Virginia Valli

Virginia Valli (b. June 10, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois - d. September 24, 1968 in Palm Springs, California) was a major silent film star.

Valli had gotten her start in Milwaukee with a stock company. She also did some film work with Essanay Studios in 1917 Chicago. Back in the theater, it was three years more years before she was a leading lady in Hollywood to Bert Lytell. Valli would continue to appear in films throughout the decade. 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. While she had no trouble adjusting to sound in her her first talking picture, The Isle of Lost Ships in 1929, her big salary and declining came a halt to end her film career. Unable to find a suitable studio, her last film at Tiffany Studios was The Lost Zeppelin in 1929. In 1931, she then married Charles Farrell and retired from the screen to live in Beverly Hills before moving to Palm Springs.