
Virginia Cherrill
Acting
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 when she went to Hollywood for a visit and met Charlie Chaplin when he sat next to her at a boxing mat…
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City Lights
1931 · Movie

The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021 · Movie

Unknown Chaplin
1983 · TV

Becoming Cary Grant
2017 · Movie

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2020 · Movie

Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004 · Movie

The Brat
1931 · Movie

Girls Demand Excitement
1931 · Movie

The Air Circus
1928 · Movie

He Couldn't Take It
1933 · Movie

Fast Workers
1933 · Movie

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
1933 · Movie