Virginia Bruce
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia Bruce (September 29, 1910 – February 24, 1982) was an American actress and singer. Born Helen Virginia Briggs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1928, she moved with her family to Los Angeles intending to enroll in the University of California, Los Angeles when a friendly wager sent her seeking film work. She got it as an extra in Why Bring That Up?. In 1930 she appeared on Broadway in the musical Smiles, followed by America's Sweetheart in 1931. She returned to Hollywood in 1932, where on August 10, 1932, she married John Gilbert, her co-star in the film Downstairs. She retired briefly after the birth of their daughter Susan Ann Gilbert. The couple divorced in 1934, and Virginia returned to a hectic schedule of film appearances. Gilbert died two years later in 1936. Bruce introduced the Cole Porter standard "I've Got You Under My Skin" in the film Born to Dance and co-starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical The Great Ziegfeld. One of her final film appearances was in Strangers When We Meet. In 1949, Bruce starred in a daily 30-minute radio drama. Make Believe Town was an afternoon program on CBS. Bruce married her second husband, film director J. Walter Ruben, in 1937, making the Wallace Beery western The Bad Man of Brimstone with him that year. Together they had a son named Christopher (b. 1941), before Ruben's death in 1942. In 1946, Bruce married Ali Ipar. They divorced in 1951 in order for him to receive a commission in the Turkish Military (which forbade promotions of men married to foreigners), but remarried in 1952 before divorcing again in 1964. Bruce died of cancer on February 24, 1982, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She was 71.
Known for
Credits
Society Doctor (1935)
as Madge
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Careful, Soft Shoulders (1942)
as Connie Mathers
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
as Mrs. Wagner
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
as Audrey Dane
Action in Arabia (1944)
as Yvonne
The Plague (1954)
as Nurse
Paramount on Parade (1930)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
as Jenny
The Love Parade (1929)
as Lady-in-Waiting
The Invisible Woman (1940)
as Kitty Carroll
Land of Liberty (1939)
as (archive footage)
Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Times Square Lady (1935)
as Toni Bradley
Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
as Self
The Murder Man (1935)
as Mary Shannon
Brazil (1944)
as Nicky Henderson
Pointed Heels (1929)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
Raffles (1930)
as Gwen's Friend (uncredited)
Pardon My Sarong (1942)
as Joan Marshall
Whoopee! (1930)
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
as Lorraine de Grissac
A Dream Comes True (1935)
as Herself (uncredited)
Hired Wife (1940)
as Phyllis Walden
Dangerous Corner (1934)
as Ann Beale
Downstairs (1932)
as Anna
The Garden Murder Case (1936)
as Zalia Graem
Kongo (1932)
as Ann
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
as Jenny Lind
The First Hundred Years (1938)
as Lynn Conway
Butch Minds the Baby (1942)
as Susie O'Neill
There Goes My Heart (1938)
as Joan Butterfield
Winner Take All (1932)
as Joan Gibson
The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
as Joan Reed
Love, Honor and Goodbye (1945)
as Roberta Baxter
Born to Dance (1936)
as Lucy James
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
as Self
Hollywood Hobbies (1939)
as Self (uncredited)
Society Lawyer (1939)
as Pat Abbott
Between Two Women (1937)
as Patricia Sloan
The River of Romance (1929)
as Southern Belle
Jane Eyre (1934)
as Jane Eyre
Let 'em Have It (1935)
as Eleanor Spencer
The Miracle Man (1932)
as Margaret Thornton
Stronger Than Desire (1939)
as Elizabeth Flagg
Shadow of Doubt (1935)
as Trenna
Yellow Jack (1938)
as Frances Blake
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
as Nurse Stephens
Let Freedom Ring (1939)
as Maggie Adams
The Reluctant Bride (1955)
as Laura Weeks
Woman Against Woman (1938)
as Maris Kent
The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937)
as Loretta Douglas
There's That Woman Again (1938)
as Sally Reardon
Escapade (1935)
as Gerta
Only the Brave (1930)
as Elizabeth
Flight Angels (1940)
as Mary Norvell
Sky Bride (1932)
as Ruth Dunning
The Social Lion (1930)
as Society Girl
State Department: File 649 (1949)
as Marge
Here Comes the Band (1935)
as Margaret
Safety in Numbers (1930)
as Alma McGregor
Women of Glamour (1937)
as Gloria Hudson
Adventure in Washington (1941)
as Jane Scott
Let's Go Native (1930)
as Wendell Sr.'s Secretary (uncredited)
Woman Trap (1929)
as Nurse
Metropolitan (1935)
as Anne Merrill
Hard to Get (1929)
as Young Woman (uncredited)
Fugitives (1929)
as Extra (uncredited)
Lilies of the Field (1930)
as Doris
When Love Is Young (1937)
as Wanda Werner
Slightly Scarlet (1930)
as Enid Corbett
Follow Thru (1930)
as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935)
as Virginia Bruce (uncredited)
Young Eagles (1930)
as Florence Welford