
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
1922
as Manette Fachard

The Lady Who Lied
1925
as Fay Kennion

Evening Clothes
1927
as Germaine

The Pleasure Garden
1925
as Patsy Brand

Wild Oranges
1924
as Millie Stope

Behind Closed Doors
1929
as Nina Laska

The Village Blacksmith
1922
as Alice Hammond

Watch Your Wife
1926
as Claudia Langham

The Shock
1923
as Gertrude Hadley

The Lost Zeppelin
1929
as Miriam Hall

Guilty?
1930
as Carolyn

East Side, West Side
1927
as Becka Lipvitch

Paid to Love
1927
as Gaby

Siege
1925
as Frederika

The Signal Tower
1924
as Sally Tolliver

Mister Antonio
1929
as June Ramsey

The Price of Pleasure
1925
as Linnie Randall

The Isle of Lost Ships
1929
as Dorothy Whitlock / Renwick

Night Life in Reno
1931
as June Wyatt

Flames
1926
as Anne Travers

His Back Against the Wall
1922
as Mary Welling

Sentimental Tommy
1921
as Lady Alice Pippinworth

Up the Ladder
1925
as Jane Cornwall

A Lady of Quality
1924
as Clorinda Wildairs

A Trip to Paradise
1921
as Nora O'Brien

The Midnight Bride
1920
as Helen Dorr

Ruggles of Red Gap
1918
as Widow Judson

The Black Bag
1922
as Dorothy Calender

The Dead Line
1920
as Julia Weston

The Man Who Found Himself
1925
as Nora Brooks

The Very Idea
1920
as Edith Goodhue

The Black Circle
1919
as Lucy Baird

The Street of Illusion
1928
as Sylvia Thurston

The Family Upstairs
1926
as Louise Heller

Marriage
1927
as Marjorie Pope

Ladies Must Dress
1927
as Eve

The Man Who
1921
as Mary Turner

The Devil Within
1921
as Laura

The Silver Lining
1921
as Evelyn Schofield

The Confidence Man
1924
as Margaret Leland

K - The Unknown
1924
as Sidney Page - a beautiful nurse

Judgement Of The Hills
1927
as Margaret Dix

The Right That Failed
1922
as Constance Talbot
Filling His Own Shoes
1917
as Roxana

His Father's Wife
as Sally Tyler

The Common Sin
1920

In Every Woman's Life
1924
as Sara Langford

Stage Madness
1927
as Madame Lamphier

Uneasy Money
1918
as Elizabeth Nutcombe

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 Storm (1922) — as Manette Fachard
- The Lady Who Lied (1925) — as Fay Kennion
- Evening Clothes (1927) — as Germaine
- The Pleasure Garden (1925) — as Patsy Brand
- Wild Oranges (1924) — as Millie Stope
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