Virginia Davis
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Virginia Davis(-McGhee) (born December 31, 1918, in Kansas City, Missouri, USA) was an American movie actor.
[edit] Child star
She began working for Walt Disney's Laugh-O-Gram Films as a four year old model in the summer of 1924. Virginia Davis was hired to act in a film called Alice's Wonderland, combining live action with animation. This film initiated a series known as the Alice Comedies, or "Alice In Cartoonland", with later films. In April 1924 Davis' residence was at the La Brea Apartments in Hollywood, California.
Later, she did voice testing for Snow White in the feature film as well as some of the little boys' voices in Pinocchio.
Davis played the role of Resi in The Vienese Medley, a production of First National Pictures, filmed in 1925. The film's director, Curt Rohfeld, remarked that Davis has the technique of a finished artist, the unusual ability to follow direction and the disposition of an angel-not once during the picture was it necessary for me to explain any angle twice, and with all of her mature understanding, the youthful charm still remains, making a rare and appreciated combination. While filming The Vienese Medley Davis was induced by Harry Carey to sign a contract. The two actors worked together in The Man From Red Gulch (1925).
In December 1929 Davis was in the cast of Blue Bird at the Pasadena Playhouse. The fairy play included Janet Horning, a child actress who was only two years old. The included one hundred and fifty children.
Davis gave up acting after the Alice films concluded with Alice In The Jungle (1925). By 1934 she was performing as a dancer. She had an uncredited role as a dancer in College Holiday (1936).
[edit] References
- Los Angeles Times, New Members of Players' Club, April 20, 1924, Page J3.
- Los Angeles Times, Older Sisters' Art Emulated, August 23, 1925, Page 20.
- Los Angeles Times, Tiny Actress In Blue Bird, December 29, 1929, Page 20.
- Los Angeles Times, Around And About In Hollywood, March 24, 1934, Page 7.
