A popular leading lady of the 1920s, Virginia Valli (born McSweeney) had appeared with a Milwaukee stock company prior to making her screen debut with the Chicago-based Selig Polyscope Company in 1915. By 1917, she was a popular ingenue with Essanay, another Chicago producer. She became a top star with Metro in Hollywood, who cast her opposite matinee idol Bert Lytell in several popular melodramas in 1921-1922. Usually considered a victim of sound, Valli actually registered well in her first talkie, Mr. Antonio (1929), and although she was considered a bit stiff and "too English" in The Isle of Lost Ships (1929), her voice recorded well. But no longer in the first bloom of youth by 1930, Valli found herself in a no-win position and chose to retire after Night Life in Reno (1931), a low-budget offering from small-scale Artclass Pictures. That same year she married handsome leading man Charles Farrell and would, as Mrs. Farrell, become the "first lady" of Palm Springs, CA.
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Guilty?
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1930 | |||
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Behind Closed Doors
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1929 | |||
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The Isle of Lost Ships
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1929 | |||
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The Lost Zeppelin
Actor |
1929 | |||
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Street of Illusion
Actor |
1928 | |||
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The Escape
Actor |
1928 | |||
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East Side, West Side
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Evening Clothes
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Judgment of the Hills
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Ladies Must Dress
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Marriage
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Paid to Love
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Stage Madness
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Family Upstairs
Actor |
1926 | |||
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Flames
Actor |
1926 | |||
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Watch Your Wife
Actor |
1926 | |||
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Lady Who Lied
Actor |
1925 | |||
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Siege
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1925 | |||
| 1925 | ||||
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The Pleasure Garden
Actor |
1925 | |||
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The Price of Pleasure
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1925 | |||
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Up the Ladder
Actor |
1925 | |||
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Confidence Man
Actor |
1924 | |||
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K - the Unknown
Actor |
1924 | |||
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Wild Oranges
Actor |
1924 | |||
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A Lady of Quality
Actor |
1923 | |||
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The Shock
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1923 | |||
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Black Bag
Actor |
1922 | |||
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The Storm
Actor |
1922 | |||
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Village Blacksmith
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1922 | |||
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Devil Within
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1921 | |||
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Sentimental Tommy
Actor |
1921 | |||
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Trip to Paradise
Actor |
1921 | |||
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Very Idea
Actor |
1920 | |||
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Actor |
1918 | |||
| 1917 | ||||
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Skinner's Dress Suit
Actor |
1917 |