
Acting
Born March 7, 1886 · 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 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.

Back Street
1932

The Primrose Path
1931

Smilin' Guns
1929

The Power of Silence
1928

The Actress
1928

What Price Beauty?
1928

Driven from Home
1927
Lucky Fool
1927

Atta Boy
1926

Mum's the Word
1926

Silence
1926

Lightning Hutch
1926

The Taxi Mystery
1926

The Red Kimona
1925

The Phantom of the Opera
1925

The Wizard of Oz
1925

A Prince of a King
1923

Wildness of Youth
1922

Impossible Catherine
1919

The Bishop's Emeralds
1919

The Love Auction
1919

Buchanan's Wife
1918

The Queen of Hearts
1918

Her Price
1918

The Firebrand
1918

A Daughter of France
1918

Stolen Honor
1918

All for a Husband
1917

Thou Shalt Not Steal
1917

When False Tongues Speak
1917

Wrath of Love
1917

A Royal Romance
1917

Sister Against Sister
1917

The War Bride's Secret
1916

Daredevil Kate
1916

Writing on the Wall
1916
The Kiss of a Vampire
1916

The Stain
1914