Virginia Pearson

Known for ActingBorn 1886-03-07Died 1958-06-06Anchorage, Kentucky, USA

From Wikipedia Virginia Belle Pearson (March 7, 1886 - June 6, 1958) was an American stage and film actress. She made fifty-one films in a career which extended from 1910 until 1932. Born in Anchorage, Kentucky, Pearson worked for a brief time as an assistant in the public library in Louisville, Kentucky after completing school. Pearson trained in the tradition of the stars of the American stage, and played in stock productions in Washington, D.C. and New York City. In New York she played the heroine in Hypocrisy, a story which laid bare "the shame of society." She was promoted by William Fox of Fox Film Corporation for the same kind of strong vamp parts as those played by Theda Bara. Among her movies is Blazing Love (1916), Wildness of Youth (1922), The Vital Question (1916), Sister Against Sister (1917), The Red Kimona (1925), Wizard of Oz (1925), and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). In 1916 Pearson and her husband, movie actor Sheldon Lewis, severed their ties with the Virginia Pearson Producing Company. The couple affiliated themselves with the Independent Productions Company, capitalized at $1,000,000. In 1924 the couple were forced to declare bankruptcy. In 1928, Pearson was legally divorced from Lewis. At the time, it was considered bad box office for screen actresses to be married. However the two remained constant companions., and resided for many years at the old Hollywood Hotel. Later they lived at the Motion Picture Country Hom. Virginia Pearson died of uremic poisoning in Hollywood on June 6, 1958 nearly a month to the day after Sheldon Lewis. She was 72. Funeral services were held at the Pierce Brothers Hollywood Chapel. She was buried with an unmarked grave in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.Read more

Movies & web series

The Actress

What Price Beauty?

The Power of Silence

Lucky Fool

Wildness of Youth

The Primrose Path

Atta Boy

The Stain

Smilin' Guns

Silence

Lightning Hutch

The Taxi Mystery

The Phantom of the Opera

Driven from Home

A Prince of a King

Impossible Catherine

The Bishop's Emeralds

The Love Auction

The Kiss of a Vampire

Back Street

Mum's the Word

The Red Kimona

The Wizard of Oz

Writing on the Wall

A Daughter of France

Her Price

Buchanan's Wife

The Queen of Hearts

Stolen Honor

The Firebrand

A Royal Romance

Sister Against Sister

Thou Shalt Not Steal

When False Tongues Speak

All for a Husband

Wrath of Love

Daredevil Kate

The War Bride's Secret