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person_profile-Virginia Pearson

Virginia Pearson Died at age: 72

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Virginia Pearson

Date of Birth:

Mar 07, 1886

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jun 06, 1958

Biography of

Virginia Pearson

    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.

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Virginia Pearson

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Filmography of

Virginia Pearson

Found 18 Movies in total

Back Street

Minor Role (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

The Primrose Path

Marie Randeau ( Actor )

... 1931

Smilin' Guns

Mrs. van Smythe ( Actor )

... 1929

The Power of Silence

Mrs. Wright ( Actor )

... 1928

The Actress

Mrs. Telfer ( Actor )

... 1928

What Price Beauty?

Mary ( Actor )

... 1928

Atta Boy

Madame Carlton ( Actor )

... 1926

Silence

Millie Burke ( Actor )

... 1926

Lightning Hutch

Janet Thornwall ( Actor )

... 1926

The Red Kimona

Mrs. Beverly Fontaine ( Actor )

... 1925

The Phantom of the Opera

Carlotta ( Actor )

... 1925

The Wizard of Oz

Lady Vishuss ( Actor )

... 1925

A Daughter of France

Louise de Ciron ( Actor )

... 1918

A Royal Romance

The Princess Sylvia ( Actor )

... 1917

Sister Against Sister

Anne / Katherine ( Actor )

... 1917

Daredevil Kate

Kate ( Actor )

... 1916

Writing on the Wall

Barbara Lawrence ( Actor )

... 1916

The Stain

Stevens' Daughter ( Actor )

... 1914