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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.
Virginia Valli Biography / Wiki
| Name | Virginia Valli |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Chicago – Illinois – USA |
| Date of Birth | 1898-06-10 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 70 |
| Deathday | 1968-09-24 |
Virginia Valli Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Pleasure Garden | Patsy Brand | 1927-01-14 | Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill mee… |
| The Signal Tower | Sally Tolliver | 1924-07-19 | A railroad worker accepts a colleague’s offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a pla… |
| Up the Ladder | Jane Cornwall | 1925-05-02 | An inventor invents a television telephone while going through some love troubles…. |
| Night Life in Reno | June Wyatt | 1931-11-01 | A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America’s “Biggest Little City.” An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy … |
| Siege | Frederika | 1925-09-27 | A stern old woman, who owns the largest factory in a small town and has ruled both the factory and the town with an iron hand, finds herself battling … |
| A Lady of Quality | Clorinda Wildairs | 1924-01-14 | Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorind… |
| The Price of Pleasure | Linnie Randall | 1925-03-15 | Their only sim was that they loved too much: lovers never stop to count the cost. He was a young millionaire and she was only a “Bargain “Basement” g… |
| The Family Upstairs | Louise Heller | 1926-08-29 | … |
| K – The Unknown | Sidney Page – a beautiful nurse | 1924-11-17 | Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious fellow… |
| Behind Closed Doors | Nina Laska | 1929-02-24 | Behind the doors of a foreign government’s embassy in Washington D. C., a group of royal loyalists is attempting to raise funds to aid a counter-revol… |
| Paid to Love | Gaby | 1927-07-23 | An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank’s money and shore up the country’s weak economy in order to maximize the … |
| The Shock | Gertrude Hadley | 1923-06-10 | A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love w… |
| East Side, West Side | Becka Lipvitch | 1927-10-09 | Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that fully exploits star George O’Brien’s championship … |
| The Lost Zeppelin | Miriam Hall | 1929-12-19 | Explorers to the South Pole in an airship Zeppelin crash in the frozen Antarctic and must struggle for survival in the land of eternal snow and ice…. |
| Mister Antonio | June Ramsey | 1929-10-15 | Antonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and money in a disreputable bar. Tony recognizes the man as Jo… |
| Wild Oranges | Millie Stope | 1924-01-20 | Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them – an… |
| His Back Against the Wall | Mary Welling | 1922-05-21 | Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retr… |
| Tracked to Earth | Anna Jones | 1922-03-06 | A railroad detective is falsely accused by a rancher’s daughter Virginia Valli of being a notorious outlaw…. |
| Judgement Of The Hills | Margaret Dix | 1927-08-01 | Spanish Film released in the USA on August 1, 1927… |
| The Devil Within | Laura | 1921-11-20 | Director Bernard J. Durning’s silent seafaring romantic melodrama… |
| The Right That Failed | Constance Talbot | 1922-02-20 | The Right That Failed… |
| The Confidence Man | Margaret Leland | 1924-04-20 | Wade is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, down to the small Florida town of Fairfield to make a sale… |
| Evening Clothes | Germaine | 1927-03-19 | Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D’Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D’Artois retaliates by moving to the city… |
| The Man Who Found Himself | Nora Brooks | 1925-08-23 | Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama… |
| The Lady Who Lied | Fay Kennion | 1925-07-12 | During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virginia Valli). Their romance is dera… |
| Efficiency Edgar’s Courtship | Mary Pierce | 1917-09-03 | Efficiency wins success in business; why not in love? Edgar Bumpus, a rising young man, applies this reasoning to his courtship of Mary Pierce. He fir… |
| The Isle of Lost Ships | Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick | 1929-10-16 | The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitaphone track of effects and music. It was produced b… |
| Flames | Anne Travers | 1926-09-15 | Railroad builder James Travers (George Nichols) wants his pretty daughter, Anne (Virginia Valli), to marry Herbert Landis, a young engineer (Eugene O’… |
| Guilty? | Carolyn | 1930-03-30 | A Senator, accused of bribery on circumstantial evidence and sent to prison, decides to commit suicide so that his daughter will feel free to marry th… |
| The Village Blacksmith | Alice Hammond | 1922-11-01 | (survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom … |
| The Storm | 1922-09-04 | … | |
| Ruggles of Red Gap | Widow Judson | 1918-02-25 | Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-re… |
| The Midnight Bride | Helen Dorr | 1920-01-01 | While waiting on a New York park bench for the return of her friends, country girl Jeanne Sterling meets Forrest Chenoweth, a rich young wastrel who, … |
| The Common Sin | 1920-07-01 | Wall Street financier Frederick Searles goes bankrupt, prompting his mercenary wife to marry their eldest daughter Needa to the wealthy, disreputable … | |
| The Dead Line | Julia Weston | 1920-05-09 | Although a feud between the Harlan and Boone families has been raging for years, Mollie Powell, the Harlan’s stepdaughter, is secretly in love with Cl… |
| Rua Descalça | 1971-03-11 | … | |
| Sentimental Tommy | Lady Alice Pippinworth | 1921-03-26 | Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return. Grizel is ostracized by the other children of the town. T… |
| Perdoa-Me Por Me TraÃres | Mãe | 1983-10-31 | Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself, and that her father Gilberto has gone crazy as result…. |
| Se Segura, Malandro! | 1978-08-26 | Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help h… | |
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