Virginia ValliFilmography

The Isle of Lost Ships

Actors: Virginia Valli, Jason Robards, Sr., Clarissa Selwynne, Noah Beery, Sr.

Synopsis: Released in both silent and sound versions, Isle of Lost Ships stars Jason Robards Sr. as Frank Howard, an accused criminal being transported to prison by no-nonsense cop Jackson (Robert Emmet O'Connor). While sailing towards their destination, prisoner and policeman are swept up in a storm at sea Read More

The Lost Zeppelin

Actors: Conway Tearle, Virginia Valli, Ricardo Cortez, Duke Martin, Kathryn McGuire

Synopsis: The Lost Zeppelin offers a bonanza of special effects and art-deco sets with a nickel's worth of plot. The film begins at a banquet celebrating an upcoming dirigible expedition to Antarctica. Explorer Donald Hall (Conway Tearle) knows that his protégé, lieutenant Tom Armstrong (Ricardo Cortez) is Read More

Behind Closed Doors

Actors: Virginia Valli, Gaston Glass, Andreas de Segurola

Synopsis: Behind Closed Doors was one of the last silent films released by Columbia Pictures. Set in a mythical Slavic country, the story concerns the efforts by a group of royalists to restore their deposed king to the throne. Opposing this scheme is secret agent Virginia Valli, whose motives seem very Read More

The Escape

Actors: William Russell, Virginia Valli, Nancy Drexel, George Meeker, William Demarest

Synopsis: This second filmization of Paul Armstrong's play Escape is a bleak study of slum life. Virginia Valli plays May Joyce, the daughter of a scummy bootlegger who falls in love with medical intern Jerry Magee (William Russell). When May is forced to go to work in a sleazy nightclub, Jerry becomes so Read More

Street of Illusion

Actors: Virginia Valli, Harry Meyers, Ian Keith

Synopsis: Street of Illusion was based on a story by once-popular playwright Channing Pollock. Ian Keith is well-cast as a pompous ham actor who is jealous of his rival Kenneth Thompson's success. Feeling persecuted, Keith begins to harbor thoughts of eliminating Thompson through the most drastic means Read More

The Pleasure Garden

Actors: Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty

Synopsis: After several collaborative efforts, Alfred Hitchcock made his solo directorial debut in the German-British co-production The Pleasure Garden. Based on the novel by Oliver Sandys, it's the tale of two chorus girls, Patsy (Virginia Valli) and Jill (Carmelita Geraghty). The comparatively virtuous Read More

Judgment of the Hills

Actors: Virginia Valli, Frankie Darro, Orville Caldwell

Synopsis: Although Virginia Valli is given top billing in this drama about World War I, Orville Caldwell has the biggest role, and the performance of nine-year-old Frankie Darro eclipses them both. Caldwell plays Brant Dennison, a roustabout inhabitant of the Kentucky hills. Although he is a hard drinker Read More

Stage Madness

Actors: Virginia Valli, Virginia Bradford, Richard Walling

Synopsis: Upon becoming a wife and mother, prima ballerina Mme. Lamphier (Virginia Valli) gives up her stellar career. But she can't get the theater out of her blood, and soon our heroine is training for a comeback. Violently opposed to this, Mme. Lamphier's tyrannical husband walks out on her, taking their Read More

Marriage

Actors: Virginia Valli, Gladys McConnell, Lawford Davidson

Synopsis: Believe it or not: The domestic drama Marriage was based on a story by H.G. Wells. Alan Durant plays scientist R.A.G. Trafford, whose idealism loses him one high-paying job after another. Durant's ambitious wife Marjori (Virginia Valli) talks Trafford into selling his latest revolutionary Read More

Ladies Must Dress

Actors: Virginia Valli, Lawrence Gray, Hallam Cooley, Nancy Carroll, Earl Foxe

Synopsis: Victor Heerman wore two creative hats during the filming of Ladies Must Dress; not only did he direct the picture, but he also dreamed up the storyline. Virginia Valli stars as Eve, the plain-Jane secretary of George Ward Jr. (Lawrence Grey). Secretly in love with her boss, Eve can only sit on the Read More

Paid to Love

Actors: George O'Brien, Virginia Valli, John Farrell MacDonald, Thomas Jefferson, William Powell

Synopsis: It has often been reported that Howard Hawks tried and failed to create an "art" film with Paid to Love, only to return to his traditional no-nonsense cinematic approach when the film failed at the box-office. While it is true that Hawks adopted a "Germanic" approach, replete with languid tracking Read More

East Side, West Side

Actors: George O'Brien, Virginia Valli, John Farrell MacDonald, Dore Davidson

Synopsis: Not a remake of the 1923 film of the same name, East Side, West Side stars George O'Brien as John Breen, who is orphaned early on when his mother and stepfather are killed in a barge accident. With nothing holding him back, John heads to the Big City he's always dreamed about. Here he becomes a Read More

Evening Clothes

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Virginia Valli, Noah Beery, Sr., Louise Brooks, Lido Manetti

Synopsis: It stands to reason that the sartorially splendid Adolphe Menjou would star in a picture called Evening Clothes. At the beginning of the film, however,Menjou is crude, shabbily dressed French farmer Lucien D'Artois. Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine (Virginia Valli) marries D'Artois Read More

Watch Your Wife

Actors: Virginia Valli, Pat O'Malley, Nat Carr, Helen Lee Worthing, Albert Conti

Synopsis: When his wife Claudia (Virginia Valli) files for divorce, writer James Langham (Pat O'Malley) is stuck with the cooking and the housework. What to do? Langham hires a surrogate wife, Gladys Moon (Helen Lee Worthing), to handle the domestic responsibilities -- with the understanding that there'll Read More

Flames

Actors: Virginia Valli, Eugene O'Brien, Jean Hersholt, Bryant Washburn

Synopsis: This melodrama -- one of the last gasps from Associated Exhibitors -- features an excellent cast, with Jean Hersholt taking most of the kudos. Railroad builder James Travers (George Nichols) wants his pretty daughter, Anne (Virginia Valli), to marry Herbert Landis, a young engineer (Eugene Read More

Family Upstairs

Actors: Virginia Valli, Allan Simpson, John Farrell MacDonald, Lillian Elliott

Synopsis: The Family Upstairs is based on the same-named play by Harry Delf. The titular family is comprised of losers and layabouts, all except for the daughter, pretty Louise Hellor (Virginia Valli). When Louise falls in love with handsome Charles Grant (Allan Simpson), she invites the boy home for dinner Read More

The Price of Pleasure

Actors: Virginia Valli, Norman Kerry, Louise Fazenda, Kate Lester, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This ordinary romantic programmer starred Universal regulars Norman Kerry and Virginia Valli. Linnie Randall, a shopgirl (Valli), is bored with her humdrum life. Her complaints are overheard by the wealthy Garry Schuyler (Kerry), who is disguised as a mechanic. He asks her out to dinner and, to Read More

Siege

Actors: Virginia Valli, Mary Alden, Eugene O'Brien, Marc MacDermott, Harry Lorraine

Synopsis: Mary Alden stands out as the powerful matriarch in this drama. Elderly Aunt Augusta (Alden) runs the great Ruyland Iron Works. Stock in the iron works is owned by the other members of the Ruyland clan, all of whom do Aunt Augusta's bidding. When she decides that Kenyon Ruyland (Eugene O'Brien) Read More

Up the Ladder

Actors: Virginia Valli, Forrest Stanley, Margaret Livingston, Holmes Herbert, George Fawcett

Synopsis: This routine domestic drama was based on a stage play by Owen Davis. Jane Cornwall, a wealthy heiress (Virginia Valli), secretly uses her fortune to help her sweetheart, James Van Clinton (Forrest Stanley), perfect his invention -- a "Tele-Vision-Scope" (a device which enables people to see each Read More

The Man Who Found Himself

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Virginia Valli, Frank Morgan, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: Tom Macaulay (Thomas Meighan) and his brother Edwin (Russell Griffin) both hold positions at the bank belonging to their father (Charles Stevenson). Edwin takes forty thousand dollars from the bank to play the stock market, but he loses it all. Lon Morris, a rival banker (Frank Morgan), tips off Read More

Lady Who Lied

Actors: Lewis Stone, Virginia Valli, Nita Naldi, Edward Earle, Leo White

Synopsis: During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virgina Valli). Their romance is derailed when she goes over to his apartment and finds the vampy Fifi (Nita Naldi) there. Fay goes down to Algiers, where she marries a former Read More

K - the Unknown

Actors: Virginia Valli, Percy Marmont, Margarita Fisher, John Roche

Synopsis: Sidney Page (Virginia Valli) is studying to be a nurse. All the young men are in love with her in the small town where she lives, but she becomes fascinated with K. LeMoyne (Percy Marmont), the mysterious stranger who moves into the boarding house belonging to her Aunt Harriet (Myrtle Vane). Read More

Confidence Man

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Virginia Valli, Laurence Wheat, Charles Dow Clark, Helen Lindroth

Synopsis: Wade (George Nash) is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan (Thomas Meighan) and Larry Maddox (Laurence Wheat), down to the small Florida town of Fairfield to make a sale to the miserly Godfrey Queritt (Charles Dow Clark). When Corvan discovers that Sunday school Read More

Wild Oranges

Actors: Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Charles A. Post

Synopsis: It's a pity that there are apparently no longer any public copies available of this suspense drama by King Vidor because at the time of its release, its sophisticated approach to filmmaking impressed critics and fans alike. It takes place at a bay near the Georgia swamps, where John Woolfolk Read More

A Lady of Quality

Actors: Virginia Valli, Lionel Barrymore, Margaret Seddon, Peggy Cartwright, Milton Sills

Synopsis: Running five reels, Famous Players' The Lady of Quality was a faithful adaptation of the same-named theatrical drama. Repeating her stage role of Clorinda was the magnificent Cecilia Loftus, while Geraldine O'Brien, House Peters, Hal Clarendon, Peter Lang and Dave Wall offered excellent support. Read More

The Shock

Actors: Virginia Valli, Lon Chaney

Synopsis: This tale of a crook's reform takes place in the San Francisco of the early 1900s. Predictably, Lon Chaney plays a crook and a misshapen cripple (the type of role almost expected of him at this point in his career). Anne Vincent, better known as "Queen Anne" (Christine Mayo), sends Wilse Dilling (Chaney Read More

Village Blacksmith

Actors: William Walling, Virginia True Boardman, Virginia Valli, David Butler

Synopsis: Everybody at Mack Sennett's Keystone studios was expected to do a little bit of everything, which is why bassett-faced comedian Hank Mann both directed and co-starred in the 2-reel laughfest The Village Blacksmith. Burly Tom Kennedy plays the title character, while gawky Polly Moran is cast as Read More

The Storm

Actors: Virginia Valli, Matt Moore, House Peters, Josef Swickard, Frank Lanning

Synopsis: Based on Langdon McCormick's 1919 play, this silent melodrama stars Matt Moore and House Peters as War veterans sharing a cabin in the Canadian Northwest. A French trapper (Josef Swickard) and his daughter (Virginia Valli) seek shelter from both the Northwest Mounted Police and the elements. Read More

Black Bag

Actors: Herbert Rawlinson, Virginia Valli, Bert Roach, Charles King

Synopsis: This mystery is based on the novel by Louis Joseph Vance. While on vacation, Billy Kirkwood (Herbert Rawlinson) meets pretty Dorothy Calender (Virginia Valli) when she dashes alone into the restaurant where he is dining. Dorothy, who is in possession of a valuable necklace, is trying to avoid a Read More

Devil Within

Actors: Dustin Farnum, Virginia Valli, Nigel de Brulier, Bernard J. Durning, Jim Farley

Synopsis: When the brutal Captain Briggs (a miscast Dustin Farnum) destroys a Malay idol, a native witch (Evelyn Selbie) puts a curse on him. From there on in, death follows him. He marries, but his wife dies when their son is born. The son reaches adulthood and weds, but the couple catch a fever and die Read More

Sentimental Tommy

Actors: Gareth Hughes, May McAvoy, Mabel Taliaferro, George Fawcett

Synopsis: Tommy Sandys (Gareth Hughes) is a poor Scottish boy who has an endless imagination. At the age of 16, he comes to the town of Thrums with his sister, Elspeth (Leila Frost). They meet Grizel (May McAvoy), a sweet young girl whose mother is known as the Painted Lady (Mabel Taliaferro). This woman Read More

Trip to Paradise

Actors: Bert Lytell, Virginia Valli, Brinsley Shaw, Eunice Moore, Victory Bateman

Synopsis: Between the time Franz Molnar's play Liliom was first seen on-stage and 1956, when the Rodgers and Hammerstein version, Carousel, hit the movie theaters, this story underwent quite a few incarnations. This silent feature was the first time it appeared onscreen. Whereas Molnar's play took place in Read More

Very Idea

Actors: Virginia Valli

Synopsis: Gilbert and Edith Goodhue (Taylor Holmes and Virginia Valli) are happily married except for one thing -- because of Edith's weak health, it is unlikely that they will ever become parents. They decide to adopt but are talked out of it by a relative who is concerned they will wind up with a Read More

Ruggles of Red Gap

Actors: Taylor Holmes, Frederick Burton, Virginia Valli

Synopsis: In a poker game, an English aristocrat (Lawrence D'Orsay) loses his valet, Marmaduke Ruggles (Taylor Holmes), to an American. Ruggles is then passed over to the American's Cousin Egbert (Frederick Burton) and taken to Red Gap, Arizona. Cousin Egbert introduces him as "Colonel Marmaduke Ruggles Read More

Skinner's Dress Suit

Synopsis: This simple scenario is based on a story by Henry Irving Dodge which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Skinner (Bryant Washburn) is one of those office drudges who works hard but never gets any recognition and who timidly shrinks from his employer -- he's the kind of guy who grows old and Read More

Efficiency Edgar's Courtship

Actors: Virginia Valli

Synopsis: Clarence Buddington Kelland's magazine creation "Efficiency" Edgar Bumpus comes to life in this lighthearted 5-reeler. Taylor Holmes, not exactly in flush of youth but still able to convey innocence and naivete, plays a time-motion expert (possibly a takeoff of the Frank Gilbreth character of Cheaper by the Dozen Read More