People
Virginia Cherrill
Biography:
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Virginia Cherrill (April 12, 1908 - November 14, 1996) was an American actress best known for her role as the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931). She married an English earl in the 1940s, and is also known as Virginia Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey. Virginia Cherrill was born on a farm in rural Carthage, Illinois, to James E. and Blanche (née Wilcox) Cherrill. She was a Chicago society girl with no thoughts of a film career when she went to Hollywood for a visit and met Charlie Chaplin when he sat next to her at a boxing match. He had failed to find the girl he wanted for his film but decided she would do and cast her... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Becoming Cary Grant as Self (archive footage) | 2017-05-23 |
Cary Grant: A Class Apart as Self (archive footage) | 2004-06-01 |
Troubled Waters as June Elkhardt | 1936-02-01 |
Late Extra as Janet Graham | 1935-11-19 |
What Price Crime as Sandra Worthington | 1935-05-27 |
White Heat as Lucille Cheney | 1934-12-30 |
He Couldn't Take It as Eleanor Rogers | 1933-12-15 |
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case as Barbara Winterslip | 1933-09-14 |
The Nuisance as Miss Rutherford | 1933-06-03 |
Fast Workers as Virginia | 1933-03-10 |
Delicious as Diana Van Bergh | 1931-12-27 |
The Brat as Angela | 1931-08-23 |
Girls Demand Excitement as Joan Madison | 1931-02-08 |
City Lights as A Blind Girl | 1931-02-06 |
The Air Circus as Extra (uncredited) | 1928-09-29 |