Virginia Cherrill
Born in Carthage, Illinois, USA — Apr 12 1908• Died Nov 14 1996
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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…
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Virginia Cherrill's Credits
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City Lights
A Blind Girl
Unknown Chaplin
Self
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
The Brat
Angela
The Nuisance
Miss Rutherford
Fast Workers
Virginia
Late Extra
Janet Graham
Delicious
Diana Van Bergh
The Air Circus
Extra (uncredited)
Becoming Cary Grant
Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Barbara Winterslip
He Couldn't Take It
Eleanor Rogers
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
archive footage
What Price Crime
Sandra Worthington
Troubled Waters
June Elkhardt
White Heat
Lucille Cheney
Girls Demand Excitement
Joan Madison
Ladies Must Love
Bill’s Society Fiancee