
Virginia Cherrill
Acting
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Acting Credits
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
A Blind Girl

The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)

Unknown Chaplin
Self

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
archive footage

Becoming Cary Grant
Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Barbara Winterslip

He Couldn't Take It
Eleanor Rogers

Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Self (archive footage)
Filmography

The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
as Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2020
as archive footage

Becoming Cary Grant
2017
as Self (archive footage)

Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004
as Self (archive footage)

Unknown Chaplin
1983
as Self
Troubled Waters
1936
as June Elkhardt

What Price Crime
1935
as Sandra Worthington

Late Extra
1935
as Janet Graham

White Heat
1934
as Lucille Cheney

The Nuisance
1933
as Miss Rutherford

Fast Workers
1933
as Virginia

He Couldn't Take It
1933
as Eleanor Rogers

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
1933
as Barbara Winterslip

Ladies Must Love
1933
as Bill’s Society Fiancee

City Lights
1931
as A Blind Girl

The Brat
1931
as Angela

Girls Demand Excitement
1931
as Joan Madison

Delicious
1931
as Diana Van Bergh

The Air Circus
1928
as Extra (uncredited)