Virginia Valli (January 18, 1895 â€" 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 (1925), 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.
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 (1925), 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.
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