Virginia Pearson

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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.

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