Trivia

Her last movie was "The Scarlet Lady" (28) where she ironically played a Russian revolutionist. It nearly seems that the life cycle had been closed with it because shortly after the movie she fell ill with the then raging influenza and died at the age of only 29. She was not able to witness first night of her last movie.

She was in a Siberian prison, from which she escaped and made her way across Asia and onto Hollywood. The rest of her family were killed in the Russian Civil War.

Zimina served with the Women's Battalion of Death for three years, having been in a Siberian prison, from which she escaped, made her way across Asia and onto Hollywood. Her family was killed in the Russian Revolution. Her mother was a famous stage actress in Moscow.

She was born in Russia as the daughter of a famous stage actress.

During the Russian revolution in 1917 she lost her whole family who were murdered.

Superstitous contemporaries could adjudge the movie "The Scarlet Lady" (28) an ominous aura because not only Valentina Zimina but also some other involved persons died prematurely in the next ten years. The director Alan Crossland died at the age of 41 in 1936 due to a road accident, the leading actress Lya de Putti died at the age of 34 in 1931 due to a pneumonia she contracted after an operation because she swallowed a chicken bone, the leading actor Warner Oland died at the age of 58 in 1938 due to a bronchial pneumonia because of alcohol abuse and the actor Otto Matieson dies at the age of 38 in 1932.