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