Virginia Valli: Hitchcock's First Star
A few jottings on Virginia Valli (Virginia McSweeney, 1895-1968), a star of the silent era and the first couple of years of talkies. Today she is most notable for co-starring with Carmelita Geraghty in Alfred Hitchcock's first feature The Pleasure Garden (1926), though she was already a major star at the time. Valli was from […]