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Virginia Cherrill

Virginia Cherrill

Actor Apr 12 (died age 88) Carthage, Illinois, USA 1928–2021 (93 year career)
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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 wh…

Known For

City Lights
Film

City Lights

A Blind Girl
Becoming Cary Grant
Film

Becoming Cary Grant

Self (archive footage)
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Film

The Real Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)
Unknown Chaplin
Film

Unknown Chaplin

Self
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Film

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

archive footage
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Film

Cary Grant: A Class Apart

Self (archive footage)
The Brat
Film

The Brat

Angela
Late Extra
Film

Late Extra

Janet Graham

Filmography