Virginia Valli
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 10, 1898
- Died
- September 24, 1968 (aged 70)
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
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Filmography
His Father's Wife
Movie · as Sally Tyler
Night Life in Reno
Movie · as June Wyatt
Guilty?
Movie · as Carolyn
The Lost Zeppelin
Movie · as Miriam Hall
Mister Antonio
Movie · as June Ramsey
Behind Closed Doors
Movie · as Nina Laska
The Isle of Lost Ships
Movie · as Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick
The Street of Illusion
Movie · as Sylvia Thurston
Paid to Love
Movie · as Gaby
East Side, West Side
Movie · as Becka Lipvitch
Stage Madness
Movie · as Madame Lamphier
Ladies Must Dress
Movie · as Eve
Judgement Of The Hills
Movie · as Margaret Dix
Evening Clothes
Movie · as Germaine
Marriage
Movie · as Marjorie Pope
Flames
Movie · as Anne Travers
The Family Upstairs
Movie · as Louise Heller
Watch Your Wife
Movie · as Claudia Langham
The Pleasure Garden
Movie · as Patsy Brand
Up the Ladder
Movie · as Jane Cornwall
Siege
Movie · as Frederika
The Price of Pleasure
Movie · as Linnie Randall
The Man Who Found Himself
Movie · as Nora Brooks
The Lady Who Lied
Movie · as Fay Kennion
The Signal Tower
Movie · as Sally Tolliver
Wild Oranges
Movie · as Millie Stope
The Confidence Man
Movie · as Margaret Leland
A Lady of Quality
Movie · as Clorinda Wildairs
K - The Unknown
Movie · as Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse
In Every Woman's Life
Movie · as Sara Langford
The Shock
Movie · as Gertrude Hadley
The Village Blacksmith
Movie · as Alice Hammond
His Back Against the Wall
Movie · as Mary Welling
Tracked to Earth
Movie · as Anna Jones
The Right That Failed
Movie · as Constance Talbot
The Storm
Movie · as Manette Fachard
The Black Bag
Movie · as Dorothy Calender
The Devil Within
Movie · as Laura
Sentimental Tommy
Movie · as Lady Alice Pippinworth
A Trip to Paradise
Movie · as Nora O'Brien
The Silver Lining
Movie · as Evelyn Schofield
The Man Who
Movie · as Mary Turner
The Dead Line
Movie · as Julia Weston
The Common Sin
Movie
The Midnight Bride
Movie · as Helen Dorr
The Very Idea
Movie · as Edith Goodhue
The Black Circle
Movie · as Lucy Baird
Ruggles of Red Gap
Movie · as Widow Judson
Uneasy Money
Movie · as Elizabeth Nutcombe
Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
Movie · as Mary Pierce
Skinner's Dress Suit
Movie
Filling His Own Shoes
Movie · as Roxana
Satan's Private Door
Movie · as June Rose