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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 10, 1898
Died
September 24, 1968
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Virginia McSweeney
Virginia Valli
3.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.4
Mãe
Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres
1983
2.7
Se Segura, Malandro!
1978
0.0
Rua Descalça
1971
3.9
June Wyatt
Night Life in Reno
1931
0.0
Carolyn
Guilty?
1930
4.8
Miriam Hall
The Lost Zeppelin
1929
0.0
Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick
The Isle of Lost Ships
1929
5.0
June Ramsey
Mister Antonio
1929
0.0
Nina Laska
Behind Closed Doors
1929
0.0
Eve
Ladies Must Dress
1927
Credits
Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres
as Mãe
1983
5.4
Se Segura, Malandro!
1978
2.7
Rua Descalça
1971
0.0
Night Life in Reno
as June Wyatt
1931
3.9
Guilty?
as Carolyn
1930
0.0
The Lost Zeppelin
as Miriam Hall
1929
4.8
The Isle of Lost Ships
as Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick
1929
0.0
Mister Antonio
as June Ramsey
1929
5.0
Behind Closed Doors
as Nina Laska
1929
0.0
Ladies Must Dress
as Eve
1927
0.0
East Side, West Side
as Becka Lipvitch
1927
7.2
Judgement Of The Hills
as Margaret Dix
1927
0.0
Paid to Love
as Gaby
1927
6.0
Evening Clothes
as Germaine
1927
0.0
Marriage
as Marjorie Pope
1927
0.0
Stage Madness
as Madame Lamphier
1927
0.0
Flames
as Anne Travers
1926
0.0
The Family Upstairs
as Louise Heller
1926
0.0
Watch Your Wife
as Claudia Langham
1926
0.0
The Pleasure Garden
as Patsy Brand
1925
5.3
Siege
as Frederika
1925
0.0
The Man Who Found Himself
as Nora Brooks
1925
0.0
The Lady Who Lied
as Fay Kennion
1925
0.0
Up the Ladder
as Jane Cornwall
1925
4.2
The Price of Pleasure
as Linnie Randall
1925
0.0
K - The Unknown
as Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse
1924
0.0
In Every Woman's Life
as Sara Langford
1924
0.0
The Signal Tower
as Sally Tolliver
1924
5.2
The Confidence Man
as Margaret Leland
1924
0.0
Wild Oranges
as Millie Stope
1924
6.3
A Lady of Quality
as Clorinda Wildairs
1924
0.0
The Shock
as Gertrude Hadley
1923
5.1
The Village Blacksmith
as Alice Hammond
1922
5.3
The Storm
as Manette Fachard
1922
0.0
The Black Bag
as Dorothy Calender
1922
0.0
His Back Against the Wall
as Mary Welling
1922
0.0
Tracked to Earth
as Anna Jones
1922
0.0
The Right That Failed
as Constance Talbot
1922
0.0
The Devil Within
as Laura
1921
0.0
A Trip to Paradise
as Nora O'Brien
1921
0.0
The Man Who
as Mary Turner
1921
0.0
Sentimental Tommy
as Lady Alice Pippinworth
1921
4.0
The Silver Lining
as Evelyn Schofield
1921
0.0
The Common Sin
1920
0.0
The Dead Line
as Julia Weston
1920
0.0
The Very Idea
as Edith Goodhue
1920
0.0
The Midnight Bride
as Helen Dorr
1920
0.0
The Black Circle
as Lucy Baird
1919
0.0
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Widow Judson
1918
0.0
Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
as Mary Pierce
1917
5.0
Skinner's Dress Suit
1917
0.0
His Father's Wife
as Sally Tyler
N/A
0.0