Virginia Valli
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.
The Pleasure Garden
as Patsy BrandPatsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is...
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Paid to Love
as GabyAn American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore...
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The Isle of Lost Ships
as Dorothy Whitlock / RenwickThe Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a...
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Wild Oranges
as Millie StopeMillie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from...
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East Side, West Side
as Becka LipvitchDirector Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that...
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Judgement Of The Hills
as Margaret DixAn Epic Of Passion Swept Lives! The village hero - boasted and popular- yet a coward. Lauded by...
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The Price of Pleasure
as Linnie RandallTheir only sim was that they loved too much: lovers never stop to count the cost. He was a...
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Se Segura, Malandro!
as uncreditedPaulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles...
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The Common Sin
as uncreditedWall Street financier Frederick Searles goes bankrupt, prompting his mercenary wife to marry...
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The Lost Zeppelin
as Miriam HallExplorers to the South Pole in an airship Zeppelin crash in the frozen Antarctic and must...
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The Shock
as Gertrude HadleyA gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been...
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Up the Ladder
as Jane CornwallAn inventor invents a television telephone while going through some love troubles.
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The Village Blacksmith
as Alice Hammond(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith...
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The Storm
as Manette FachardWhen two men, one from the city the other a trapper and a woman are trapped in a cabin in the...
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Ladies Must Dress
as EveJoe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the...
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Ruggles of Red Gap
as Widow JudsonHarry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable...
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The Signal Tower
as Sally TolliverA railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called...
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The Midnight Bride
as Helen DorrWhile waiting on a New York park bench for the return of her friends, country girl Jeanne...
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The Devil Within
as LauraDirector Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama
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Guilty?
as CarolynA Senator, accused of bribery on circumstantial evidence and sent to prison, decides to commit...
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Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres
as MãeGlorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself,...
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Sentimental Tommy
as Lady Alice PippinworthGrizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return....
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Night Life in Reno
as June WyattA story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An...
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Behind Closed Doors
as Nina LaskaBehind the doors of a foreign government's embassy in Washington D. C., a group of royal...
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A Lady of Quality
as Clorinda WildairsClorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to...
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The Lady Who Lied
as Fay KennionDuring a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love...
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Tracked to Earth
as Anna JonesA railroad detective is falsely accused by a rancher's daughter Virginia Valli of being a...
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The Dead Line
as Julia WestonAlthough a feud between the Harlan and Boone families has been raging for years, Mollie Powell,...
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Evening Clothes
as GermaineAttracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more...
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K - The Unknown
as Sidney Page - a beautiful nurseSidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young...
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The Confidence Man
as Margaret LelandWade is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, down...
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Mister Antonio
as June RamseyAntonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and...
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Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
as Mary PierceEfficiency wins success in business; why not in love? Edgar Bumpus, a rising young man, applies...
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His Back Against the Wall
as Mary WellingJeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart...
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