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Virginia Valli
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Virginia Valli
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1898-06-10,Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

10

Flames
1926-09-15

10

The Dead Line
1920-05-09

The Pleasure Garden

5.388

The Pleasure Garden
1925-11-03

8

The Common Sin
1920-07-01

6.5

Paid to Love
1927-07-23

5.321

The Shock
1923-06-10

Ruggles of Red Gap

8

Ruggles of Red Gap
1918-02-25

East Side, West Side

7.167

East Side, West Side
1927-10-09

The Village Blacksmith

5.333

The Village Blacksmith
1922-11-01

The Lost Zeppelin

5.8

The Lost Zeppelin
1929-12-19

The Midnight Bride

10

The Midnight Bride
1920-01-01

The Signal Tower

5.778

The Signal Tower
1924-07-19

6

Mister Antonio
1929-10-15

9

Guilty?
1930-03-03

6.5

Wild Oranges
1924-01-20

His Back Against the Wall

8

His Back Against the Wall
1922-05-21

Tracked to Earth

7

Tracked to Earth
1922-03-06

5.167

Up the Ladder
1925-05-02

9

Stage Madness
1927-01-09

The Devil Within

9

The Devil Within
1921-11-20

Ladies Must Dress

7

Ladies Must Dress
1927-11-20

Night Life in Reno

4.455

Night Life in Reno
1931-11-01

9

Siege
1925-09-27

Judgement Of The Hills

7

Judgement Of The Hills
1927-08-01

The Right That Failed

10

The Right That Failed
1922-02-20

Sentimental Tommy

7

Sentimental Tommy
1921-03-26

The Confidence Man

7

The Confidence Man
1924-04-20

A Lady of Quality

7

A Lady of Quality
1924-01-14

The Price of Pleasure

7

The Price of Pleasure
1925-03-15

The Family Upstairs

8

The Family Upstairs
1926-08-29

7

The Storm
1922-09-04

K - The Unknown

7

K - The Unknown
1924-11-17

Evening Clothes

8

Evening Clothes
1927-03-19

The Man Who Found Himself

7

The Man Who Found Himself
1925-08-23

The Lady Who Lied

9

The Lady Who Lied
1925-07-12

Behind Closed Doors

7

Behind Closed Doors
1929-02-24

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship

5

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
1917-09-03

The Isle of Lost Ships

7

The Isle of Lost Ships
1929-10-16

A Trip to Paradise

9

A Trip to Paradise
1921-09-05

The Black Circle

0

The Black Circle
1919-10-20

8

The Black Bag
1922-06-05

9

The Very Idea
1920-03-15

The Silver Lining

8

The Silver Lining
1921-01-29

8

Marriage
1927-02-13

In Every Woman's Life

9

In Every Woman's Life
1924-09-28

8

The Man Who
1921-07-04

Watch Your Wife

7

Watch Your Wife
1926-04-04

Skinner's Dress Suit

0

Skinner's Dress Suit
1917-02-06

His Father's Wife

8

His Father's Wife

0

Uneasy Money
1918-01-01

The Street of Illusion

10

The Street of Illusion
1928-09-03

Filling His Own Shoes

0

Filling His Own Shoes
1917-06-11

Satan's Private Door

0

Satan's Private Door
1917-03-19