Virginia Valli

Known for ActingBorn 1898-06-10Died 1968-09-24Chicago, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Street of Illusion

Flames

The Right That Failed

The Dead Line

The Midnight Bride

Guilty?

Stage Madness

Siege

The Lady Who Lied

In Every Woman's Life

The Devil Within

A Trip to Paradise

The Very Idea

Evening Clothes

Marriage

The Family Upstairs

His Back Against the Wall

The Black Bag

The Silver Lining

The Man Who

The Common Sin

Ruggles of Red Gap

East Side, West Side

Behind Closed Doors

The Isle of Lost Ships

Ladies Must Dress

Judgement Of The Hills

Watch Your Wife

The Price of Pleasure

The Man Who Found Himself

The Confidence Man

A Lady of Quality

K - The Unknown

Tracked to Earth

The Storm

Sentimental Tommy

Paid to Love

Wild Oranges

Mister Antonio

The Lost Zeppelin

The Signal Tower

The Pleasure Garden

The Village Blacksmith

The Shock

Up the Ladder

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship

Night Life in Reno

The Black Circle