Virginia Valli

Birth Name:

Virginia McSweeney

Birth Date:

January 18, 1895

Birth Place:

Chicago, Illinois

Death Date:

September 24, 1968

Place of Death:

Palm Springs, California

Age:

Cause of Death:

Stroke

Cemetery Name:

Welwood Murray Cemetery

Claim to Fame:

Show Business

Associates:

Charles Farrell

Virginia Valli 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. Valli 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 recovered from 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." Most of her films were made between 1924 and 1927, and included 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. Never a top star, but always busy, Valli had made over 30 films by 1928 and had co-starred with many important leading men, including Bert Lytel, Lon Chaney, Milton Sills, Thomas Meighan, George O’Brien, and Lloyd Hughes. In addition to Wild Oranges, Valli's other standout films include The Signal Tower (1924), directed by Clarence Brown, costarring Rockcliffe Fellowes and Wallace Beery, and The Pleasure Garden (1925), an early film by director Alfred Hitchcock, made in England for Gainsborough Studios.

Fun Fact

Virginia Valli’s career declined quickly with the coming of sound. Her final film was Night Life in Reno (1931) for Supreme Feature Films, a minor producing company. In 1931, she married film star Charles Farrell, whose screen career was also beginning a decline, and retired. They moved to Palm Springs and opened The Raquet Club, which for many years was one of the premier sites for lodging and entertainment in the desert.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Welwood Murray Cemetery

471 W. Chino Drive

Palm Springs, California, 92262

USA

North America

Map:

Welwood Murray Cemetery in Palm Springs, CA

Grave Location:

Section 10, Lot F, Grave 1

Grave Location Description

Walk in the back gate (closest to the mountains) and turn right, go past 2 trees, and just past the second tree you will find both Virginia and her husband Charles Farrell in the second row from the wall.