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Virginia Pearson‌

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Virginia Pearson

Anchorage, Kentucky, USA

Virginia Pearson

Anchorage, Kentucky, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1886-03-07

Popularity

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Biography

From Wikipedia Virginia Belle Pearson (March 7, 1886 - June 6, 1958) was an American stage and film actress. She made fifty-one films in a career which extended from 1910 until 1932. Born in Anchorage, Kentucky, Pearson worked for a brief time as an assistant in the public library in Louisville, Kentucky after completing school. Pearson trained in the tradition of the stars of the American stage, and played in stock productions in Washington, D.C. and New York City. In New York she played the heroine in Hypocrisy, a story which laid bare "the shame of society." She was promoted by William Fox of Fox Film Corporation for the same kind of strong vamp parts as those played by Theda Bara. Among her movies is Blazing Love (1916), Wildness of Youth (1922), The Vital Question (1916), Sister Against Sister (1917), The Red Kimona (1925), Wizard of Oz (1925), and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). In 1916 Pearson and her husband, movie actor Sheldon Lewis, severed their ties with the Virginia Pearson Producing Company. The couple affiliated themselves with the Independent Productions Company, capitalized at $1,000,000. In 1924 the couple were forced to declare bankruptcy. In 1928, Pearson was legally divorced from Lewis. At the time, it was considered bad box office for screen actresses to be married. However the two remained constant companions., and resided for many years at the old Hollywood Hotel. Later they lived at the Motion Picture Country Hom. Virginia Pearson died of uremic poisoning in Hollywood on June 6, 1958 nearly a month to the day after Sheldon Lewis. She was 72. Funeral services were held at the Pierce Brothers Hollywood Chapel. She was buried with an unmarked grave in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

Movie Credits

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera‌
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calendar 1925

A Daughter of France

A Daughter of France‌
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calendar 1918

Driven from Home

Driven from Home‌
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calendar 1927

Silence

Silence‌
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calendar 1926

Mum's the Word

Mum's the Word‌
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calendar 1926

The Actress

The Actress‌
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calendar 1928

Daredevil Kate

Daredevil Kate‌
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calendar 1916

Her Price

Her Price‌
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calendar 1918

A Royal Romance

A Royal Romance‌
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calendar 1917

Smilin' Guns

Smilin' Guns‌
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calendar 1929

The Red Kimona

The Red Kimona‌
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calendar 1925

The Primrose Path

The Primrose Path‌
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calendar 1931

What Price Beauty?

What Price Beauty?‌
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calendar 1928

Buchanan's Wife

Buchanan's Wife‌
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calendar 1918

Back Street

Back Street‌
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calendar 1932

The Kiss of a Vampire

The Kiss of a Vampire‌
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calendar 1916

Atta Boy

Atta Boy‌
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calendar 1926

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz‌
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calendar 1925

The Power of Silence

The Power of Silence‌
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calendar 1928

Impossible Catherine

Impossible Catherine‌
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calendar 1919

Lucky Fool

Lucky Fool‌
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calendar 1927

The Stain

The Stain‌
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calendar 1914

Lightning Hutch

Lightning Hutch‌
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calendar 1926

Writing on the Wall

Writing on the Wall‌
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calendar 1916

Sister Against Sister

Sister Against Sister‌
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calendar 1917

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