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Virginia Pearson

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1886-03-07

Day of Death

1958-06-06

Place of Birth

Anchorage, Kentucky, USA

Virginia Pearson

Biography

From Wikipedia Virginia Belle Pearson (March 7, 1886 - June 6, 1958) was an American stage and film actress. She made fifty-one films in a career which extended from 1910 until 1932. Born in Anchorage, Kentucky, Pearson worked for a brief time as an assistant in the public library in Louisville, Kentucky after completing school. Pearson trained in the tradition of the stars of the American stage, and played in stock productions in Washington, D.C. and New York City. In New York she played the heroine in Hypocrisy, a story which laid bare "the shame of society." She was promoted by William Fox of Fox Film Corporation for the same kind of strong vamp parts as those played by Theda Bara. Among her movies is Blazing Love (1916), Wildness of Youth (1922), The Vital Question (1916), Sister Against Sister (1917), The Red Kimona (1925), Wizard of Oz (1925), and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). In 1916 Pearson and her husband, movie actor Sheldon Lewis, severed their ties with the Virginia Pearson Producing Company. The couple affiliated themselves with the Independent Productions Company, capitalized at $1,000,000. In 1924 the couple were forced to declare bankruptcy. In 1928, Pearson was legally divorced from Lewis. At the time, it was considered bad box office for screen actresses to be married. However the two remained constant companions., and resided for many years at the old Hollywood Hotel. Later they lived at the Motion Picture Country Hom. Virginia Pearson died of uremic poisoning in Hollywood on June 6, 1958 nearly a month to the day after Sheldon Lewis. She was 72. Funeral services were held at the Pierce Brothers Hollywood Chapel. She was buried with an unmarked grave in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

Filmography (38)

⭐ 6.4 Role: Minor Role (uncredited)

Back Street

1932
⭐ 9.0 Role: Marie Randeau

The Primrose Path

1931
⭐ 8.0 Role: Mrs. van Smythe

Smilin' Guns

1929
⭐ 10.0 Role: Mrs. Wright

The Power of Silence

1928
⭐ 10.0 Role: Mrs. Telfer

The Actress

1928
⭐ 10.0 Role: Mary

What Price Beauty?

1928
⭐ 7.0 Role: Unknown

Driven from Home

1927
No Image
⭐ 10.0 Role: Unknown

Lucky Fool

1927
⭐ 9.0 Role: Madame Carlton

Atta Boy

1926
⭐ 6.1 Role: The Wife

Mum's the Word

1926
⭐ 8.0 Role: Millie Burke

Silence

1926
⭐ 8.0 Role: Janet Thornwall

Lightning Hutch

1926
⭐ 8.0 Role: Mrs. Blaine Jameson

The Taxi Mystery

1926
⭐ 5.8 Role: Mrs. Beverly Fontaine

The Red Kimona

1925
⭐ 7.1 Role: Carlotta

The Phantom of the Opera

1925