
Virginia Valli
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1898-06-10
Day of Death
1968-09-24 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Virginia Valli
Biography
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.
Acting
(1983)
Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres
as Mãe
(1978)
(1971)
(1931)
Night Life in Reno
as June Wyatt
(1930)
Guilty?
as Carolyn
(1929)
The Lost Zeppelin
as Miriam Hall
(1929)
Mister Antonio
as June Ramsey
(1929)
Behind Closed Doors
as Nina Laska
(1929)
The Isle of Lost Ships
as Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick
(1927)
Paid to Love
as Gaby
(1927)
Ladies Must Dress
as Eve
(1927)
East Side, West Side
as Becka Lipvitch
(1927)
Evening Clothes
as Germaine
(1927)
Judgement Of The Hills
as Margaret Dix
(1927)
Stage Madness
as Madame Lamphier
(1926)
Flames
as Anne Travers
(1926)
The Family Upstairs
as Louise Heller
(1925)
The Pleasure Garden
as Patsy Brand
(1925)
Siege
as Frederika
(1925)
The Man Who Found Himself
as Nora Brooks
(1925)
The Lady Who Lied
as Fay Kennion
(1925)
Up the Ladder
as Jane Cornwall
(1925)
The Price of Pleasure
as Linnie Randall
(1924)
Wild Oranges
as Millie Stope
(1924)
The Signal Tower
as Sally Tolliver
(1924)
A Lady of Quality
as Clorinda Wildairs
(1924)
K - The Unknown
as Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse
(1924)
The Confidence Man
as Margaret Leland
(1923)
The Shock
as Gertrude Hadley
(1922)
The Right That Failed
as Constance Talbot
(1922)
The Village Blacksmith
as Alice Hammond
(1922)
The Storm
as Manette Fachard
(1922)
His Back Against the Wall
as Mary Welling
(1922)
Tracked to Earth
as Anna Jones
(1921)
Sentimental Tommy
as Lady Alice Pippinworth
(1921)
The Devil Within
as Laura
(1921)
A Trip to Paradise
as Nora O'Brien
(1920)
The Dead Line
as Julia Weston
(1920)
(1920)
The Midnight Bride
as Helen Dorr
(1919)
The Black Circle
as Lucy Baird
(1918)
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Widow Judson
(1917)
Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
as Mary Pierce