, 2012}}</ref><ref name=betzwooddigitalarchive>{{cite web|title=Betzwood Film Archive|url=http://mc3betzwood.wordpress.com/|publisher=Libraries at Montgomery County Community College|accessdate=24 October 2012}}</ref> Much of the slapstick comedy in the series revolves around Hervey's imposing physical stature—she stood 6 feet 3 inches—in contrast with her diminutive male co-stars.<ref name=BiggestGirl /><ref name=findagrave />
While Hervey was in Pennsylvania working on the production, she met the painter [[Nan Mason]] (1896-1982), the daughter of her co-star Dan Mason, who played the Skipper.<ref name=BiggestGirl>{{cite web|last=Eckhardt|first=Joseph P.|title=The Biggest Girl: Wilna Hervey, Actress and Artist|url=http://mc3betzwood.wordpress.com/actors/wilna-hervey/|work=The Betzwood Film Archive|publisher=Montgomery County Community College Library|accessdate=24 October 2012|location=Pottstown, PA}}</ref> Nan and Hervey became life partners, remaining together until Hervey's death in 1979.<ref name=AAA-FA>{{cite web|title=A Finding Aid to the Wilna Hervey and Nan Mason Papers, 1883-1985|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/wilna-hervey-and-nan-mason-papers-15628/more|work=Archives of American Art|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=24 October 2012}}</ref>
When the Toonerville Trolley films ceased production in 1921, Hervey and Dan Mason reprised a version of their characters for the [[Plum Center Comedies]], an unofficial knockoff comedy series produced by the [[Paul Gerson Pictures Corporation]] in California.<ref name=BiggestGirl /> This time Hervey played the "Amazonian baggage smasher" Tillie Overton, who was clearly inspired by the Powerful Katrinka.<ref name="McBride2011">{{cite book|author=Joseph McBride|title=Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=DMkLpTFBEtUC&pg=PA136|accessdate=24 October 2012|date=28 February 2011|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-838-4|pages=136–}}</ref>
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