Virginia Belle Pearson (March , â€" June , ) was an American stage
and film actress. She made fifty-one films in a career which extended
from until .She was born on March , in Anchorage, Kentucky to
parents Joseph F. Pearson and Mary Alice Calloway.She had one younger
brother, Harvey Thompson Pearson. Virginia was also the granddaughter
of Precious Martha Grable Pearson (actress Betty Grable's great aunt).
Virginia worked for a brief time as an assistant in the public library
in Louisville, Kentucky after completing school. She was famous in her
hometown Louisville playhouse performances. Pearson trained in the
tradition of the stars of the American stage, and played in stock
productions in Washington, D.C. and New York City. In New York she
played the heroine in Hypocrisy, a story which laid bare "the shame of
society." She was promoted by William Fox of Fox Film Corporation for
the same kind of strong vamp parts as those played by Theda Bara.
Among her movies is Blazing Love (), Wildness of Youth (), The Vital
Question (), Sister Against Sister (), The Red Kimona (), Wizard of Oz
(), and The Phantom of the Opera ().
and film actress. She made fifty-one films in a career which extended
from until .She was born on March , in Anchorage, Kentucky to
parents Joseph F. Pearson and Mary Alice Calloway.She had one younger
brother, Harvey Thompson Pearson. Virginia was also the granddaughter
of Precious Martha Grable Pearson (actress Betty Grable's great aunt).
Virginia worked for a brief time as an assistant in the public library
in Louisville, Kentucky after completing school. She was famous in her
hometown Louisville playhouse performances. Pearson trained in the
tradition of the stars of the American stage, and played in stock
productions in Washington, D.C. and New York City. In New York she
played the heroine in Hypocrisy, a story which laid bare "the shame of
society." She was promoted by William Fox of Fox Film Corporation for
the same kind of strong vamp parts as those played by Theda Bara.
Among her movies is Blazing Love (), Wildness of Youth (), The Vital
Question (), Sister Against Sister (), The Red Kimona (), Wizard of Oz
(), and The Phantom of the Opera ().
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