Virginia Valli

Virginia Valli

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.

  • Title : Virginia Valli
  • Popularity : 2.078
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1898-06-10
  • Place of Birth : Chicago, Illinois, USA
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  • Also Known As : Virginia McSweeney
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Virginia Valli Movies

  • 1926
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    Flames

    Flames

    1 1926 HD

    Railroad builder James Travers (George Nichols) wants his pretty daughter, Anne (Virginia Valli), to marry Herbert Landis, a young engineer (Eugene...

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  • 1920
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    The Dead Line

    The Dead Line

    1 1920 HD

    Although a feud between the Harlan and Boone families has been raging for years, Mollie Powell, the Harlan's stepdaughter, is secretly in love with...

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  • 1927
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    The Pleasure Garden

    The Pleasure Garden

    5.228 1927 HD

    Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill...

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  • 1920
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    The Common Sin

    The Common Sin

    1 1920 HD

    Wall Street financier Frederick Searles goes bankrupt, prompting his mercenary wife to marry their eldest daughter Needa to the wealthy, disreputable...

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  • 1927
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    Paid to Love

    Paid to Love

    6 1927 HD

    An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore up the country's weak economy in order to maximize the...

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  • 1923
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    The Shock

    The Shock

    5.1 1923 HD

    A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love...

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  • 1918
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    Ruggles of Red Gap

    Ruggles of Red Gap

    1 1918 HD

    Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a...

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  • 1927
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    East Side, West Side

    East Side, West Side

    7.2 1927 HD

    Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that fully exploits star George O’Brien’s...

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  • 1922
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    The Village Blacksmith

    The Village Blacksmith

    5.3 1922 HD

    (survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom...

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  • 1929
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    The Lost Zeppelin

    The Lost Zeppelin

    4.8 1929 HD

    Explorers to the South Pole in an airship Zeppelin crash in the frozen Antarctic and must struggle for survival in the land of eternal snow and ice.

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  • 1920
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    The Midnight Bride

    The Midnight Bride

    1 1920 HD

    While waiting on a New York park bench for the return of her friends, country girl Jeanne Sterling meets Forrest Chenoweth, a rich young wastrel who,...

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  • 1924
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    The Signal Tower

    The Signal Tower

    5.2 1924 HD

    A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a...

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  • 1971
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    Rua Descalça

    Rua Descalça

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1929
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    Mister Antonio

    Mister Antonio

    5 1929 HD

    Antonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and money in a disreputable bar. Tony recognizes the man as...

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  • 1930
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    Guilty?

    Guilty?

    1 1930 HD

    A Senator, accused of bribery on circumstantial evidence and sent to prison, decides to commit suicide so that his daughter will feel free to marry...

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  • 1924
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    Wild Oranges

    Wild Oranges

    6.3 1924 HD

    Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them -...

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  • 1922
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    His Back Against the Wall

    His Back Against the Wall

    1 1922 HD

    Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he...

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  • 1922
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    Tracked to Earth

    Tracked to Earth

    1 1922 HD

    A railroad detective is falsely accused by a rancher's daughter Virginia Valli of being a notorious outlaw.

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  • 1925
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    Up the Ladder

    Up the Ladder

    5 1925 HD

    An inventor invents a television telephone while going through some love troubles.

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  • 1927
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    Stage Madness

    Stage Madness

    1 1927 HD

    Silent film directed by Victor Schertzinger

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  • 1921
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    The Devil Within

    The Devil Within

    1 1921 HD

    Director Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama

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  • 1927
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    Ladies Must Dress

    Ladies Must Dress

    1 1927 HD

    Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy clothes of their friends. Eve overhears him...

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  • 1931
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    Night Life in Reno

    Night Life in Reno

    4.1 1931 HD

    A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy...

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  • 1925
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    Siege

    Siege

    1 1925 HD

    A stern old woman, who owns the largest factory in a small town and has ruled both the factory and the town with an iron hand, finds herself battling...

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  • 1927
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    Judgement Of The Hills

    Judgement Of The Hills

    1 1927 HD

    An Epic Of Passion Swept Lives! The village hero - boasted and popular- yet a coward. Lauded by every loafer- the friend of vagabonds - yet his...

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  • 1922
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    The Right That Failed

    The Right That Failed

    1 1922 HD

    The Right That Failed

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  • 1921
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    Sentimental Tommy

    Sentimental Tommy

    4 1921 HD

    Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return. Grizel is ostracized by the other children of the town....

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  • 1924
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    The Confidence Man

    The Confidence Man

    1 1924 HD

    Wade is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, down to the small Florida town of Fairfield to make a...

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  • 1924
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    A Lady of Quality

    A Lady of Quality

    1 1924 HD

    Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde....

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  • 1925
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    The Price of Pleasure

    The Price of Pleasure

    1 1925 HD

    Their only sim was that they loved too much: lovers never stop to count the cost. He was a young millionaire and she was only a "Bargain "Basement"...

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  • 1926
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    The Family Upstairs

    The Family Upstairs

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1922
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    The Storm

    The Storm

    1 1922 HD

    When two men, one from the city the other a trapper and a woman are trapped in a cabin in the Northwoods after a massive snowstorm. Through the...

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  • 1924
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    K - The Unknown

    K - The Unknown

    1 1924 HD

    Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious...

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  • 1927
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    Evening Clothes

    Evening Clothes

    1 1927 HD

    Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D'Artois retaliates by moving to the...

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  • 1925
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    The Man Who Found Himself

    The Man Who Found Himself

    1 1925 HD

    Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama

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  • 1925
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    The Lady Who Lied

    The Lady Who Lied

    1 1925 HD

    During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virginia Valli). Their romance is...

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  • 1978
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    Se Segura, Malandro!

    Se Segura, Malandro!

    3 1978 HD

    Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only...

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  • 1929
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    Behind Closed Doors

    Behind Closed Doors

    1 1929 HD

    Behind the doors of a foreign government's embassy in Washington D. C., a group of royal loyalists is attempting to raise funds to aid a...

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  • 1983
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    Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres

    Perdoa-Me Por Me Traíres

    5.3 1983 HD

    Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself, and that her father Gilberto has gone crazy as...

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  • 1917
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    Efficiency Edgar's Courtship

    Efficiency Edgar's Courtship

    5 1917 HD

    Efficiency wins success in business; why not in love? Edgar Bumpus, a rising young man, applies this reasoning to his courtship of Mary Pierce. He...

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  • 1929
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    The Isle of Lost Ships

    The Isle of Lost Ships

    1 1929 HD

    The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitaphone track of effects and music. It was produced...

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