Virginia Grey
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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
Unconquered (1947)
as Diana
Airport (1970)
as Mrs. Schultz
Fighting Lawman (1953)
as Raquel Jackson
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Women (1939)
as Pat
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
as Roseanne Fraden
Pacific Paradise (1937)
as Woman Kissing Naval Officer (uncredited)
Another Thin Man (1939)
as Lois MacFay
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
as Alida Anderson
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
as Estelle Hohengarten
Back Street (1961)
as Janey nee Smith
Madame X (1966)
as Mimsy
The Shopworn Angel (1938)
as Chorus Girl #1
Rosalie (1937)
as Mary Callahan
Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
as Rita Dane
The Last Command (1955)
as Mrs. Dickinson
Crime of Passion (1956)
as Sara Alidas
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
as Connie Beach
Blonde Inspiration (1941)
as Margie Blake, Phil's Secretary
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
as Camille Quinlaw
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
as Edna Van Dyke
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
as Lisbeth Flood
Grissly's Millions (1945)
as Katherine Palmor Bentley
Men in Her Diary (1945)
as Diana Lee
Unknown Island (1948)
as Carole Lane
The Big Store (1941)
as Joan Sutton
House of Horrors (1946)
as Joan Medford
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
as Virginia Grey
Palmy Days (1931)
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Idiot's Delight (1939)
as Shirley Laughlin
The Restless Years (1958)
as Miss Robson
The Naked Kiss (1964)
as Candy
Dames (1934)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Flirtation Walk (1934)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
So This Is New York (1948)
as Ella Finch
Broadway Serenade (1939)
as Pearl
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
as 'Fran' Post
The Threat (1949)
as Carol
Our Relations (1936)
as Pirate's Club Customer (uncredited)
Love Has Many Faces (1965)
as Irene Talbot
Highway 301 (1950)
as Mary Simms
Jeanne Eagels (1957)
as Elsie Desmond
Test Pilot (1938)
as Sarah
Thunder Afloat (1939)
as Susan Thorson
The Green Fog (2018)
Actor
The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975)
as Landlady
Dramatic School (1938)
as Simone
Target Earth (1954)
as Vicki Harris
Rosie! (1967)
as Mrs. Peters
Grand Central Murder (1942)
as Sue 'Butch' Custer
Secrets (1933)
as Audrey Carlton as a Child (uncredited)
Portrait in Black (1960)
as Miss Lee
Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
as Hazel Boyd
The Romance of Celluloid (1937)
as Self
The Great Gatsby (1958)
as Myrtle Wilson
Slaughter Trail (1951)
as Lorabelle Larkin
Black Zoo (1963)
as Jenny Brooks
Tammy Tell Me True (1961)
as Miss Jenks
The Golden Fleecing (1940)
as Lila Hanley
A Perilous Journey (1953)
as Abby
Smooth as Silk (1946)
as Paula Marlowe
The Eternal Sea (1955)
as Dorothy Buracker
Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948)
as Ann Loring
Accused of Murder (1956)
as Sandra Lamoreaux
Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
as Jane Wilson
The Hardys Ride High (1939)
as Consuela MacNish
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
Heart to Heart (1928)
as Hazel Boyd
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
as Evangeline 'Eva' St. Clare
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill (1950)
as Janet Smedley Adams
Washington Melodrama (1941)
as Teddy Carlyle
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)
as Self - Actress
Ladies in Distress (1938)
as Sally
Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
as Girl with Henry (Uncredited)
Miraculous Journey (1948)
as Patricia
Jungle Jim (1948)
as Dr. Hilary Parker
Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)
as Selma Willis
The Michigan Kid (1928)
as Rose, as a child
Strangers in the Night (1944)
as Dr. Leslie Ross
Captain Scarface (1953)
as Elsa
Three Desperate Men (1951)
as Laura Brock
Idaho (1943)
as Terry
Wyoming (1947)
as Lila Regan
Tish (1942)
as Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands
The Forty-Niners (1954)
as Stella Walker
Bad Guy (1937)
as Kitty Ryan
The Captain is a Lady (1940)
as Mary Peabody
Swamp Fire (1946)
as Janet Hilton
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938)
as Virginia Mason
Hullabaloo (1940)
as Laura Merriweather
Leather Gloves (1948)
as Jane Gilbert
Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)
as Patricia Casey
Violets in Spring (1936)
as Mary Jones
Desert Pursuit (1952)
as Mary Smith
Secret Valley (1937)
as Joan Carlo
Glamour Girl (1948)
as Lorraine Royle
Mexican Hayride (1948)
as Mary / Montana
Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938)
as June
Keeping Company (1940)
as Anastasia Atherton
Bells of Capistrano (1942)
as Jennifer Benton
Old Hutch (1936)
as Ethel
Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
as Madge
Blonde Ransom (1945)
as Vicki Morrison
Secrets of the Underground (1942)
as Terry Parker
The Canary Comes Across (1938)
as Ann Clayton