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Motion Picture News, New York, November 29, 1930.

Virginia Cherrill

      Virginia Cherrill sat down at the table and got up with

a career. Which is a good trick if you can do it.

      Her history is unique in that Broadway has just hailed her simultaneously in talking and non-talking roles.

      Virginia, with no screen experience, met Charlie Chaplin

at a dinner party. Her beauty whetted his appetite and

her charm appealed to him as an adornment which pictures

need. He was seeking a feminine lead for „City Lights.“

She made a test and made the grade.

      Before Chaplin‘s picture was released, Virginia had

completed „Girls Demand Excitement“ for Fox. Broadway hailed

the new screen personality twice in the same week. (...)

      Nineteenth of a Series of Fox Screen Personalities

      FOX

(...) Ad, Variety, April 1, 1931

& VIRGINIA CHERRILL SIGNED BY FOX FILMS

      Virginia Cherrill, leading lady opposite Charles Chaplin

in „City Lights,“ is back where she started in Hollywood

on the Fox Films lot. This time Miss Cherrill is at Movietone

City as a featured player under a new long term contract.

      Miss Cherrill‘s first assignment as a Fox contract player

is to a part opposite Frank Albertson in a picture

of youth, as yet untitled, to be directed by Seymour Felix.

(...) Exhibitors Daily Review and Motion Pictures

Today, Nov. 11, 1930

& CHARLIE CHAPLIN is about ready to throw down

the gauntlet to the talkie champions.

(...) New Movie, Dec. 1930

& Virginia Cherrill, Chaplin‘s leading lady now

with Fox is recuperating from a severe throat ailment.

(...) Motion Picture News, Dec. 20, 1930

„A featured player at Fox“

Editorial content. „Fox Signs Chaplin Lead

      Hollywood – After completing work opposite

Charlie Chaplin in City Lights, Virginia Cherrill has been

signed as a featured player at Fox.“

     The world premiere of City Lights takes place in Los Angeles

      January 30, 1931 at the Los Angeles Theatre.

      Los Angeles Theatre, 615 South Broadway (between

      6th and 7th Streets), Los Angeles.

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