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Virginia Cherrill

Virginia Cherrill
  • Name: Virginia Cherrill
  • Birthday: 1908-04-12
  • Place of birth: Carthage, Illinois, USA
  • Popularity: 0.623
Biography: ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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

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Title Release date
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