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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.
1932
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1931
as Marie Randeau
1929
as Mrs. van Smythe
1928
as Mrs. Wright
1928
as Mrs. Telfer
1928
as Mary
1927
1927
1926
as Madame Carlton
1926
as The Wife (uncredited)
1926
as Millie Burke
1926
as Janet Thornwall
1925
as Mrs. Beverly Fontaine
1925
as Carlotta
1925
as Lady Vishuss
1919
as Catherine Kimberly
1918
as Beatrix Buchanan
1918
as Marcia Calhoun
1918
as Louise de Ciron
1917
as The Princess Sylvia
1916
as Kate
1916
as Barbara Lawrence
1916
1914
as Stevens' Daughter