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Virginia Pearson
Anchorage, Kentucky, USA
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 1…
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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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1932
Back Street
Movie Minor Role (uncredited)
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1931
The Primrose Path
Movie Marie Randeau
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1929
Smilin' Guns
Movie Mrs. van Smythe
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1928
The Power of Silence
Movie Mrs. Wright
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1928
The Actress
Movie Mrs. Telfer
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1928
What Price Beauty?
Movie Mary
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1927
Driven from Home
Movie
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1927
Lucky Fool
Movie
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1926
Atta Boy
Movie Madame Carlton
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1926
Mum's the Word
Movie The Wife
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1926
Silence
Movie Millie Burke
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1926
Lightning Hutch
Movie Janet Thornwall
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1926
The Taxi Mystery
Movie Mrs. Blaine Jameson
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1925
The Red Kimona
Movie Mrs. Beverly Fontaine
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1925
The Phantom of the Opera
Movie Carlotta
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1925
The Wizard of Oz
Movie Lady Vishuss
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1923
A Prince of a King
Movie Queen Claudia
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1922
Wildness of Youth
Movie Louise Wesley
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1919
Impossible Catherine
Movie Catherine Kimberly
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1919
The Bishop's Emeralds
Movie Hester - Lady Cardew
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1919
The Love Auction
Movie Lea Montrose, Mrs. Vanderveer
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1918
Buchanan's Wife
Movie Beatrix Buchanan
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1918
The Queen of Hearts
Movie Pauline Cheraud
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1918
Her Price
Movie Marcia Calhoun
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1918
The Firebrand
Movie Princess Natalya
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1918
A Daughter of France
Movie Louise de Ciron
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1918
Stolen Honor
Movie Virginia Lake
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1917
All for a Husband
Movie Henrietta Downs
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1917
Thou Shalt Not Steal
Movie Mary Bruce
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1917
When False Tongues Speak
Movie Mary Page Walton
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1917
Wrath of Love
Movie Roma Winnet
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1917
A Royal Romance
Movie The Princess Sylvia
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1917
Sister Against Sister
Movie Anne / Katherine
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1916
The War Bride's Secret
Movie Jean MacDougal
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1916
Daredevil Kate
Movie Kate
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1916
Writing on the Wall
Movie Barbara Lawrence
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1916
The Kiss of a Vampire
Movie
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1914
The Stain
Movie Stevens' Daughter
