Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Virginia Pearson is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 7 march 1886 at Anchorage (USA)

Virginia Pearson

Virginia Pearson
If you like this person, let us know!
Birth name Virginia Belle Pearson
Nationality USA
Birth 7 march 1886 at Anchorage (USA)
Death 6 june 1958 (at 72 years) at Hollywood (USA)

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.

Biography

À l'âge d'or du cinéma muet, elle connut une immense célébrité sous le nom d'Hérétique de l'écran et régna avec Theda Bara et quelques autres comme l'une des plus sublimes vamps d'Hollywood. Elle décida de se dégager de ce personnage après la Première Guerre mondiale, mais le public se détourna d'elle. En 1924, possédant jusqu'alors une immense fortune, elle dut déclarer faillite. Par la suite, elle fut réduite à de petits rôles et forcée de vivre avec son mari, l'acteur Sheldon Lewis, dans la chambre d'un petit hôtel d'Hollywood, où elle décéda en 1958, un mois après ce dernier.

Usually with

Larry Semon
Larry Semon
(1 films)
Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney
(2 films)
Tom Reed
Tom Reed
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Virginia Pearson (12 films)

Display filmography as list

Actress

Back Street, 1h33
Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, John Boles, June Clyde, George Meeker, Zasu Pitts, Shirley Grey
Roles Minor Role (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.4905353.4905353.4905353.4905353.490535
Based on a best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst, Back Street concerns an ill-starred couple, Rae (Irene Dunne) and Walter (John Boles). This was the first of three film versions of Hurst's story; remakes were released in 1941 and 1961.
Smilin' Guns, 1h
Directed by Henry MacRae
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Hoot Gibson, Blanche Mehaffey, Virginia Pearson, Leo White, Walter Brennan, James Bradbury Jr
Roles Mrs. van Smythe

Cowboy Jack "Dirty Neck" Purvin travels to San Francisco to learn how to become a refined gentleman in order to impress Helen van Smythe. Upon his return from San Francisco, Purvin is forced to shed his training to save van Smythe from the grasp of a count, and her mother from a jewel thief.
The Big City
Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Matthew Betz, Marceline Day, John George, James Murray
Roles Tennessee
Rating68% 3.4091353.4091353.4091353.4091353.409135
Propriétaire d'une boîte de nuit, le gangster Chuck Collins a trouvé un bon moyen pour éloigner les soupçons de la police : dissimuler son butin dans la boutique d'une voisine. Mais Collins a aussi des problèmes avec son rival Curly, le chef d'une bande de gangsters.
Mum's the Word, 24minutes
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charley Chase, Virginia Pearson, Martha Sleeper, Anders Randolf
Roles The Wife (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.0931753.0931753.0931753.0931753.093175
The Phantom of the Opera, 1h33
Directed by Edward Sedgwick, Lon Chaney, Rupert Julian, Ernst Laemmle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis
Roles Carlotta
Rating74% 3.746233.746233.746233.746233.74623
Based on the general release version of 1925, which has additional scenes and sequences in different order than the existing reissue print.
The Wizard of Oz, 1h20
Directed by Larry Semon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Le pays d'Oz, Children's films
Actors Larry Semon, Bryant Washburn, Dorothy Dwan, Virginia Pearson, Oliver Hardy, Charles Murray
Roles Lady Vishuss
Rating49% 2.461512.461512.461512.461512.46151
A toymaker (Semon) reads L. Frank Baum's book to his granddaughter. The Land of Oz is ruled by Prime Minister Kruel (Josef Swickard), aided by Ambassador Wikked (Otto Lederer), Lady Vishuss (Virginia Pearson), and the Wizard (Charles Murray), a "medicine-show hokum hustler". When the discontented people, led by Prince Kynd (Bryant Washburn), demand the return of the princess, who disappeared while a baby many years before, so she can be crowned their rightful ruler, Kruel has the Wizard distract them with a parlor trick: making a female impersonator (Frederick Ko Vert) appear out of a seemingly empty basket. Kruel sends Wikked on a mission.
Wildness of Youth
Origin USA
Actors Virginia Pearson, Mary Anderson (actrice, 1897-1986), Harry T. Morey, Thurston Hall, Julia Swayne Gordon, Bobby Connelly
Roles Louise Wesley

Spoiled son Andrew Kane (Joseph Striker) competes with James Surbrun (Harry T. Morey) for the affections of wild child Julie Grayton (Mary Anderson). Kane is convicted of murdering Surbrun, but later exonerated.
Blazing Love
Directed by Kenean Buel
Genres Drama
Actors Virginia Pearson
Roles Margaret Walsh

The Stain
The Stain (1914)

Directed by Frank Powell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Edward José, Theda Bara, Virginia Pearson, Creighton Hale
Roles Stevens' Daughter
Rating60% 3.0459953.0459953.0459953.0459953.045995

Scriptwriter