Virginia Valli
Age: 70 | From: Chicago - Illinois - USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1898-06-10 18:05:10
Death: 1968-09-24 18:05:10
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Chicago - Illinois - USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 29
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Pleasure Garden
(1927) Patsy Brand
The Devil Within
(1921) Laura
Tracked to Earth
(1922) Anna Jones
The Shock
(1923) Gertrude Hadley
Sentimental Tommy
(1921) Lady Alice Pippinworth
Judgement Of The Hills
(1927) Margaret Dix
Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres
(1983) Mãe
K - The Unknown
(1924) Sidney Page - a beautiful nurseActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Mãe | |
| 1978 | N/A | |
| 1971 | N/A | |
| 1931 | June Wyatt | |
| 1930 | Carolyn | |
| 1929 | Miriam Hall | |
| Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick | ||
| June Ramsey | ||
| Nina Laska | ||
| 1927 | Eve | |
| Becka Lipvitch | ||
| Margaret Dix | ||
| Gaby | ||
| Germaine | ||
| Patsy Brand | ||
| Madame Lamphier | ||
| 1926 | Anne Travers | |
| Louise Heller | ||
| 1925 | Frederika | |
| Nora Brooks | ||
| Fay Kennion | ||
| Jane Cornwall | ||
| Linnie Randall | ||
| 1924 | Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse | |
| Sally Tolliver | ||
| Margaret Leland | ||
| Millie Stope | ||
| Clorinda Wildairs | ||
| 1923 | Gertrude Hadley | |
| 1922 | Alice Hammond | |
| N/A | ||
| Mary Welling | ||
| Anna Jones | ||
| Constance Talbot | ||
| 1921 | Laura | |
| Lady Alice Pippinworth | ||
| 1920 | N/A | |
| Julia Weston | ||
| Helen Dorr | ||
| 1918 | Widow Judson | |
| 1917 | Mary Pierce | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
