Virginia Valli
Known for Acting · 53 credits
- Born
- 1898-06-10
- Died
- 1968-09-24
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Virginia McSweeney
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.
Known For
Movies (53)
The Lady Who Lied
1925
as Fay Kennion
The Storm
1922
as Manette Fachard
Evening Clothes
1927
as Germaine
The Pleasure Garden
1925
as Patsy Brand
Behind Closed Doors
1929
as Nina Laska
The Shock
1923
as Gertrude Hadley
East Side, West Side
1927
as Becka Lipvitch
The Village Blacksmith
1922
as Alice Hammond
Wild Oranges
1924
as Millie Stope
The Lost Zeppelin
1929
as Miriam Hall
His Back Against the Wall
1922
as Mary Welling
The Price of Pleasure
1925
as Linnie Randall
Guilty?
1930
as Carolyn
Watch Your Wife
1926
as Claudia Langham
The Signal Tower
1924
as Sally Tolliver
Up the Ladder
1925
as Jane Cornwall
Marriage
1927
as Marjorie Pope
Siege
1925
as Frederika
The Man Who Found Himself
1925
as Nora Brooks
Mister Antonio
1929
as June Ramsey
The Isle of Lost Ships
1929
as Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick
Paid to Love
1927
as Gaby
The Midnight Bride
1920
as Helen Dorr
The Street of Illusion
1928
as Sylvia Thurston
A Trip to Paradise
1921
as Nora O'Brien
Night Life in Reno
1931
as June Wyatt
Flames
1926
as Anne Travers
The Family Upstairs
1926
as Louise Heller
Sentimental Tommy
1921
as Lady Alice Pippinworth
A Lady of Quality
1924
as Clorinda Wildairs
Ruggles of Red Gap
1918
as Widow Judson
The Dead Line
1920
as Julia Weston
The Very Idea
1920
as Edith Goodhue
The Silver Lining
1921
as Evelyn Schofield
The Confidence Man
1924
as Margaret Leland
The Devil Within
1921
as Laura
The Black Circle
1919
as Lucy Baird
The Right That Failed
1922
as Constance Talbot
The Common Sin
1920
Ladies Must Dress
1927
as Eve
The Black Bag
1922
as Dorothy Calender
His Father's Wife
as Sally Tyler
Uneasy Money
1918
as Elizabeth Nutcombe
The Man Who
1921
as Mary Turner
In Every Woman's Life
1924
as Sara Langford
Judgement Of The Hills
1927
as Margaret Dix
K - The Unknown
1924
as Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse
Filling His Own Shoes
1917
as Roxana
Stage Madness
1927
as Madame Lamphier
Skinner's Dress Suit
1917
Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
1917
as Mary Pierce
Tracked to Earth
1922
as Anna Jones
Satan's Private Door
1917
as June Rose
About 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… With 53 credits spanning from 1917 to 1931, Virginia Valli has appeared in 53 films and 0 TV shows.
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- The Lady Who Lied (1925) — as Fay Kennion
- The Storm (1922) — as Manette Fachard
- Evening Clothes (1927) — as Germaine
- The Pleasure Garden (1925) — as Patsy Brand
- Behind Closed Doors (1929) — as Nina Laska
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