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Virginia Valli‌

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Birthday

calendar1898-06-10

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Virginia Valli

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Virginia Valli

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1898-06-10

Popularity

star0.8

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.

Movie Credits

Flames

Flames‌
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calendar 1926

The Dead Line

The Dead Line‌
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calendar 1920

The Pleasure Garden

The Pleasure Garden‌
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calendar 1927

The Common Sin

The Common Sin‌
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calendar 1920

Paid to Love

Paid to Love‌
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calendar 1927

The Shock

The Shock‌
star5.1
calendar 1923

Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles of Red Gap‌
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calendar 1918

East Side, West Side

East Side, West Side‌
star7.2
calendar 1927

The Village Blacksmith

The Village Blacksmith‌
star5.3
calendar 1922

The Lost Zeppelin

The Lost Zeppelin‌
star4.8
calendar 1929

The Midnight Bride

The Midnight Bride‌
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calendar 1920

The Signal Tower

The Signal Tower‌
star5.2
calendar 1924

Rua Descalça

Rua Descalça‌
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calendar 1971

Mister Antonio

Mister Antonio‌
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calendar 1929

Guilty?

Guilty?‌
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calendar 1930

Wild Oranges

Wild Oranges‌
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calendar 1924

His Back Against the Wall

His Back Against the Wall‌
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calendar 1922

Tracked to Earth

Tracked to Earth‌
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calendar 1922

Up the Ladder

Up the Ladder‌
star5.0
calendar 1925

Stage Madness

Stage Madness‌
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calendar 1927

The Devil Within

The Devil Within‌
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calendar 1921

Ladies Must Dress

Ladies Must Dress‌
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calendar 1927

Night Life in Reno

Night Life in Reno‌
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calendar 1931

Siege

Siege‌
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calendar 1925

Judgement Of The Hills

Judgement Of The Hills‌
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calendar 1927

The Right That Failed

The Right That Failed‌
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calendar 1922

Sentimental Tommy

Sentimental Tommy‌
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calendar 1921

The Confidence Man

The Confidence Man‌
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calendar 1924

A Lady of Quality

A Lady of Quality‌
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calendar 1924

The Price of Pleasure

The Price of Pleasure‌
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calendar 1925

The Family Upstairs

The Family Upstairs‌
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calendar 1926

The Storm

The Storm‌
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calendar 1922

K - The Unknown

K - The Unknown‌
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calendar 1924

Evening Clothes

Evening Clothes‌
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calendar 1927

The Man Who Found Himself

The Man Who Found Himself‌
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calendar 1925

The Lady Who Lied

The Lady Who Lied‌
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calendar 1925

Se Segura, Malandro!

Se Segura, Malandro!‌
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calendar 1978

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors‌
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calendar 1929

Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres

Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres‌
star5.3
calendar 1983

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship‌
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calendar 1917

The Isle of Lost Ships

The Isle of Lost Ships‌
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calendar 1929

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