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Virginia Valli

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
53

Gender
Female

Birthday
June 10, 1898 (128 years old)

Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Virginia Valli

Biography

From Wikipedia

Virginia Valli (June 10, 1898 – September 24, 1968) was an American stage and film actress whose motion picture career started in the silent film era and lasted until the beginning of the sound film era of the 1930s.

Born Virginia McSweeney in Chicago, Illinois, she got her acting start in Milwaukee with a stock company. She also did some film work with Essanay Studios in her hometown of Chicago, starting in 1916.

Valli continued to appear in films throughout the 1920s. She was an established star at the Universal studio by the mid-1920s. In 1924 she was the female lead in King Vidor's Southern Gothic Wild Oranges, a film now being seen after several decades of film vault obscurity. She also appeared in the romantic comedy, Every Woman's Life, about "the man she could have married, the man she should have married and the man she DID marry." She made the bulk of her films between 1924 and 1927 including Alfred Hitchcock's debut feature, The Pleasure Garden, Paid To Love (1927), with William Powell, and Evening Clothes (1927), which featured Adolphe Menjou. In 1925 Valli performed in The Man Who Found Himself with Thomas Meighan. The production was made at a Long Island, New York studio.

Her first sound picture was The Isle of Lost Ships in 1929, but her film career would not last much longer due to declining fame. Unable to find a suitable studio, she quit films after making the quickie Night Life in Reno, in 1931.

Valli was first married to George Lamson and the two shared a small bungalow in Hollywood, in close proximity to the Hollywood Hotel.

In 1931, she married her second husband, actor Charles Farrell, to whom she remained married until her death. They moved to Palm Springs, where she was a social fixture for many years.

She suffered a stroke in 1966, and died two years later, aged 70, in Palm Springs, California. She was buried in the Welwood Murray Cemetery of that city.

Known For

Acting

1931Night Life in Renoas June Wyatt
1930Guilty?as Carolyn
1929The Lost Zeppelinas Miriam Hall
1929The Isle of Lost Shipsas Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick
1929Mister Antonioas June Ramsey
1929Behind Closed Doorsas Nina Laska
1928The Street of Illusionas Sylvia Thurston
1927Ladies Must Dressas Eve
1927East Side, West Sideas Becka Lipvitch
1927Judgement Of The Hillsas Margaret Dix
1927Paid to Loveas Gaby
1927Evening Clothesas Germaine
1927Marriageas Marjorie Pope
1927Stage Madnessas Madame Lamphier
1926Flamesas Anne Travers
1926The Family Upstairsas Louise Heller
1926Watch Your Wifeas Claudia Langham
1925The Pleasure Gardenas Patsy Brand
1925Siegeas Frederika
1925The Man Who Found Himselfas Nora Brooks
1925The Lady Who Liedas Fay Kennion
1925Up the Ladderas Jane Cornwall
1925The Price of Pleasureas Linnie Randall
1924K - The Unknownas Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse
1924In Every Woman's Lifeas Sara Langford
1924The Signal Toweras Sally Tolliver
1924The Confidence Manas Margaret Leland
1924Wild Orangesas Millie Stope
1924A Lady of Qualityas Clorinda Wildairs
1923The Shockas Gertrude Hadley
1922The Village Blacksmithas Alice Hammond
1922The Stormas Manette Fachard
1922The Black Bagas Dorothy Calender
1922His Back Against the Wallas Mary Welling
1922Tracked to Earthas Anna Jones
1922The Right That Failedas Constance Talbot
1921The Devil Withinas Laura
1921A Trip to Paradiseas Nora O'Brien
1921The Man Whoas Mary Turner
1921Sentimental Tommyas Lady Alice Pippinworth
1921The Silver Liningas Evelyn Schofield
1920The Common Sinas
1920The Dead Lineas Julia Weston
1920The Very Ideaas Edith Goodhue
1920The Midnight Brideas Helen Dorr
1919The Black Circleas Lucy Baird
1918Ruggles of Red Gapas Widow Judson
1918Uneasy Moneyas Elizabeth Nutcombe
1917Efficiency Edgar's Courtshipas Mary Pierce
1917Filling His Own Shoesas Roxana
1917Satan's Private Dooras June Rose
1917Skinner's Dress Suitas
His Father's Wifeas Sally Tyler

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