Virginia Valli
Born
June 10, 1898
Died
September 24, 1968 (70 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Known For

Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres
Mãe
1983

Se Segura, Malandro!
1978

Rua Descalça
1971

Night Life in Reno
June Wyatt
1931

Guilty?
Carolyn
1930

The Lost Zeppelin
Miriam Hall
1929

The Isle of Lost Ships
Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick
1929

Mister Antonio
June Ramsey
1929

Behind Closed Doors
Nina Laska
1929

Ladies Must Dress
Eve
1927

East Side, West Side
Becka Lipvitch
1927

Judgement Of The Hills
Margaret Dix
1927

Paid to Love
Gaby
1927

Evening Clothes
Germaine
1927
Stage Madness
Madame Lamphier
1927
Flames
Anne Travers
1926

The Family Upstairs
Louise Heller
1926

The Pleasure Garden
Patsy Brand
1925
Siege
Frederika
1925
The Man Who Found Himself
Nora Brooks
1925

The Lady Who Lied
Fay Kennion
1925

Up the Ladder
Jane Cornwall
1925

The Price of Pleasure
Linnie Randall
1925

K - The Unknown
Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse
1924

The Signal Tower
Sally Tolliver
1924

The Confidence Man
Margaret Leland
1924

Wild Oranges
Millie Stope
1924

A Lady of Quality
Clorinda Wildairs
1924

The Shock
Gertrude Hadley
1923

The Village Blacksmith
Alice Hammond
1922

The Storm
Manette Fachard
1922

His Back Against the Wall
Mary Welling
1922

Tracked to Earth
Anna Jones
1922
The Right That Failed
Constance Talbot
1922

The Devil Within
Laura
1921

A Trip to Paradise
Nora O'Brien
1921

Sentimental Tommy
Lady Alice Pippinworth
1921

The Common Sin
1920

The Dead Line
Julia Weston
1920

The Midnight Bride
Helen Dorr
1920

The Black Circle
Lucy Baird
1919

Ruggles of Red Gap
Widow Judson
1918

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
Mary Pierce
1917