Virginia Valli
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| Virginia Valli | |
| Birth name | Virginia McSweeney |
| Born | June 10, 1898 Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | September 24, 1968 Palm Springs, California |
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 in 1917. Back in the theater, it was three years more years before she was a leading lady in Hollywood to Bert Lytell, by which time her name had been changed to Virginia Valli.
Valli would continue to appear in films throughout the decade. She also would be an established star at the Universal studio by the mid-1920s. The bulk of her films would be between 1924 and 1927. In 1925 Valli performed in The Man Who Found Himself with Thomas Meighan. The production was made at a Long Island, New York studio. Among these movies was Paid To Love (1927), with William Powell, and Evening Clothes (1927), which featured Adolphe Menjou.
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, her last film at Tiffany Studios was The Lost Zeppelin (1929).
Valli was 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. She had no children.
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- Elyria, Ohio Chronicle Telegram, Virginia Valli, ex-actress, dies, September 25, 1968, Page 40.
- Madison, Wisconsin Capitol Times, Borne On The Wings Of The Storm Valli-Latest Star On The Movie Horizon, Saturday Afternoon, September 16, 1922, Page 4.
- Oakland, California Tribune, Virginia Valli Starts Work In Eastern Studio, June 21, 1925, Page 75.
