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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.
Birth Name
Virginia Belle Pearson
Born
Sunday, 07 March 1886
Died
Friday, 06 June 1958
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Back Street | Minor Role | 1932 |
The Primrose Path | Marie Randeau | 1931 |
The Danger Man | Mres. Blair | 1930 |
Smilin' Guns | Mrs. van Smythe | 1929 |
The Power of Silence | Mrs. Wright | 1928 |
The Actress | Mrs. Telfer | 1928 |
The Big City | Tennessee | 1928 |
What Price Beauty? | Mary | 1928 |
Lucky Fool | 1927 | |
Atta Boy | Madame Carlton | 1926 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Back Street | Minor Role | 1932 |
The Primrose Path | Marie Randeau | 1931 |
The Danger Man | Mres. Blair | 1930 |
Smilin' Guns | Mrs. van Smythe | 1929 |
The Power of Silence | Mrs. Wright | 1928 |
The Actress | Mrs. Telfer | 1928 |
The Big City | Tennessee | 1928 |
What Price Beauty? | Mary | 1928 |
Lucky Fool | 1927 | |
Atta Boy | Madame Carlton | 1926 |
Mum's the Word | The Wife | 1926 |
Silence | Millie Burke | 1926 |
Lightning Hutch | Janet Thornwall | 1926 |
The Red Kimona | Mrs. Fontaine / Mrs. Beverly Fontaine | 1925 |
The Phantom of the Opera | Carlotta / Carlotta's Mother | 1925 |
The Wizard of Oz | Lady Vishuss | 1925 |
A Prince of a King | Queen Claudia | 1923 |
Impossible Catherine | Catherine Kimberly | 1919 |
The Bishop's Emeralds | Hester - Lady Cardew | 1919 |
The Love Auction | Lea Montrose, Mrs. Vanderveer | 1919 |
Buchanan's Wife | Beatrix Buchanan | 1918 |
The Queen of Hearts | Pauline Chraud | 1918 |
The Liar | Sybil Houston | 1918 |
Her Price | Marcia Calhoun | 1918 |
A Daughter of France | Louise de Ciron | 1918 |
Stolen Honor | Virginia Lake | 1918 |
All for a Husband | Henrietta Downs | 1917 |
Thou Shalt Not Steal | Mary Bruce | 1917 |
When False Tongues Speak | Mary Page Walton | 1917 |
Wrath of Love | Roma Winnet | 1917 |
Sister Against Sister | Anne / Katherine | 1917 |
The Bitter Truth | Anne | 1917 |
The War Bride's Secret | Jean MacDougal | 1916 |
Daredevil Kate | Kate | 1916 |
The Tortured Heart | Lucille Darrell | 1916 |
Hypocrisy | Virginia Trent | 1916 |
Blazing Love | Margaret Walsh | 1916 |
The Hunted Woman | Joanne Fitzhugh | 1916 |
Thou Art the Man | Emily Raynor | 1916 |
The Turn of the Road | Marcia Wilbur | 1915 |
The Stain | Stevens' Daughter | 1914 |
Producer Filmography
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