Virginia Grey
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Virginia Grey (March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004) was an American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was Gloria Swanson. Grey debuted at the age of ten in the silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) as Little Eva. She continued acting for a few more years, but then left movies in order to finish her education. Grey returned to films in the 1930s with bit parts and extra work, but she eventually signed a contract with MGM and appeared in such movies as Another Thin Man, Hullabaloo and The Big Store. She played Consuela McNish in The Hardys Ride High (1939) with Mickey Rooney. She left MGM in 1942, and signed with several different studios over the years, working steadily. During the 1950s and 1960s, producer Ross Hunter frequently included Grey in his popular soap melodramas, such as All That Heaven Allows, Back Street and Madame X. She had an on again/off again relationship with Clark Gable in the 1940s. After his wife Carole Lombard died and he returned from military service, Clark and Virginia were often seen at restaurants and nightclubs together. Many, including Virginia herself, expected him to marry her. The tabloids were all expecting the wedding announcement. It was a great surprise when he hastily married Lady Sylvia Ashley in 1949. Virginia was heartbroken. They divorced in 1952, but much to Virginia's dismay their brief romance was never rekindled. Her friends say that her hoping and waiting for Clark was the reason she never married. She was a regular on television in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing on Playhouse 90, General Electric Theater, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Your Show of Shows, Wagon Train, Bonanza, Marcus Welby, M.D., Love, American Style, Burke's Law, The Virginian, Peter Gunn and many others. She was portrayed by Anna Torv in the HBO Mini-series The Pacific. Description above from the Wikipedia article Virginia Grey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Airport (1970)
as Mrs. Schultz
Unconquered (1947)
as Diana
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
as Alida Anderson
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
as Roseanne Fraden
The Women (1939)
as Pat
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Last Command (1955)
as Mrs. Dickinson
The Big Store (1941)
as Joan Sutton
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
as Connie Beach
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
as Camille Quinlaw
Another Thin Man (1939)
as Lois MacFay
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
as Estelle Hohengarten
Crime of Passion (1956)
as Sara Alidas
Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
as Rita Dane
The Naked Kiss (1964)
as Candy
Portrait in Black (1960)
as Miss Lee
Madame X (1966)
as Mimsy
Love Has Many Faces (1965)
as Irene Talbot
Tammy Tell Me True (1961)
as Miss Jenks
So This Is New York (1948)
as Ella Finch
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
as Lisbeth Flood
Back Street (1961)
as Janey nee Smith
Idiot's Delight (1939)
as Shirley Laughlin
Rosalie (1937)
as Mary Callahan
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)
as Self - Actress
Fighting Lawman (1953)
as Raquel Jackson
The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975)
as Landlady
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
as Virginia Grey
Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
as Girl with Henry (Uncredited)
Test Pilot (1938)
as Sarah
The Eternal Sea (1955)
as Dorothy Buracker
Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)
as Selma Willis
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
as Evangeline 'Eva' St. Clare
Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
as Jane Wilson
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
Jeanne Eagels (1957)
as Elsie Desmond
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
as 'Fran' Post
The Shopworn Angel (1938)
as Chorus Girl #1
Palmy Days (1931)
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Our Relations (1936)
as Pirate's Club Customer (uncredited)
Broadway Serenade (1939)
as Pearl
The Romance of Celluloid (1937)
as Self
Men in Her Diary (1945)
as Diana Lee
The Captain is a Lady (1940)
as Mary Peabody
Strangers in the Night (1944)
as Dr. Leslie Ross
Dames (1934)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Blonde Inspiration (1941)
as Margie Blake, Phil's Secretary
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938)
as Virginia Mason
Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
as Madge
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
as Edna Van Dyke
Flirtation Walk (1934)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948)
as Ann Loring
Grissly's Millions (1945)
as Katherine Palmor Bentley
The Hardys Ride High (1939)
as Consuela MacNish
House of Horrors (1946)
as Joan Medford
The Golden Fleecing (1940)
as Lila Hanley
A Perilous Journey (1953)
as Abby
Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)
as Patricia Casey
Highway 301 (1950)
as Mary Simms
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill (1950)
as Janet Smedley Adams
Black Zoo (1963)
as Jenny Brooks
Accused of Murder (1956)
as Sandra Lamoreaux
Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938)
as June
The Canary Comes Across (1938)
as Ann Clayton
The Great Gatsby (1958)
as Myrtle Wilson
Grand Central Murder (1942)
as Sue 'Butch' Custer
Secrets of the Underground (1942)
as Terry Parker
Pacific Paradise (1937)
as Woman Kissing Naval Officer (uncredited)
Ladies in Distress (1938)
as Sally
Thunder Afloat (1939)
as Susan Thorson
The Threat (1949)
as Carol
The Restless Years (1958)
as Miss Robson
Secrets (1933)
as Audrey Carlton as a Child (uncredited)
Target Earth (1954)
as Vicki Harris
Mexican Hayride (1948)
as Mary / Montana
Rosie! (1967)
as Mrs. Peters
Unknown Island (1948)
as Carole Lane
Slaughter Trail (1951)
as Lorabelle Larkin
The Forty-Niners (1954)
as Stella Walker
The Green Fog (2018)
Actor
Leather Gloves (1948)
as Jane Gilbert
Hullabaloo (1940)
as Laura Merriweather
Dramatic School (1938)
as Simone
Washington Melodrama (1941)
as Teddy Carlyle
Smooth as Silk (1946)
as Paula Marlowe
Desert Pursuit (1952)
as Mary Smith
Idaho (1943)
as Terry
Captain Scarface (1953)
as Elsa
Jungle Jim (1948)
as Dr. Hilary Parker
Keeping Company (1940)
as Anastasia Atherton
Bad Guy (1937)
as Kitty Ryan
Old Hutch (1936)
as Ethel
Secret Valley (1937)
as Joan Carlo
Three Desperate Men (1951)
as Laura Brock
The Michigan Kid (1928)
as Rose, as a child
Glamour Girl (1948)
as Lorraine Royle
Swamp Fire (1946)
as Janet Hilton
Tish (1942)
as Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands
Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
as Hazel Boyd
Wyoming (1947)
as Lila Regan
Bells of Capistrano (1942)
as Jennifer Benton
Miraculous Journey (1948)
as Patricia
Heart to Heart (1928)
as Hazel Boyd
Blonde Ransom (1945)
as Vicki Morrison
Violets in Spring (1936)
as Mary Jones