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