Virginia Valli
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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
Credits
Marriage (1927)
as Marjorie Pope
The Street of Illusion (1928)
as Sylvia Thurston
A Lady of Quality (1924)
as Clorinda Wildairs
In Every Woman's Life (1924)
as Sara Langford
East Side, West Side (1927)
as Becka Lipvitch
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
as Patsy Brand
The Lady Who Lied (1925)
as Fay Kennion
Sentimental Tommy (1921)
as Lady Alice Pippinworth
Skinner's Dress Suit (1917)
Actor
Uneasy Money (1918)
as Elizabeth Nutcombe
The Man Who Found Himself (1925)
as Nora Brooks
Ruggles of Red Gap (1918)
as Widow Judson
The Isle of Lost Ships (1929)
as Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick
Filling His Own Shoes (1917)
as Roxana
A Trip to Paradise (1921)
as Nora O'Brien
His Father's Wife (—)
as Sally Tyler
Night Life in Reno (1931)
as June Wyatt
The Right That Failed (1922)
as Constance Talbot
Judgement Of The Hills (1927)
as Margaret Dix
His Back Against the Wall (1922)
as Mary Welling
Mister Antonio (1929)
as June Ramsey
The Man Who (1921)
as Mary Turner
Watch Your Wife (1926)
as Claudia Langham
The Signal Tower (1924)
as Sally Tolliver
Paid to Love (1927)
as Gaby
Efficiency Edgar's Courtship (1917)
as Mary Pierce
Satan's Private Door (1917)
as June Rose
The Price of Pleasure (1925)
as Linnie Randall
Stage Madness (1927)
as Madame Lamphier
The Silver Lining (1921)
as Evelyn Schofield
Up the Ladder (1925)
as Jane Cornwall
K - The Unknown (1924)
as Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse
The Very Idea (1920)
as Edith Goodhue
Ladies Must Dress (1927)
as Eve
The Family Upstairs (1926)
as Louise Heller
Wild Oranges (1924)
as Millie Stope
Behind Closed Doors (1929)
as Nina Laska
The Lost Zeppelin (1929)
as Miriam Hall
Evening Clothes (1927)
as Germaine
The Shock (1923)
as Gertrude Hadley
The Common Sin (1920)
Actor
The Devil Within (1921)
as Laura
The Black Bag (1922)
as Dorothy Calender
Guilty? (1930)
as Carolyn
Siege (1925)
as Frederika
The Midnight Bride (1920)
as Helen Dorr
The Storm (1922)
as Manette Fachard
The Village Blacksmith (1922)
as Alice Hammond
Tracked to Earth (1922)
as Anna Jones
The Confidence Man (1924)
as Margaret Leland
The Black Circle (1919)
as Lucy Baird
Flames (1926)
as Anne Travers
The Dead Line (1920)
as Julia Weston