- Born Name: Virginia McSweeney
- Birthday: 1898-06-10 (Year-Month-Day)
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Virginia Valli, 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 would continue to appear in films throughout the 1920s. 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, she quit films after making the quickie Night Life in Reno, in 1931.Valli was first 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.[edit] ReferencesElyria, 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.[edit] External linksWikimedia Commons has media related to: Virginia ValliVirginia Valli at the Internet Movie DatabaseVirginia Valli at the TCM Movie DatabasePersondataNameValli, VirginiaAlternative namesMcSweeney, VirginiaShort descriptionActorDate of birthJune 10, 1898Place of birthChicago, Illinois, U.S.Date of deathSeptember 24, 1968Place of deathPalm Springs, California, U.S.This article about a United States film actor or actress born in the 1890s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · eRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_ValliCategories: American film actors | American silent film actors | Deaths from stroke | American people of Irish descent | People from Chicago, Illinois | People from Palm Springs, California | 1898 births | 1968 deaths | American film actor, 1890s birth stubsHidden categories: Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutschEspañolFrançaisSuomi This page was last modified on 27 November 2010 at 09:06.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();