1898-06-10 Chicago, 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.
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Night Life in Reno | June Wyatt | 1931-11-01 |
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Guilty? | Carolyn | 1930-03-03 |
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The Lost Zeppelin | Miriam Hall | 1929-12-19 |
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Behind Closed Doors | Nina Laska | 1929-02-24 |
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The Isle of Lost Ships | Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick | 1929-10-16 |
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Mister Antonio | June Ramsey | 1929-10-15 |
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The Street of Illusion | Sylvia Thurston | 1928-09-03 |
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Stage Madness | Madame Lamphier | 1927-01-09 |
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Ladies Must Dress | Eve | 1927-11-20 |
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Marriage | Marjorie Pope | 1927-02-13 |
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Judgement Of The Hills | Margaret Dix | 1927-08-01 |
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Evening Clothes | Germaine | 1927-03-19 |
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Paid to Love | Gaby | 1927-07-23 |
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East Side, West Side | Becka Lipvitch | 1927-10-09 |
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The Family Upstairs | Louise Heller | 1926-08-29 |
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Flames | Anne Travers | 1926-09-15 |
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Watch Your Wife | Claudia Langham | 1926-04-04 |
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Siege | Frederika | 1925-09-27 |
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The Pleasure Garden | Patsy Brand | 1925-11-03 |
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Up the Ladder | Jane Cornwall | 1925-05-02 |
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The Man Who Found Himself | Nora Brooks | 1925-08-23 |
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The Price of Pleasure | Linnie Randall | 1925-03-15 |
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The Lady Who Lied | Fay Kennion | 1925-07-12 |
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A Lady of Quality | Clorinda Wildairs | 1924-01-14 |
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In Every Woman's Life | Sara Langford | 1924-09-28 |
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K - The Unknown | Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse | 1924-11-17 |
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The Confidence Man | Margaret Leland | 1924-04-20 |
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Wild Oranges | Millie Stope | 1924-01-20 |
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The Signal Tower | Sally Tolliver | 1924-07-19 |
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The Shock | Gertrude Hadley | 1923-06-10 |
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The Village Blacksmith | Alice Hammond | 1922-11-01 |
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The Black Bag | Dorothy Calender | 1922-06-05 |
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The Right That Failed | Constance Talbot | 1922-02-20 |
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The Storm | Manette Fachard | 1922-09-04 |
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His Back Against the Wall | Mary Welling | 1922-05-21 |
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Tracked to Earth | Anna Jones | 1922-03-06 |
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Sentimental Tommy | Lady Alice Pippinworth | 1921-03-26 |
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A Trip to Paradise | Nora O'Brien | 1921-09-05 |
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The Man Who | Mary Turner | 1921-07-04 |
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The Devil Within | Laura | 1921-11-20 |
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The Silver Lining | Evelyn Schofield | 1921-01-29 |
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The Common Sin | 1920-07-01 | |
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The Midnight Bride | Helen Dorr | 1920-01-01 |
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The Dead Line | Julia Weston | 1920-05-09 |
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The Very Idea | Edith Goodhue | 1920-03-15 |
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The Black Circle | Lucy Baird | 1919-10-20 |
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Ruggles of Red Gap | Widow Judson | 1918-02-25 |
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Uneasy Money | Elizabeth Nutcombe | 1918-01-01 |
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Satan's Private Door | June Rose | 1917-03-19 |
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Filling His Own Shoes | Roxana | 1917-06-11 |
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Efficiency Edgar's Courtship | Mary Pierce | 1917-09-03 |
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Skinner's Dress Suit | 1917-02-06 | |
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His Father's Wife | Sally Tyler |
