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.

Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres

Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres

Mãe

5.7

1983

Se Segura, Malandro!

Se Segura, Malandro!

3.0

1978

Rua Descalça

Rua Descalça

0.0

1971

Night Life in Reno

Night Life in Reno

June Wyatt

4.1

1931

Guilty?

Guilty?

Carolyn

0.0

1930

The Lost Zeppelin

The Lost Zeppelin

Miriam Hall

4.8

1929

The Isle of Lost Ships

The Isle of Lost Ships

Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick

0.0

1929

Mister Antonio

Mister Antonio

June Ramsey

5.0

1929

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors

Nina Laska

0.0

1929

Ladies Must Dress

Ladies Must Dress

Eve

0.0

1927

East Side, West Side

East Side, West Side

Becka Lipvitch

7.2

1927

Judgement Of The Hills

Judgement Of The Hills

Margaret Dix

0.0

1927

Paid to Love

Paid to Love

Gaby

6.0

1927

Evening Clothes

Evening Clothes

Germaine

0.0

1927

Stage Madness

Madame Lamphier

0.0

1927

Flames

Anne Travers

0.0

1926

The Family Upstairs

The Family Upstairs

Louise Heller

0.0

1926

The Pleasure Garden

The Pleasure Garden

Patsy Brand

5.3

1925

Siege

Frederika

0.0

1925

The Man Who Found Himself

Nora Brooks

0.0

1925

The Lady Who Lied

The Lady Who Lied

Fay Kennion

0.0

1925

Up the Ladder

Up the Ladder

Jane Cornwall

5.0

1925

The Price of Pleasure

The Price of Pleasure

Linnie Randall

0.0

1925

K - The Unknown

K - The Unknown

Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse

0.0

1924

The Signal Tower

The Signal Tower

Sally Tolliver

5.2

1924

The Confidence Man

The Confidence Man

Margaret Leland

0.0

1924

Wild Oranges

Wild Oranges

Millie Stope

6.3

1924

A Lady of Quality

A Lady of Quality

Clorinda Wildairs

0.0

1924

The Shock

The Shock

Gertrude Hadley

5.1

1923

The Village Blacksmith

The Village Blacksmith

Alice Hammond

5.3

1922

The Storm

The Storm

Manette Fachard

0.0

1922

His Back Against the Wall

His Back Against the Wall

Mary Welling

0.0

1922

Tracked to Earth

Tracked to Earth

Anna Jones

0.0

1922

The Right That Failed

Constance Talbot

0.0

1922

The Devil Within

The Devil Within

Laura

0.0

1921

A Trip to Paradise

A Trip to Paradise

Nora O'Brien

0.0

1921

Sentimental Tommy

Sentimental Tommy

Lady Alice Pippinworth

4.0

1921

The Common Sin

The Common Sin

0.0

1920

The Dead Line

The Dead Line

Julia Weston

0.0

1920

The Midnight Bride

The Midnight Bride

Helen Dorr

0.0

1920

The Black Circle

The Black Circle

Lucy Baird

0.0

1919

Ruggles of Red Gap

Ruggles of Red Gap

Widow Judson

0.0

1918

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship

Mary Pierce

5.0

1917