Virginia Valli

Born: 1898-06-10

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.


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Wild Oranges

as Millie Stope
Released: 1924-01-20

Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from...

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Guilty?

as Carolyn
Released: 1930-03-03

A Senator, accused of bribery on circumstantial evidence and sent to prison, decides to commit...

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Rua Descalça

as uncredited
Released: 1971-03-11

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Mister Antonio

as June Ramsey
Released: 1929-10-15

Antonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and...

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The Shock

as Gertrude Hadley
Released: 1923-06-10

A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been...

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The Pleasure Garden

as Patsy Brand
Released: 1927-01-14

Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is...

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Evening Clothes

as Germaine
Released: 1927-03-19

Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more...

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The Storm

as uncredited
Released: 1922-09-04

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Sentimental Tommy

as Lady Alice Pippinworth
Released: 1921-03-26

Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return....

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The Signal Tower

as Sally Tolliver
Released: 1924-07-19

A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called...

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East Side, West Side

as Becka Lipvitch
Released: 1927-10-09

Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that...

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The Isle of Lost Ships

as Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick
Released: 1929-10-16

The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a...

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The Lady Who Lied

as Fay Kennion
Released: 1925-07-12

During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love...

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Up the Ladder

as Jane Cornwall
Released: 1925-05-02

An inventor invents a television telephone while going through some love troubles.

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Paid to Love

as Gaby
Released: 1927-07-23

An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore...

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The Family Upstairs

as Louise Heller
Released: 1926-08-29

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Tracked to Earth

as Anna Jones
Released: 1922-03-06

A railroad detective is falsely accused by a rancher's daughter Virginia Valli of being a...

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The Devil Within

as Laura
Released: 1921-11-20

Director Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama

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The Lost Zeppelin

as Miriam Hall
Released: 1929-12-19

Explorers to the South Pole in an airship Zeppelin crash in the frozen Antarctic and must...

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The Village Blacksmith

as Alice Hammond
Released: 1922-11-01

(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith...

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His Back Against the Wall

as Mary Welling
Released: 1922-05-21

Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart...

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The Price of Pleasure

as Linnie Randall
Released: 1925-03-15

Their only sim was that they loved too much: lovers never stop to count the cost. He was a...

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Behind Closed Doors

as Nina Laska
Released: 1929-02-24

Behind 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 Wildairs
Released: 1924-01-14

Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to...

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Efficiency Edgar's Courtship

as Mary Pierce
Released: 1917-09-03

Efficiency wins success in business; why not in love? Edgar Bumpus, a rising young man, applies...

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Se Segura, Malandro!

as uncredited
Released: 1978-08-26

Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles...

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Judgement Of The Hills

as Margaret Dix
Released: 1927-08-01

Spanish Film released in the USA on August 1, 1927

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K - The Unknown

as Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse
Released: 1924-11-17

Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young...

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The Dead Line

as Julia Weston
Released: 1920-05-09

Although a feud between the Harlan and Boone families has been raging for years, Mollie Powell,...

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Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres

as Mãe
Released: 1983-10-31

Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself,...

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Ladies Must Dress

as Eve
Released: 1927-11-20

Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the...

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Night Life in Reno

as June Wyatt
Released: 1931-11-01

A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An...

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Ruggles of Red Gap

as Widow Judson
Released: 1918-02-25

Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable...

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The Common Sin

as uncredited
Released: 1920-07-01

Wall Street financier Frederick Searles goes bankrupt, prompting his mercenary wife to marry...

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The Confidence Man

as Margaret Leland
Released: 1924-04-20

Wade is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, down...

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The Midnight Bride

as Helen Dorr
Released: 1920-01-01

While waiting on a New York park bench for the return of her friends, country girl Jeanne...

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