From Wikipedia 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 continued to appear in films throughout the 1920s She was an established star at the Universal studio by the mid1920s In 1924 she was the female lead in King Vidors Southern Gothic Wild Oranges a film now being seen after several decades of film vault obscurity She also appeared in the romantic comedy Every Womans 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 Hitchcocks debut feature The Pleasure Garden 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 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
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