Virginia Valli

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 Storm
Movie

The Storm

1922

as Manette Fachard

The Lady Who Lied
Movie

The Lady Who Lied

1925

as Fay Kennion

Evening Clothes
Movie

Evening Clothes

1927

as Germaine

The Pleasure Garden
Movie

The Pleasure Garden

1925

as Patsy Brand

Wild Oranges
Movie

Wild Oranges

1924

as Millie Stope

Behind Closed Doors
Movie

Behind Closed Doors

1929

as Nina Laska

The Village Blacksmith
Movie

The Village Blacksmith

1922

as Alice Hammond

Watch Your Wife
Movie

Watch Your Wife

1926

as Claudia Langham

The Shock
Movie

The Shock

1923

as Gertrude Hadley

The Lost Zeppelin
Movie

The Lost Zeppelin

1929

as Miriam Hall

Guilty?
Movie

Guilty?

1930

as Carolyn

East Side, West Side
Movie

East Side, West Side

1927

as Becka Lipvitch

Paid to Love
Movie

Paid to Love

1927

as Gaby

Siege
Movie

Siege

1925

as Frederika

The Signal Tower
Movie

The Signal Tower

1924

as Sally Tolliver

Mister Antonio
Movie

Mister Antonio

1929

as June Ramsey

The Price of Pleasure
Movie

The Price of Pleasure

1925

as Linnie Randall

The Isle of Lost Ships
Movie

The Isle of Lost Ships

1929

as Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick

Night Life in Reno
Movie

Night Life in Reno

1931

as June Wyatt

Flames
Movie

Flames

1926

as Anne Travers

His Back Against the Wall
Movie

His Back Against the Wall

1922

as Mary Welling

Sentimental Tommy
Movie

Sentimental Tommy

1921

as Lady Alice Pippinworth

Up the Ladder
Movie

Up the Ladder

1925

as Jane Cornwall

A Lady of Quality
Movie

A Lady of Quality

1924

as Clorinda Wildairs

A Trip to Paradise
Movie

A Trip to Paradise

1921

as Nora O'Brien

The Midnight Bride
Movie

The Midnight Bride

1920

as Helen Dorr

Ruggles of Red Gap
Movie

Ruggles of Red Gap

1918

as Widow Judson

The Black Bag
Movie

The Black Bag

1922

as Dorothy Calender

The Dead Line
Movie

The Dead Line

1920

as Julia Weston

The Man Who Found Himself
Movie

The Man Who Found Himself

1925

as Nora Brooks

The Very Idea
Movie

The Very Idea

1920

as Edith Goodhue

The Black Circle
Movie

The Black Circle

1919

as Lucy Baird

The Street of Illusion
Movie

The Street of Illusion

1928

as Sylvia Thurston

The Family Upstairs
Movie

The Family Upstairs

1926

as Louise Heller

Marriage
Movie

Marriage

1927

as Marjorie Pope

Ladies Must Dress
Movie

Ladies Must Dress

1927

as Eve

The Man Who
Movie

The Man Who

1921

as Mary Turner

The Devil Within
Movie

The Devil Within

1921

as Laura

The Silver Lining
Movie

The Silver Lining

1921

as Evelyn Schofield

The Confidence Man
Movie

The Confidence Man

1924

as Margaret Leland

K - The Unknown
Movie

K - The Unknown

1924

as Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse

Judgement Of The Hills
Movie

Judgement Of The Hills

1927

as Margaret Dix

The Right That Failed
Movie

The Right That Failed

1922

as Constance Talbot

Filling His Own Shoes
Movie

Filling His Own Shoes

1917

as Roxana

His Father's Wife
Movie

His Father's Wife

as Sally Tyler

The Common Sin
Movie

The Common Sin

1920

In Every Woman's Life
Movie

In Every Woman's Life

1924

as Sara Langford

Stage Madness
Movie

Stage Madness

1927

as Madame Lamphier

Uneasy Money
Movie

Uneasy Money

1918

as Elizabeth Nutcombe

Skinner's Dress Suit
Movie

Skinner's Dress Suit

1917

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship
Movie

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship

1917

as Mary Pierce

Tracked to Earth
Movie

Tracked to Earth

1922

as Anna Jones

Satan's Private Door
Movie

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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