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- Birth nameVirginia Belle Pearson
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Virginia Pearson was born on March 7, 1886 in Anchorage, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Impossible Catherine (1919), A Daughter of France (1918) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). She was married to Sheldon Lewis. She died on June 6, 1958 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- SpouseSheldon Lewis(April 1911 - May 7, 1958) (his death)
- In her silent heyday, this dark-eyed beauty was known as "the screen's heretic" and reigned along with Theda Bara, Louise Glaum and Valeska Suratt as Hollywood's most notorious vamps.
- She went out of style after WWI and by 1924 had to declare bankruptcy. Thereafter she was reduced to extra parts and was forced to live with her husband, former actor Sheldon Lewis, in a small Hollywood Hotel room.
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